The eloquent essay: an anthology of classic & creative nonfiction

A hanging / George Orwell

The guilty vicarage / W.H. Auden

Writing and analyzing a story / Eudora Welty

The ignored lesson of Anne Frank / Bruno Bettelheim

Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr.

Georgia O'Keefe / Joan Didion

The cowboy and his cow / Edward Abbey

Huck at 100 / Leo Marx

In praise of the humble comma / Pico Iyer

When free speech was first condemned : the trial of Socrates reconsidered / I.F. Stone

Mother tongue / Amy Tan

Becoming a doctor / Lewis Thomas

How Mr. Dewey Decimal saved my life / Barbara Kingsolver

Is hunting ethical? / Ann S. Causey

The fine art of baloney detection / Carl Sagan

Space is numeric / Ellen Ullman

Lying in the tall grasses, eating cane / Opal Palmer Adisa.