Eight Modern Essayists » (6th Edition)

This in-depth collection represents 8 essential twentieth-century essayists, with 3-5 pieces by each author. Included are Virginia Woolf, George Owell, E. B. White, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, James McConkey, Cynthia Ozick, and Alice Walker.

1. Virginia Woolf
The Death of the Moth
Shakespeare's Sister
The Shadow across the Page
Professions for Women
A Sketch of the Past
2. George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant
A Hanging
Marrakech
Politics and the English Language
Why I Write
3. E.B. White
Once More to the Lake
Death of a Pig
On a Florida Key
The Ring of Time
Walden
4. James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son
Stranger in the Village
Equal in Paris
Here Be Dangerous
5. Joan Didion
Goodbye to All That
On Going Home
On Morality
Why I Write
John Wayne: A Love Song
6. James McConkey
A Night Stand
The Bullfrog Pond
Passages Early and Late
A Family Record
7. Cynthia Ozick
Washington Square, 1946
The Seam of the Snail
A Drugstore in Winter
On Permission to Write
8. Alice Walker
Brothers and Sisters
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
Journey to Nine Miles

A Sampler of Essays from Previous Editions
Max Beerbohm, A Relic
E. M. Forster, My Wood
D. H. Lawrence, Adolf
James Thurber, The Dog That Bit People
Edmund Wilson, The Old Stone House
Norman Mailer, Miami Beach
Lewis Thomas, On Natural Death
Paul Fussell, The Boy Scout Handbook
Carol Bly, Getting Tired
Edward Hoagland, The Courage of Turtles