The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction [Paperback]

This anthology of seventeen modern essays shows the form at its most varied and dramatic. Purposefully concise, it gathers together exemplars of the personal narrative, the argument, the anecdotal essay, digressive discourse, the open letter, and others. Some of the most engaging authors of our time write on subjects as diverse as becoming a doctor, cattle grazing rights, the death of Socrates, Anne Frank, computer culture, and how to detect baloney in all the verbiage that surrounds us.A concise anthology of superb classic and creative nonfiction from the twentieth century.