The Seagull Reader Essays Author:Joseph Kelly (Editor) W. W. Norton proudly announces the Seagull Readers, a new collection of the most frequently taught essays. Ideal for genre or introductory literature courses, the Seagull Readers offer a compact and affordable alternative to larger anthologies. Each volume includes a wide selection of both classic and contemporary works, as well as... more » a thorough introduction to each genre and biographies of the authors.
An inexpensive and portable alternative to bulky anthologies, The Seagull Reader: Essays offers 35 essays, from time-honored classics such as Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" to contemporary classics by Maya Angelou, Barbara Ehrenreich, Brent Staples, and Amy Tan, among others. The Seagull Reader: Essays is lightly supplemented by editorial apparatus, including an introduction to the major concepts of the genre, brief headnotes, annotations where necessary, a glossary of terms, and biographical sketches of each author.
Graduation / Maya Angelou
Of Youth and Age / Sir Francis Bacon
Stranger in the Village / James Baldwin
Why Don't We Complain? / William F. Buckley Jr.
A Fable for Tomorrow / Rachel Carson
On Running after One's Hat / G. K. Chesterton
On Keeping a Notebook / Joan Didion
Learning to Read / Frederick Douglass
In Defense of Talk Shows / Barbara Ehrenreich
Speech in Pennsylvania Hall / Angelina Grimke
How Dictionaries Are Made / S. I. Hayakawa
How It Feels to Be Colored Me / Zora Neale Hurston
The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson
Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King Jr.
No Name Woman / Maxine Hong Kingston
The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society / Jonathan Kozol
First Inaugural Address / Abraham Lincoln
A Homemade Education / Malcolm X
Of Cannibals / Michel de Montaigne
Politics and the English Language / George Orwell
Crito / Plato
Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls / Katha Pollitt
A Time for Choosing / Ronald Reagan
Letter to President Pierce / Chief Seattle
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton