Features and Benefits
- Affordability. These one hundred well-known essays are offered at a price significantly lower than that of comparable composition anthologies—an exceptional value for your students!
- Variety. This collection of both contemporary and classic essays provides a wealth of teaching possibilities for instructors and students.
- Format. One Hundred Great Essays shares the high-quality design and format of Penguin’s best-selling, economical Classics series.
- Apparatus: Headnotes and Writing Assignments. Biographical and reading headnotes for each essay provide context for students; and three writing assignments after each essay offer ample ideas for student work.
- Flexibility. Essays are collected alphabetically by author, allowing instructors complete flexibility in sequencing the readings in a course.
New to This Edition
* One quarter of the essays are new to this edition with classic selections from such esteemed writers are George Bernard Shaw and Herman Melville to dynamic contemporary voices including Mark Doty and Walker Percy.
* A new thematic Table of Contents and a new Rhetorical Table of Contents have been added to offer ways of teaching the essays found in the anthology.
* In response to instructors' requests, headnotes have been sharpened and tightened to focus on the biography of the writer.