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1	America Now: Short Readings from Recent Periodicals more books like this by Robert Atwan With 50 "very "brief readings -- all new to this edition -- from over 35 "very "recent periodicals and student newspapers on 12 topics of current interest, "America Now "reflects what students are talking and writing about right now. A key challenge in the first-year composition course is to inspire students as readers and to spark the kind of ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
2	The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings more books like this by Donald McQuade The readings in "The Writer's Presence "are selected exclusively for the quality of the writing. Editors Donald McQuade of the University of California, Berkeley, and Robert Atwan, Series Editor of "The Best American Essays "scoured hundreds of essays in search of teachable readings with strong voices and clear points of view. The result is a ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £6.55!
3	The Best American Essays more books like this by Susan Orlean (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor) This selection of 25 essays, edited by Susan Orlean, contains work by Andrea Barrett ("The Sea of Information"), Kitty Burns Florey ("Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog"), Jonathan Franzen ("The Comfort Zone"), David Masello ("My Friend Lodovico"), Oliver Sacks ("Speed"), and David Sedaris ("Old Faithful"). see all copies from £2.19! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
4	Harper American Literature, Single Volume Edition more books like this by Robert Atwan, Martha Banta, Justin Kaplan Beginning with Native American and pre-colonial narratives, and with an emphasis on whole works, this edition offers a full range of authors and selections representative of America's diverse literary traditions. Over 100 selections are new to this edition. "Cultural Portfolios"-together with thoroughly revised period introductions-provide ... see all copies from £29.66! new only from £74.77!
5	Convergences: Message, Method, Medium more books like this by Robert Atwan Bringing together the range of readings today's students encounter -- online, on screen, on paper -- this full-color composition reader helps students think and write about the intersections between the verbal and the visual, the medium and the message. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £8.48! \| first editions
6	Popular Writing in America: The Interaction of Style and Audience more books like this by Robert Atwan (Editor), Donald McQuade (Editor) Popular Writing in America provides composition students with models of strategies and techniques in writing effective prose. It shows the interaction of style and audience by drawing texts from advertising, the press, popular magazines, best sellers, classics, film, and television, and illustrates how a particular medium and its presumed audience ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £38.30! \| first editions
7	The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings more books like this by McQuade Atwan, Robert Atwan, Donald McQuade The Writer's Presence is the most flexible and balanced composition reader available, offering 157 superb readings arranged alphabetically by author and by five types of writing -- an organization that allows for many different approaches to teaching writing. see all copies from £5.65!
8	Best American Essays more books like this by Atwan "The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness. The essays tell hard-won tales wrestled sometimes ... see all copies from £6.36! new only from £19.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Harper American Literature, Volume I more books like this by Robert Atwan, Donald McQuade, Martha Banta In 1987, the first edition of The Harper American Literature made history; it pioneered the canon-expansion that made the greatest impact on the study of American literature in the past decade. The second edition contains a deeper historical-cultural context and a strong representation of writings by Native American, African American, and women ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £63.55!
10	The Best American Essays more books like this by Lauren Slater (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor) Edited by the bestselling writer Lauren Slater, this year's "Best American Essays" highlights provocative, lively writing from many of our brightest literary lights. Contributors include Adam Gopnik, Scott Turow, Marjorie Williams, Poe Ballantine, and others. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
11 view cover	Best American Essays more books like this by Louis Menand, III (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor) Louis Menand (who contributes an introduction called "Voices") has chosen an array of 20 essayists from many publications. Writers include Oliver Sacks, Luc Sante, Cynthia Zarin, Anne Fadiman, Rick Moody, Laura Hillenbrand, and Tim Judah, with work from The American Scholar, Granta, Artforum, Harper's, and (of course) The New Yorker, which has a ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
12 view cover	Chapters Into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible Volume 1: Genesis to Malachi more books like this by Robert Atwan (Editor), Laurance Wieder (Editor) From John Milton to D. H. Lawrence, poets have found creative inspiration in the Bible. This unique two-volume collection encompasses work of a variety of tones - devotional and meditative, sardonic or political - and includes re-enactments of key episodes, lyrical descants on familiar passages, peronal expressions of faith, and veiled social ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £24.61! \| first editions
13 view cover	Best American Essays 2000 more books like this by Alan Lightman (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor) This series annually collects the best essays published each year. Lightman, the 2000 guest editor, chose a diverse group of voices writing on a variety of subjects. The collection is unified by the earnestness of each essay. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
14 view cover	Best American Essays more books like this by Anne Fadiman (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor) Since 1986, "The Best American Essays" has gathered the most interesting and provocative writing of the year. This year's volume is terrifically diverse, with subjects ranging from driving lessons to animal rights to citizenship in times of emergency. see all copies from £4.94! new only from £6.57! \| first editions
15 view cover	Ten on Ten: Major Essayists on Recurring Themes more books like this by Robert Atwan This essayists-in-depth reader is "also" a thematic reader. It arranges 55 essays by 10 of the most widely read and highly regarded writers in the English language today (including Joan Didion, Virginia Woolf, E. B. White, and George Orwell) under 10 classic and provocative themes. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £60.68! \| first editions
16 view cover	Chapters Into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible Volume 2: Gospels to Revelation more books like this by Robert Atwan (Editor), Laurance Wieder, Laurence Wieder From John Milton to D. H. Lawrence, poets have found creative inspiration in the Bible. This unique two-volume collection encompasses work of a variety of tones - devotional and meditative, sardonic or political - and includes re-enactments of key episodes, lyrical descants on familiar passages, personal expressions of faith, and veiled social ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £33.89!
17	The Best American Essays: Fifth College Edition more books like this by Robert Atwan Thematically arranged, The Best American Essays, Fifth Edition, presents highly regarded contemporary authors at their best. The essays, selected from the popular Houghton Mifflin trade series of the same name, also cover common rhetorical modes--including narration and argumentation--thereby providing instructors optimal flexibility with respect ... see all copies from £26.34! new only from £27.54!
18 view cover	The Best American Essays 1997 more books like this by Ian Frazier (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor) Each new volume of this acclaimed collection reflects the guest editor's distinctive taste and perspective. This year, Ian Frazier provides an unusually humorous and unpredictable selection, featuring essays by some of our most respected writers, including Susan Sontag, Roy Blount, Jr., and Thomas McGuane. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £18.24! \| first editions
19 view cover	A Dream of Summer: Poems for a Sensuous Season more books like this by Robert Atwan (Editor), Mary Oliver (Introduction by) A Dream of Summer collects some forty evocative poems by English-language writers on the experience and joy of summertime. Illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings of all things summer, this volume focuses on the sensuality of summertime and the varieties of summer experience. It is a love letter to the sultry heat, crashing thunderstorms, ... see all copies from £5.92! new only from £6.18! \| first editions
20	Best American Essays 1994 more books like this by Tracy Kidder (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor) In a series praised every year for its eclectic character, this year's collection is one of the most eclectic ever. Featuring an astonishing range of essay topics and types, here are vibrant pieces by America's finest prose writers like John McPhee, Jamaica Kincaid, and Stanley Elkin. Guest edited by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £18.33! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Best American Essays more books like this by Cynthia Ozick (Introduction by), Robert Atwan (Foreword by) The reflections and recollections of Saul Bellow, John Updike, Jamaica Kincaid, John McPhee, and Andre Dubus join company with many voices new to this series, as an astonishing variety of writers share their deepest thoughts on ecstasy and injury, ambition and failure, privacy and notoriety. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.12! \| first editions
22 view cover	A Mind of Winter: Poems for a Snowy Season more books like this by Robert Atwan (Editor), Donald Hall (Introduction by) Illustrated throughout with elegant woodcuts, "A Mind of Winter" collects some 30 of the most moving poems on the experience of winter. Contributors include James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Rafael Campo, and Gertrude Schnackenberg. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.44! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Best American Essays 1996 more books like this by Geoffrey C Ward (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor) In this lively, outstanding group of essays with a slightly different twist--one that looks out instead of in--Amitav Ghosh visits New Delhi during a moment of social upheaval; Change-Rae Lee welcomes readers into his family kitchen; Gerald Early analyzes the Afrocentric dream of a world without whites; Jonathan Raban hears "the last call of the ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.01! \| first editions
24	The Best American Essays, 1993 more books like this by Joseph Epstein, Robert Atwan (Editor) Appealing to more diverse and numerous writers than ever before, the essay form belies its reputation as archaic and dull as it takes on some of the liveliest, most poignant, and most humorous issues of our time. Epstein assembles works from Louise Huxtable, Oliver Sacks, Alex Haley, Cynthia Ozick, and others. see all copies from £2.08! new only from £6.32! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Best American Essays more books like this by Stephen Jay Gould (Editor), Robert Atwan (Foreword by) Essays include work by Barbara Ehrenreich, Bernard Cooper, Atul Gawande, and Jonathan Franzen. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £48.36!

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