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The Best American Essays of the Century Book

The Best American Essays of the Century
The Best American Essays of the Century, This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group o, The Best American Essays of the Century has a rating of 3.96 stars
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  • The Best American Essays of the Century
  • Written by author Joyce Carol Oates
  • Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2001
  • This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group o
  • This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a g
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Forewordx
Introductionxvii
1901: Corn-pone Opinions1
1903: Of the Coming of John6
1906: A Law of Acceleration20
1909: Stickeen28
1910: The Moral Equivalent of War45
1911: The Handicapped57
1912: Coatesville71
1916: The Devil Baby at Hull-House75
1919: Tradition and the Individual Talent90
1923: Pamplona in July98
1925: The Hills of Zion107
1928: How It Feels to Be Colored Me114
1933: The Old Stone House118
1935: What Are Master-pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them131
1936: The Crack-Up139
1937: Sex Ex Machina153
1937: The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch159
1938: Knoxville: Summer of 1915171
1939: The Figure a Poem Makes176
1941: Once More to the Lake179
1944: Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away186
1949: Bop190
1950: The Future Is Now193
1953: Artists in Uniform199
1955: The Marginal World214
1955: Notes of a Native Son220
1956: The Brown Wasps239
1957: A Sweet Devouring246
1961: A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails252
1963: Letter from Birmingham Jail263
1964: Putting Daddy On280
1964: Notes on "Camp"288
1966: Perfect Past303
1967: The Way to Rainy Mountain313
1968: The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King319
1969: Illumination Rounds327
1970: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings342
1971: The Lives of a Cell358
1972: The Search for Marvin Gardens361
1972: The Doomed in Their Sinking373
1975: No Name Woman383
1975: Looking for Zora395
1977: Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying412
1979: The White Album421
1980: Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood447
1981: The Solace of Open Spaces467
1982: Total Eclipse477
1982: A Drugstore in Winter490
1987: Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of All497
1988: Heaven and Nature507
1989: The Creation Myths of Cooperstown520
1990: Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant532
1993: The Disposable Rocket549
1995: They All Just Went Away553
1997: Graven Images564
Biographical Notes569
AppendixNotable Twentieth-Century American Literary Nonfiction591


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