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Table Of Contents:
Rhetorical Contents xi(8)
Preface xix
Introduction: Reading in the Various Genres 1(32)

1 REFLECTIONS ON EXPERIENCE 33(64)

Nonfiction 34(37)

George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant 34(6)

Fritz Peters

Boyhood with Gurdjieff 40(4)

Leonard Woolley

The Flood 44(5)

Dave Barry

Just Say No to Rugs 49(2)

Jill Nelson

Number One! 51(4)

Richard Rhodes

A Hole in the World 55(5)

Christy Brown

The Letter `A' 60(5)

James Herriot

Rumenotomy on a Cow 65(2)

Douchan Gersi

Initiated Into an Iban Tribe 67(4)

Fiction 71(21)

Natsume Soseki

I Am a Cat 71(11)

Amy Tan

Two Kinds 82(10)

Poetry 92(5)

William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXX, When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 92(1)

Sara Teasdale

The Solitary 93(1)

Rita Dove

The Wake 94(3)

2 INFLUEMENTAL PEOPLE AND MEMORABLE PLACES 97(79)

Nonfiction 98(52)

James Boswell

The Character of Samuel Johnson 98(4)

Raymond Carver

My Father's Life 102(7)

Tennessee Williams

The Man in the Overstuffed Chair 109(9)

Patricia Hampl

Grandmother's Sunday Dinner 118(3)

Mark Salzman

Lessons 121(6)

Sylvia Plath

from Letters Home (June 1953) 127(1)

E. M. Forster

My Wood 128(3)

P. D. Ouspensky

The Taj Mahal 131(10)

William Zinsser

Niagara Falls 141(9)

Fiction 150(19)

Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man Is Hard To Find 150(13)

Donald Barthelme

I Bought a Little City 163(6)

Poetry 169(7)

Cathy Song

The Youngest Daughter 169(2)

Robert Hayden

Those Winter Sundays 171(1)

Vasco Popa

The Lost Red Boot 172(1)

William Wordsworth

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge 173(1)

Carl Sandburg

Chicago 174(2)

3 THE HUMAN CONDITION 176(101)

Nonfiction 177(57)

Mark Twain

The Lowest Animal 177(5)

Erwin Wickert

The Chinese and the Sense of Shame 182(11)

Stanley Milgram

The Perlis of Obedience 193(12)

Aristotle

Youth and Old Age 205(3)

Annie Dillard

So THis Was Adolescence 208(3)

Nora Ephron

A Few Words About Breasts 211(7)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

The Myth of the Latin Woman 218(5)

Stephen Jay Gould

Our Allotted Lifetimes 223(5)

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Stages of Dying 228(6)

Fiction 234(23)

D. H. Lawrence

The Horse Dealer's Daughter 234(13)

Kate Chopin

Desiree's Baby 247(5)

Jerzy Kosinski

The Miller's Tale 252(5)

Poetry 257(4)

Anna Kamienska

Funny 257(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese: How Do I Love Thee? 258(1)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

The Woman Who Was Left at the Altar 259(1)

William Butler Yeats

When You Are Old 260(1)

Drama 261(16)

Tewfik al-Hakim

The Donkey Market 261(16)

4 THE VALUE OF EDUCATION 277(72)

Nonfiction 278(50)

Fredrick Douglass

Learning to Read and Write 278(4)

Maya Angelou

Liked for Myself 282(4)

Eudora Welty

Clamorous to Learn 286(6)

Mary Crow Dog

Civilize Them With a Stick 292(7)

Mike Rose

Lives on the Boundary 299(12)

William A. Henry III

In Defense of Elitism 311(4)

Frank Conroy

Think About It 315(5)

Nat Hentoff

Speech Codes' on the Campus and the Problems of Free Speech 320(8)

Fiction 328(16)

Jamaica Kincaid

Girl 328(1)

Donald Barthelme

The School 329(3)

Tobias Wolff

Smokers 332(12)

Poetry 344(5)

Francis E. W. Harper

Learning to Read 344(2)

Linda Hogan

Workday 346(1)

Philip Larkin

A Study of Reading Habits 347(2)

5 PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE 349(56)

Nonfiction 350(38)

Amy Tan

Mother Tongue 350(5)

Susanne K. Langer

Language and Thought 355(5)

Helen Keller

The Day Language Came Into My Life 360(2)

Aldous Huxley

Propaganda Under a Dictatorship 362(6)

Bruno Bettleheim

The Holocaust 368(3)

Margaret Atwood

Pornography 371(5)

James Finn Garner

Little Red Riding Hood 376(2)

Joan Didion

Miami: The Cuban Presence 378(10)

Fiction 388(10)

Raymond Carver

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 388(10)

Poetry 398(7)

Muriel Rukeyser

Myth 398(1)

Theodore Roethke

Open House 399(1)

T. S. Eliot

The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock 399(6)

6 ISSUES IN SOCIETY 405(85)

Nonfiction 406(60)

Margaret Sanger

The Turbid Ebb and Flow of Misery 406(5)

Richard Selzer

Abortion 411(6)

Paul Monette

Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir 417(4)

Mike Royko

Farewell to Fitness 421(2)

Kim Chernin

The Flesh and the Devil 423(7)

Philip Slater

What-Creation Fuels Americans' Addictiveness 430(4)

Jo Goodwin Parker

What is Poverty? 434(4)

Richard Rhodes

Watching the Animals 438(8)

John McMurtry

Kill 'Em! Crush 'EM! Eat 'EM Raw! 446(6)

Jessica Mitford

Mortuary Solaces 452(5)

Alan Durning

Asking How Much Is Enough 457(4)

Benjamin Demott

Sure, We're All Just One Big Happy Family 461(5)

Fiction 466(16)

Andre Dubus

The Fat Girl 466(12)

Tobias Wolff

Say Yes 478(4)

Poetry 482(8)

Wing Tek Lum

Minority Poem 482(1)

Grace Caroline Bridges

Lisa's Ritual, Age 10 483(2)

Bruce Springsteen

Streets of Philadelphia 485(1)

Marge Piecy

Barbie Doll 486(1)

Marge Piercy

The Nine of Cups 487(1)

Audre Lorde

To My Daughter the Junkie on a Train 488(2)

7 THE NATURAL WORLD 490(105)

Nonfiction 491(78)

Jean Henri Fabre

The Praying Mantis 491(10)

Jane van Lawick-Goodall

First Observations 501(7)

E. B. White

Death of a Pig 508(7)

Konard Lorenz

The Dove and the Wolf 515(11)

Aldo Leopold

Thinking Like a Mountain 526(3)

Ursula K. Le Guin

A Very Warm Mountain 529(6)

Howard Hall

Playing Tag with Wild Dolphins 535(2)

Hans Zinsser

Rats and men 537(10)

Edward O. Wilson

Is Humanity Suicidal? 547(9)

Joseph K. Skinner

Big Mac and the Tropical Forests 556(6)

Rachel Carson

Silent Spring 562(7)

Fiction 569(16)

Bessie Head

Looking for a Rain God 569(4)

William Faulkner

The Bear 573(12)

Poetry 585(10)

D. H. Lawrence

Snake 585(3)

Ted Hughes

Pike 588(2)

William Blake

The Tyger 590(1)

Marianne Moore

A Grave 591(1)

William Carlos Williams

Spring and All 592(3)

8 THE HISTROICAL DIMENSION 595(85)

Nonfiction 596(54)

Howard Carter

Finding the Tomb 596(3)

Meriwether Lewis

William Clark

The Journals of Lewis & Clark 602(2)

Kenneth M. Stampp

To Make Them Stand in Fear 604(4)

Sullivan Ballou

Sullivan Ballou Letter 608(1)

Walt Whitman

Death of Abraham Lincoln 609(8)

Robert Falcon Scott

Scott's Last March 617(10)

Jack London

The San Francisco Earthquake 627(6)

John Hersey

A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima 633(10)

Frances FitzGerald

Rewriting American History 643(7)

Fiction 650(24)

Ambrose Bierce

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 650(8)

Alice Walker

The Flowers 658(2)

Tadeus Borowski

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman 660(14)

Poetry 674(6)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias 674(1)

Nelly Sachs

A Chorus of the Dead 675(1)

Elena Fourtouni

Child's Memory 676(2)

Galway Kinnell

For Robert Frost 678(2)

9 THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE STATE 680(65)

Nonfiction 681(40)

Joseph Addison

The Political Upholsterer 681(3)

Thomas Paine

Rights of Man 684(3)

Golda Meir

We Have Our State 687(5)

Nien Cheng

The Red Guards 692(9)

Armando Valladares

A Nazi Prison in the Caribbean 701(7)

Martin Luther King Jr.

I Have a Dream 708(5)

Rigoberta Menchu

Things Have Happened to Me as in a Movie 713(3)

Slavenka Drakulic

The Balkan Express 716(5)

Fiction 721(19)

Albert Camus

The Guest 721(10)

Louise Erdrich

The Red Convertible 731(9)

Poetry 740(5)

W. H. Auden

The Unknown Citizen 740(1)

Margaret Atwood

At First I Was Given Centuries 741(2)

Carolyn Forche

The Colonel 743(2)

10 DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 745(95)

Nonfiction 746(58)

Horace Freeland Judson

The Rage to Know 746(9)

Charles H. Townes

Harnessing Light 755(5)

Douglas R. Houfstadter

The Turing Test 760(8)

O. B. Hardison Jr.

Charles Darwin's Tree of Life 768(8)

Constance Holden

Identical Twins Reared Apart 776(8)

Pamela Weintraub

The Brain: His and Hers 784(8)

Robert J. Samuelson

Technology in Reverse 792(3)

Esther Dyson

Cyberspace: If You Don't Love It, Leave it 795(4)

W. French Anderson

Genetics & Human Malleability 799(5)

Fiction 804(32)

John Cheever

THe Enormous Radio 804(8)

Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon 812(24)

Poetry 836(4)

Walt Whitman

When I Heard the Learned Astronomer 836(1)

Peggy Seeger

I'm Gonna Be An Engineer 837(3)

11 THE ARTISTIC IMPULSE 840(88)

Nonfiction 841(51)

Anne Tyler

Still Just Writing 841(8)

Joyce Carol Oates

Against Nature 849(8)

Alice Munro

What Is Real? 857(3)

Leslie Marmon Silko

Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective 860(10)

Agnes deMille

Pavlova 870(3)

Robert Benchley

Opera Synopsis 873(2)

Jeff Greenfield

The Beatles: They Changed Rock Which Changed the Culture, Which Changed Us 875(7)

Lance Morrow

Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle 882(4)

Octavio Paz

Fiesta 886(6)

Fiction 892(26)

James Baldwin

Sonny's Blues 892(26)

Poetry 918(10)

Dylan Thomas

In My Graft or Sullen Art 918(1)

Emily Dickinson

Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant 919(1)

John Keats

Ode on a Grecian Urn 920(2)

William Carlos Williams

The Dance 922(2)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see 924(4)

12 ETHICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS ISSUES 928(168)

Nonfiction 929(62)

Philip Wheelwright

The Meaning of Ethics 929(6)

George Bernard Shaw

On Vivisection 935(6)

Garrett Hardin

Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor 941(10)

Michael Levin

The Case for Torture 951(3)

Daniel Callahan

Aid in Dying: The Social Dimension 954(5)

Timothy E. Quill

My Patient's Suicide 959(3)

Randy Fitzgerald

The Great Spotted Owl War 962(5)

Donella Meadows

Not Seeing the Forest for the Dollar Bills 967(2)

William James

The Will to Believe 969(3)

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Growing Up Apocalyptic 972(10)

Langston Hughes

Salvation 982(2)

Peter Matthiessen

The Snow Leopard 984(7)

Fiction 991(25)

Guy de Maupassant

The Necklace 991(7)

Leslie Marmon Silko

The Man to Send Rain Clouds 998(4)

Joyce Carol Oates

Where Are You Going, Where have You Been? 1002(14)

Parables 1016(18)

Plato

The Allegory of the Cave 1016(5)

Parables in The New Testament 1021(5)

Parables of Buddha 1026(1)

Nasreddin Hodja

Islamic Folk Stories 1027(2)

W. Somerset Maugham

Death Speaks 1029(1)

Nagib Mahfouz

Half a Day 1030(4)

Poetry 1034(8)

Ted Hughes

Examinations at the Womb Door 1034(1)

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken 1035(1)

Stevie Smith

The Galloping Cat 1036(2)

Dylan Thomas

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night 1038(2)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Windhover 1040(1)

William Butler Yeats

The Second Coming 1041(1)

Drama 1042(54)

Sophocles

Oedipus Rex 1042(54)
CREDITS 1096(8)
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES 1104