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The best American essays of the century, Joyce Carol Oates, editor ; Robert Atwan, coeditor ; with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
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- Summary
- Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxviii, 596 pages
- Contents
-
- Law of acceleration
- Drugstore in winter
- Cynthia Ozick
- Okinawa : the bloodiest battle of all
- William Manchester
- Heaven and nature
- Edward Hoagland
- Creation myths of Cooperstown
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Life with daughters : watching the Miss America Pageant
- Gerald Early
- Henry Adams
- Disposable rocket
- John Updike
- They all just went away
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Graven images
- Saul Bellow
- Biographical notes
- Appendix: Notable twentieth-century American literary nonfiction
- Stickeen
- John Muir
- Moral equivalent of war
- William James
- Handicapped
- Randolph Bourne
- Coatesville
- John Jay Chapman
- Foreword
- Devil baby at Hull-house
- Jane Addams
- Tradition and the individual talent
- T.S. Eliot
- Pamplona in July
- Ernest Hemingway
- Hills of Zion
- H.L. Mencken
- How it feels to be colored me
- Zora Neale Hurston
- by Robert Atwan
- Old stone house
- Edmund Wilson
- What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them
- Gertrude Stein
- Crack-up
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Sex Ex Machina
- James Thurber
- Ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch
- Richard Wright
- Introduction
- Knoxville: Summer of 1915
- James Agee
- Figure a poem makes
- Robert Frost
- Once more to the lake
- E.B. White
- Insert flap "A" and throw away
- S.J. Perelman
- Bop
- Langston Hughes
- by Joyce Carol Oates
- Future is now
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Artists in uniform
- Mary McCarthy
- Marginal world
- Rachel Carson
- Notes of a native son
- James Baldwin
- Brown wasps
- Loren Eiseley
- Corn-pone opinions
- Sweet devouring
- Eudora Welty
- Hundred thousand straightened nails
- Donald Hall
- Letter from Birmingham jail
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Putting daddy on
- Tom Wolfe
- Notes on "Camp"
- Susan Sontag
- Mark Twain
- Perfect past
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Way to Rainy Mountain
- N. Scott Momaday
- Apotheosis of Martin Luther King
- Elizabeth Hardwick
- Illumination rounds
- Michael Herr
- I know why the caged bird sings
- Maya Angelou
- Of the coming of John
- Lives of a cell
- Lewis Thomas
- Search for Marvin Gardens
- John McPhee
- Doomed in their sinking
- William H. Gass
- No name woman
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Looking for Zora
- Alice Walker
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Women and honor : some notes on lying
- Adrienne Rich
- White album
- Joan Didion
- Aria : a memoir of a bilingual childhood
- Richard Rodriguez
- Solace of open spaces
- Gretel Ehrlich
- Total eclipse
- Annie Dillard
- Isbn
- 9780618043705
- Label
- The best American essays of the century
- Title
- The best American essays of the century
- Statement of responsibility
- Joyce Carol Oates, editor ; Robert Atwan, coeditor ; with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century
- Additional physical form
- Also issued online.
- Cataloging source
- CO2
- Dewey number
- 814.508
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
-
- PS688
- PS688
- LC item number
-
- .B478 2000
- .B482 2000
- Literary form
- essays
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1938-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Atwan, Robert
- Series statement
- Best American series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- American essays
- American essays
- American essays
- Essays
- American essays
- Label
- The best American essays of the century, Joyce Carol Oates, editor ; Robert Atwan, coeditor ; with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
- Link
- http://digitool.hbz-nrw.de:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=2399195&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-590)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Law of acceleration
- Drugstore in winter
- Cynthia Ozick
- Okinawa : the bloodiest battle of all
- William Manchester
- Heaven and nature
- Edward Hoagland
- Creation myths of Cooperstown
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Life with daughters : watching the Miss America Pageant
- Gerald Early
- Henry Adams
- Disposable rocket
- John Updike
- They all just went away
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Graven images
- Saul Bellow
- Biographical notes
- Appendix: Notable twentieth-century American literary nonfiction
- Stickeen
- John Muir
- Moral equivalent of war
- William James
- Handicapped
- Randolph Bourne
- Coatesville
- John Jay Chapman
- Foreword
- Devil baby at Hull-house
- Jane Addams
- Tradition and the individual talent
- T.S. Eliot
- Pamplona in July
- Ernest Hemingway
- Hills of Zion
- H.L. Mencken
- How it feels to be colored me
- Zora Neale Hurston
- by Robert Atwan
- Old stone house
- Edmund Wilson
- What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them
- Gertrude Stein
- Crack-up
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Sex Ex Machina
- James Thurber
- Ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch
- Richard Wright
- Introduction
- Knoxville: Summer of 1915
- James Agee
- Figure a poem makes
- Robert Frost
- Once more to the lake
- E.B. White
- Insert flap "A" and throw away
- S.J. Perelman
- Bop
- Langston Hughes
- by Joyce Carol Oates
- Future is now
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Artists in uniform
- Mary McCarthy
- Marginal world
- Rachel Carson
- Notes of a native son
- James Baldwin
- Brown wasps
- Loren Eiseley
- Corn-pone opinions
- Sweet devouring
- Eudora Welty
- Hundred thousand straightened nails
- Donald Hall
- Letter from Birmingham jail
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Putting daddy on
- Tom Wolfe
- Notes on "Camp"
- Susan Sontag
- Mark Twain
- Perfect past
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Way to Rainy Mountain
- N. Scott Momaday
- Apotheosis of Martin Luther King
- Elizabeth Hardwick
- Illumination rounds
- Michael Herr
- I know why the caged bird sings
- Maya Angelou
- Of the coming of John
- Lives of a cell
- Lewis Thomas
- Search for Marvin Gardens
- John McPhee
- Doomed in their sinking
- William H. Gass
- No name woman
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Looking for Zora
- Alice Walker
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Women and honor : some notes on lying
- Adrienne Rich
- White album
- Joan Didion
- Aria : a memoir of a bilingual childhood
- Richard Rodriguez
- Solace of open spaces
- Gretel Ehrlich
- Total eclipse
- Annie Dillard
- Control code
- ocm44945696
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxviii, 596 pages
- Isbn
- 9780618043705
- Lccn
- 95664031
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 9780618155873
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o44945696
- (OCoLC)44945696
- Label
- The best American essays of the century, Joyce Carol Oates, editor ; Robert Atwan, coeditor ; with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
- Link
- http://digitool.hbz-nrw.de:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=2399195&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-590)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Law of acceleration
- Drugstore in winter
- Cynthia Ozick
- Okinawa : the bloodiest battle of all
- William Manchester
- Heaven and nature
- Edward Hoagland
- Creation myths of Cooperstown
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Life with daughters : watching the Miss America Pageant
- Gerald Early
- Henry Adams
- Disposable rocket
- John Updike
- They all just went away
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Graven images
- Saul Bellow
- Biographical notes
- Appendix: Notable twentieth-century American literary nonfiction
- Stickeen
- John Muir
- Moral equivalent of war
- William James
- Handicapped
- Randolph Bourne
- Coatesville
- John Jay Chapman
- Foreword
- Devil baby at Hull-house
- Jane Addams
- Tradition and the individual talent
- T.S. Eliot
- Pamplona in July
- Ernest Hemingway
- Hills of Zion
- H.L. Mencken
- How it feels to be colored me
- Zora Neale Hurston
- by Robert Atwan
- Old stone house
- Edmund Wilson
- What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them
- Gertrude Stein
- Crack-up
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Sex Ex Machina
- James Thurber
- Ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch
- Richard Wright
- Introduction
- Knoxville: Summer of 1915
- James Agee
- Figure a poem makes
- Robert Frost
- Once more to the lake
- E.B. White
- Insert flap "A" and throw away
- S.J. Perelman
- Bop
- Langston Hughes
- by Joyce Carol Oates
- Future is now
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Artists in uniform
- Mary McCarthy
- Marginal world
- Rachel Carson
- Notes of a native son
- James Baldwin
- Brown wasps
- Loren Eiseley
- Corn-pone opinions
- Sweet devouring
- Eudora Welty
- Hundred thousand straightened nails
- Donald Hall
- Letter from Birmingham jail
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Putting daddy on
- Tom Wolfe
- Notes on "Camp"
- Susan Sontag
- Mark Twain
- Perfect past
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Way to Rainy Mountain
- N. Scott Momaday
- Apotheosis of Martin Luther King
- Elizabeth Hardwick
- Illumination rounds
- Michael Herr
- I know why the caged bird sings
- Maya Angelou
- Of the coming of John
- Lives of a cell
- Lewis Thomas
- Search for Marvin Gardens
- John McPhee
- Doomed in their sinking
- William H. Gass
- No name woman
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Looking for Zora
- Alice Walker
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Women and honor : some notes on lying
- Adrienne Rich
- White album
- Joan Didion
- Aria : a memoir of a bilingual childhood
- Richard Rodriguez
- Solace of open spaces
- Gretel Ehrlich
- Total eclipse
- Annie Dillard
- Control code
- ocm44945696
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxviii, 596 pages
- Isbn
- 9780618043705
- Lccn
- 95664031
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 9780618155873
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o44945696
- (OCoLC)44945696
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