| Description |
660 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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A brown owl / H. M. Tomlinson -- From life on the Mississippi: A pilot's needs / Mark Twain -- Fire walking in Ceylon / Leonard Feinberg -- From specimen days: the civil war / Walt Whitman -- On some mental effects of the earthquake / William James -- The Indian guide / H. D. Thoreau -- Painting as a pastime / Winston Churchill -- The door / E. B. White -- The smart ones got through / George R. Stewart -- From Autobiography: Projects and improvments / Benjamin Franklin -- Benjamin Frankin / D. H. Lawrence -- From autobiography: My mother / Anthony Trollope -- Ida M'Toy / Eudora Welty -- From R. E. Lee: The answer he was born to make / D. S. Freeman -- The surrender at Appomattox / U. S. Grant -- Happiness / Guy De Maupassant -- From an invitation to an eastern feast: A new perspective on India / Austin Coates -- My belief / W. H. Auden -- From hard times: M'Choakumchild's schoolroom / Charles Dickens -- From Village in the vaucluse: An American looks at a French school / Lawrence Wylie -- The idealist / Frank O' Connor -- University of Michigan / Arthur Miller -- From Purely academic: Lecture and discussion / Stringfellow Barr -- What is culture / Gaetano Salvemini -- Conflicts in the learning process: The student's response to teaching / William G. Perry, Jr. -- From the story of my life: My first word / Helen Keller -- World's best directions writer / Ken Macrorie -- How to lie with statistics / Darrell Huff -- Love is a fallacy / Max Shulman -- Scholarly style, or the lack thereof / Sheridan Baker -- The reading machine / Morris Bishop -- How should one read a book / Virginia woolf -- The passenger pigeon / J. J. Audubon -- The passing of the passenger pigeon: A lesson in biological survival / Ludlow Griscom -- Sherlock Holmes on the science of deduction / A. Conan Doyle -- Mr. Dooley on Sherlock Holmes / Finley Peter Dunne -- Dump Heaps and the origin of agriculture / Edgar Anderson -- Two kinds of knowledge / William James -- From the social problems of an industrial civilization: The first inquiry / Elton Mayo -- The age of the universe / C. A. Coulson -- The real secret of piltdown / Loren Eiseley -- The tree of knowledge / J. R. Oppenheimer -- The microscopic eye: Some thoughts on the form of nature / Joseph Wood Krutch -- From the science of linguistics: Definition of language / John B. Carroll -- The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson -- From the federalist: The control of faction / James Madison -- A calendar of great Americans / Woodrow Wilson -- From democracy in America: The tyranny of the majority / Alexis De Tocqueville -- Ater you, my dear alphonse / Shirley Jackson -- Blue Island / J. F. Powers -- Some generalities that still glitter / Carl Becker -- Traveling with a reformer / Mark Twain -- Utopia in Pennsylvania: The Amish / Albert Jay Nock -- The decline of greatness / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- From the causes of world war three: The pivotal decision / C. Wright Mills -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Mark Twain -- Last days of Socrates / Plato -- The relation between religion and culture / Christopher Dawson -- The portable phonograph / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- The future of mankind / Bertrand Russell -- Indefensible and uninhabitable / Peter Viereck -- The abolition of man / C. S. Lewis -- Out for stars: A meditation on Robert Frost / George F. Whicher |
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American prose literature.
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American prose literature. |
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English prose literature.
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English prose literature. |
| Added Author |
Steinhoff, William R.
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