The Best American Essays of the Century {audio selections, Vol. 1}

by Joyce Carol Oates

Series: The Best American Essays (20th Century), Best American (20th Century)

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For this singular collection, Joyce Carol Oates selected fifty-five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century. Here is a sampling -- twelve unabridged essays -- featuring a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the genre, along with authors reading their own work. Nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS OF THE CENTURY is an outstanding, galvanic collection (Entertainment Weekly).… (more)

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Great essays by Richard Rodriguez on bilingual childhood; John Updike on the male body; Gertrude Stein in masterpieces; Alice Walker, looking for Zora; MLK - letter from Birmingham; lots of others

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This audiobook contains only 12 of the 55 essays from the original work; see Book Description CK below. Please do not combine with the print editions.

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For this singular collection, Joyce Carol Oates selected fifty-five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century. Here is a sampling -- twelve unabridged essays -- featuring a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the genre, along with authors reading their own work. Nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS OF THE CENTURY is an outstanding, galvanic collection (Entertainment Weekly).

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v. 1. Introduction / Joyce Carol Oates --
Corn-pone opinions / Mark Twain --
How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston --
The crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
The figure a poem makes / Robert Frost --
Bop / Langston Hughes --
Artists in uniform / Mary McCarthy --
A sweet devouring / Eudora Welty --
A hundred thousand straightened nails / Donald Hall --
Aria : memoir of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez --
Total eclipse / Annie Dillard --
A drugstore in winter / Cynthia Ozick --
Life with daughters : watching the Miss America pageant / Gerald Early.

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