50 Classic Essays


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An anthology of 50 classic essays with an active table of contents to make it easy to quickly find the book you are looking for. Works Include: An Accursed Race by Elizabeth Gaskell The Apology by Xenophon The Appetite of Tyranny by G.K. Chesterton The Art of Money Getting by P. T. Barnum The Art of Writing and Other Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson As We Go by Charles Dudley Warner "Bethink Yourselves" by Leo Tolstoi The Californiacs by Inez Haynes Irwin The City That Was by Will Irwin Certain Personal Matters by H. G. Wells Clocks by Jerome K. Jerome A Confession by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy The Defendant by G.K. Chesterton An Essay on Professional Ethics by George Sharswood An Essay on Satire Particularly on the Dunciad by Walter Harte Evergreens by Jerome K. Jerome An Exhortation to Peace and Unity Attributed (incorrectly) to John Bunyan Get Next! by Hugh McHugh How to Become Rich by William Windsor How to Fail in Literature by Andrew Lang Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome If I May by A. A. Milne "Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers" by Charles Francis Adams Irish Impressions by G.K. Chesterton Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain Laugh and Live by Douglas Fairbanks Laughter by Henri Bergson The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie Marriage and Love by Emma Goldman Maxims for Revolutionists by George Bernard Shaw The Native Son by Inez Haynes Irwin Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson Never Again! by Edward Carpenter 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' AND 'Isn't That Just Like a Man' by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb and Mary Roberts Rinehart On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain On the Significance of Science and Art by Leo Tolstoy Optimism by Helen Keller Sea Warfare by Rudyard Kipling The Superstition of Divorce by G.K. Chesterton Through the Magic Door by Arthur Conan Doyle A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke Twelve Types by G.K. Chesterton Waiting for Daylight by Henry Major Tomlinson Walking by Henry David Thoreau War of the Classes by Jack London What to Do? by Leo Tolstoy When a Man Comes to Himself by Woodrow Wilson Why Worry? by George Lincoln Walton, M.D. Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau Zionism and Anti-Semitism by Max Simon Nordau and Gustav Gottheil DISCLAIMER: There has been concern about the table of contents (or lack thereof) in the ""50 Classic Books"" Series. Golgotha Press has addressed this problem and readers who download the books as of November 2011 can access a functional table of contents by going to the front of the book and paging forward two pages. Because of the size of this book, the ""active"" feature in the conversion is removed. We are trying resolve this problem, but until then, please follow the steps above. If you still experience the problem, please contact us so we can investigate exactly what is happening. Please note, however, that the table of contents does not become active until you purchase the book--preview mode does not currently support active TOC's. We apologize for any confusion or frustration this has caused.




Kill as Few Patients as Possible


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This oft-quoted all-time favorite of the medical community will gladden--and strengthen--the hearts of patients, doctors, and anyone entering medical study, internship, or practice. With unassailable logic and rapier wit, the sage Dr. Oscar London muses on the challenges and joys of doctoring, and imparts timeless truths, reality checks, and poignant insights gleaned from 30 years of general practice--while never taking himself (or his profession) too seriously. The classic book on the art and humor of practicing medicine, celebrating its 20th anniversary in a new gift edition with updates throughout. Previous editions have sold more than 200,000 copies. The perfect gift for med students and grads as well as new and practicing physicians. Approximately 17,000 students graduate from med school each spring in North America.




50 Essays (High School)


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Essays


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Selections from one of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world Plutarch used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into moral subjects that include the virtue of listening, the danger of flattery and the avoidance of anger, alongside more speculative essays on themes as diverse as God's slowness to punish man, the use of reason by supposedly "irrational" animals and the death of his own daughter. Brilliantly informed, these essays offer a treasure-trove of ancient wisdom, myth and philosophy, and a powerful insight into a deeply intelligent man. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.




Classic Essays on Photography


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Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others.




Collected Essays


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The collected essays of the “moral voice of [the] American stage” (The New York Times) in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Arthur Miller was not only one of America’s most important twentieth-century playwrights, but he was also one of its most influential literary, cultural, and intellectual voices. Throughout his career, he consistently remained one of the country’s leading public intellectuals, advocating tirelessly for social justice, global democracy, and the arts. Theater scholar Susan C. W. Abbotson introduces this volume as a selection of Miller’s finest essays, organized in three thematic parts: essays on the theater, essays on specific plays like Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, and sociopolitical essays on topics spanning from the Depression to the twenty-first century. Written with playful wit, clear-eyed intellect, and above all, human dignity, these essays offer unmatched insight into the work of Arthur Miller and the turbulent times through which he guided his country. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.




The Hall of Uselessness


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An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousness, and bite about European art, literature, history, and politics and is an unflinching observer of the way we live now. The Hall of Uselessness is the most extensive collection of Leys’s essays to be published to date. In it, he addresses subjects ranging from the Chinese attitude to the past to the mysteries of Belgium and Belgitude; offers portraits of André Gide and Zhou Enlai; takes on Roland Barthes and Christopher Hitchens; broods on the Cambodian genocide; reflects on the spell of the sea; and writes with keen appreciation about writers as different as Victor Hugo, Evelyn Waugh, and Georges Simenon. Throughout, The Hall of Uselessness is marked with the deep knowledge, skeptical intelligence, and passionate conviction that have made Simon Leys one of the most powerful essayists of our time.




Slouching Towards Bethlehem


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A RICH DISPLAY OF SOME OF THE BEST PROSE WRITTEN TODAY IN THE USA.




The Best American Essays of the Century


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




The Legacy of David Foster Wallace


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Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallace’s writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace gathers cutting-edge, field-defining scholarship by critics alongside remembrances by many of his writer friends, who include some of the world’s most influential authors. In this elegant volume, literary critics scrutinize the existing Wallace scholarship and at the same time pioneer new ways of understanding Wallace’s fiction and journalism. In critical essays exploring a variety of topics—including Wallace’s relationship to American literary history, his place in literary journalism, his complicated relationship to his postmodernist predecessors, the formal difficulties of his 1996 magnum opus Infinite Jest, his environmental imagination, and the “social life” of his fiction and nonfiction—contributors plumb sources as diverse as Amazon.com reader recommendations, professional book reviews, the 2009 Infinite Summer project, and the David Foster Wallace archive at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. The creative writers—including Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, George Saunders, Rick Moody, Dave Eggers, and David Lipsky, and Wallace’s Little, Brown editor, Michael Pietsch—reflect on the person behind the volumes of fiction and nonfiction created during the author’s too-short life. All of the essays, critical and creative alike, are written in an accessible style that does not presume any background in Wallace criticism. Whether the reader is an expert in all things David Foster Wallace, a casual fan of his fiction and nonfiction, or completely new to Wallace, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace will reveal the power and innovation that defined his contribution to literary life and to self-understanding. This illuminating volume is destined to shape our understanding of Wallace, his writing, and his place in history.