Contents
Bold text indicates a selection new to the Eleventh Edition.
♦ indicates a selection that appears in the Full Edition only.
- Personal Report
- Chang-Rae Lee, Coming Home Again
- Joan Didion, On Going Home
- Wayson Choy, The Ten Thousand Things
- ♦ Wallace Stegner, The Town Dump
- Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving
- Maya Angelou, Graduation
- ♦ Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me
- ♦ John Edgar Wideman, Hoop Roots
- ♦ Bruno Bettelheim, A Victim
- Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple
- Alice Walker, Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
- ♦ Loren Eiseley, The Brown Wasps
- ♦ Gary Soto, The Guardian Angel
- E. B. White, Once More to the Lake
- ♦ Prose Forms: Journals
- Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook
- Dorothy Wordsworth, The Alfoxden Journal 1798
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Journal
- Henry David Thoreau, from Journal
- Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln
- May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude
- Woody Allen, Selections from the Allen Notebooks
- People, Places
- ♦ Thomas Jefferson, George Washington
- ♦ Nathaniel Hawthorne, Abraham Lincoln
- ♦ Tom Wolfe, Yeager
- Toni Morrison, Strangers
- ♦ Virginia Woolf, My Father: Leslie Stephen
- Scott Russell Sanders, Under the Influence
- Annie Dillard, Terwilliger Bunts One
- ♦ Jamaica Kincaid, Sowers and Reapers
- Fatema Mernissi, The Harem Within
- ♦ Judith Ortiz Cofer, More Room
- Margaret Atwood, True North
- Kathleen Norris, The Holy Uses of Gossip
- Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain
- N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
- David Guterson, Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America
- Human Nature
- ♦ Jacob Bronowski, The Reach of Imagination
- William Golding, Thinking as a Hobby
- Isaac Asimov, The Eureka Phenomenon
- ♦ Henry David Thoreau, Observation
- ♦ Paul Theroux, Being a Man
- Harvey Mansfield, The Partial Eclipse of Manliness
- Scott Russell Sanders, Looking at Women
- Anna Quindlen, Between the Sexes, a Great Divide
- Andrew Sullivan, What Is a Homosexual?
- Amy Cunningham, Why Women Smile
- ♦ Malcolm Gladwell, The Sports Taboo
- Elisabeth K¸bler-Ross, On the Fear of Death
- Stephen Jay Gould, Our Allotted Lifetimes
- Cultural Critique
- Anthony Burgess, Is America Falling Apart?
- Adam Goodheart, 9.11.01: The Skyscraper and the Airplane
- ♦ Henry Louis Gates Jr., In the Kitchen
- Sonia Shah, Tight Jeans and Chania Chorris
- John McMurty, Kill ’Em! Crush ’Em! Eat ’Em Raw!
- Jessica Mitford, Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain
- ♦ Witold Rybczynski, Weekend
- ♦ Roland Barthes, Toys
- ♦ Daniel Harris, Light-Bulb Jokes: Charting an Era
- Fred Strebeigh, The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China
- ♦ Betty Rollin, Motherhood: Who Needs It?
- Maggie Helwig, Hunger
- ♦ Gloria Steinem, The Good News Is: These Are Not the Best Years of Your Life
- ♦ James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village
- Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space
- ♦ Shelby Steele, The Recoloring of Campus Life
- Debra Dickerson, Who Shot Johnny?
- ♦ Prose Forms: Op-Eds
- Molly Ivins, Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns
- Brent Staples, Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s
- ♦ Anna Quindlen, Evan’s Two Moms
- ♦ Russell Baker, American Fat
- Binge Drinking
- Henry Wechsler, Charles Deutsch, and George Dowdall, Too Many Colleges Are Still in Denial about Alcohol Abuse
- Jack Hitt, The Battle of the Binge
- ♦ Kenneth A. Bruffee, Binge Drinking as a Substitute for a "Community of Learning"
- Education
- Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read
- Eudora Welty, Clamorous to Learn
- Dionne Brand, Arriving at Desire
- John Holt, How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading
- Caroline Bird, College Is a Waste of Time and Money
- James Thurber, University Days
- William Zinsser, College Pressures
- ♦ Adrienne Rich, Taking Women Students Seriously
- Wayne C. Booth, Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay
- ♦ William G. Perry Jr., Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts
- ♦ Alfred North Whitehead, The Rhythmic Claims of Freedom and Discipline
- Language and Communication
- Gloria Naylor, "Mommy, What Does ’Nigger’ Mean?"
- Maxine Hong Kingston, Tongue-Tied
- Richard Rodriguez, Aria
- ♦ Maria Laurino, Words
- Gloria Anzald™a, How to Tame a Wild Tongue
- John Tierney, Playing the Dozens
- Anne Fadiman, The His’er Problem
- Garrison Keillor, How to Write a Letter and Postcards
- Lewis Thomas, Notes on Punctuation
- ♦ Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller, Period Styles: A Punctuated History
- ♦ Erich Fromm, The Nature of Symbolic Language
- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
- An Album of Styles
- Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Age
- Ben Jonson, from Timber, or Discoveries
- John Donne, No Man Is an Island
- Samuel Johnson, The Pyramids
- ♦ Adam Smith, The Watch and the Watch-Maker
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letter to the Countess of Bute, Lady Montagu’s Daughter
- Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Women
- ♦ John Henry Newman, Knowledge and Virtue
- Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
- Ernest Hemingway, from A Farewell to Arms
- ♦ E. B. White, Progress and Change
- William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Award Speech
- ♦ John Updike, Beer Can
- Jamaica Kincaid, The Ugly Tourist
- Nature and the Environment
- ♦ Rachel Carson, Tides
- Gretel Ehrlich, Spring
- John Muir, A Wind-Storm in the Forests
- Edward Abbey, The Serpents of Paradise
- Alexander Petrunkevitch, The Spider and the Wasp
- ♦ Farley Mowat, The Watcher Watched
- Carl Sagan, The Abstractions of Beasts
- Chief Seattle, Letter to President Pierce, 1855
- Aldo Leopold, Marshland Elegy
- ♦ William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness
- ♦ Joyce Carol Oates, Against Nature
- ♦ Joseph Wood Krutch, The Most Dangerous Predator
- Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women
- Ethics
- Michel de Montaigne, That One Man’s Profit Is Another’s Loss
- ♦ Lord Chesterfield, Letter to His Son
- Mark Twain, Advice to Youth
- ♦ Annette C. Baier, Trust and Its Vulnerabilities
- Jonathan Rauch, In Defense of Prejudice
- Michael Levin, The Case for Torture
- Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights
- ♦ Carl Cohen, The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research
- ♦ Nora Ephron, The Boston Photographs
- ♦ Leigh Turner, The Media and the Ethics of Cloning
- Aldo Leopold, The Land Ethic
- Sallie Tisdale, We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story
- Stephen Jay Gould, The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS
- Paul Fussell, Thank God for the Atom Bomb
- ♦ Prose Forms: Maxims and Morals
- ♦ Benjamin Franklin, from Poor Richard’s Almanack
- ♦ François de La Rochefoucauld, from Maxims
- ♦ William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
- ♦ Ambrose Bierce, from The Devil’s Dictionary
- ♦ Jenny Holzer, Truisms
- ♦ Stuart Moulthrop, Pillars of Wisdom: The Well-Formed Web Site
- ♦ Anonymous, Internet Advice: Understanding Scientific Discourse
- History
- Henry David Thoreau, The Battle of the Ants
- Barbara Tuchman, "This Is the End of the World": The Black Death
- Cherokee Memorials
- Walt Whitman, Death of Abraham Lincoln
- ♦ Paul Collins, 22,000 Seedlings
- ♦ H. Bruce Franklin, From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America’s Wars
- Hannah Arendt, Denmark and the Jews
- Philip Gourevitch, After the Genocide
- ♦ Amitav Ghosh, The Ghosts of Mrs. Ghandhi
- ♦ Frances FitzGerald, Rewriting American History
- ♦ Edward Hallett Carr, The Historian and His Facts
- Politics and Government
- George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Morals of the Prince
- ♦ Thomas Jefferson, Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Jefferson and Others, The Declaration of Independence
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
- ♦ Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
- Carl Becker, Democracy
- E. B. White, Democracy
- ♦ Lani Guinier, Tyranny of the Majority
- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
- ♦ Prose Forms: Spoken Words
- Queen Elizabeth I, Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
- Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream
- William Lloyd Garrison, No Compromise with Slavery
- David McCullough, Recommended Itinerary
- James van Tholen, Surprised by Death
- Science and Technology
- Jacob Bronowski, The Nature of Scientific Reasoning
- ♦ Thomas S. Kuhn, The Route to Normal Science
- Steven Weinberg, Can Science Explain Everything? Anything?
- Henry Wechsler, Andrea Davenport, George Dowdall, Barbara Moeykens, and Sonia Castillo, Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College: A National Survey of Students at 140 Campuses
- ♦ Matt Cartmill, Do Horses Gallop in Their Sleep?: The Problem of Animal Consciousness
- ♦ Sandra Steingraber, Pesticides, Animals, and Humans
- John Hockenberry, The Next Brainiacs
- Melvin Konner, Why the Reckless Survive
- Neil Postman, Virtual Students, Digital Classroom
- Stephen Jay Gould, Darwin’s Middle Road
- Literature, the Arts, and Media
- Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings
- Vladimir Nabokov, Good Readers and Good Writers
- ♦ Northrop Frye, The Motive for Metaphor
- ♦ Robert Frost, Education by Poetry: A Meditative Monologue
- Katha Pollitt, Does a Literary Canon Matter?
- ♦ Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Decolonizing the Mind
- ♦ Adrienne Rich, When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision
- Virginia Woolf, In Search of a Room of One’s Own
- John Updike, Little Lightnings and Moving Along
- Susan Sontag, A Century of Cinema
- Susan Allen Toth, Going to the Movies
- ♦ Richard Taruskin, Text and Act
- Aaron Copland, How We Listen
- ♦ Prose Forms: Fables and Parable
- ♦ Aesop, The Frogs Desiring a King
- Plato, The Allegory of the Cave
- ♦ Jesus, Parables of the Kingdom
- ♦ Zen Parables
- ♦ Jonathan Swift, The Spider and the Bee
- ♦ Mark Twain, The War Prayer
- Philosophy and Religion
- Langston Hughes, Salvation
- Edward Rivera, First Communion
- ♦ James Thurber, The Owl Who Was God
- ♦ Reinhold Niebuhr, Humor and Faith
- ♦ Robert Graves, Mythology
- Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
- Martha Nussbaum, The Idea of World Citizenship in Greek and Roman Antiquity
- Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth
- Annie Dillard, Sight into Insight
- Gilbert Highet, The Mystery of Zen
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism
- ♦ Charles Simic, Reading Philosophy at Night
- Authors
- Permissions Acknowledgments
- Index
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