Fifty great essays

Synopsis

KEY FEATURE: Fifty Great Essays offers an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing as part of Longman's distinguished Penguin Academic Series, sharing the low-cost, high-quality goals of the widely-admired Penguin Classics series. A wide range of essays at an affordable price, Fifty Great Essays offers readers an excellent introduction into the world of great essay-writing. Selections range from classic essays such as E.B. White's, "Beauty" and Frederick Douglass', "Learning to Read and Write" to contemporary essays such as Mary Wollstonecraft's, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" and Nancy Mairs, "On Being a Cripple." General readers.