The best American essays of the century / Joyce Carol Oates, editor ; Robert Atwan, coeditor ; with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates.

Incluye bibliografía.

_ Foreword / by Robert Atwan -- Introduction / by Joyce Carol Oates -- Corn-pone opinions / Mark Twain -- Of the coming of John / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Law of acceleration / Henry Adams -- Stickeen / John Muir -- Moral equivalent of war / William James -- Handicapped / Randolph Bourne -- Coatesville / John Jay Chapman -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 --

_ 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 -- 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 -- Disposable rocket / John Updike -- hey all just went away / Joyce Carol Oates -- Graven images / Saul Bellow -- Biographical notes -- Appendix: Notable twentieth-century American literary nonfiction.

Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century.