One Hundred Great EssaysRobert DiYanni · The Great Essays collections are part of the Penguin Academic series of low-cost, high quality texts. These alphabetically-organized readers offer the most commonly taught classic and contemporary essays and minimal apparatus. · A wide variety of writing styles represent diverse authorship. · Introduction to history and context of the essay and the pleasures of reading and writing essays. · Supplements: IM and CW (www.ablongman.com/diyanni) |
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... young mother was wishing that she might have more nourishment to give her second child than she had had for her first . A young woman had been cut off from society for weeks on end while she nursed her child through an infectious ...
... young mother was wishing that she might have more nourishment to give her second child than she had had for her first . A young woman had been cut off from society for weeks on end while she nursed her child through an infectious ...
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... young sin- ners , who had not yet been brought to Jesus . My aunt told me that when you were saved you saw a light ... Young lambs , won't you come ? " And he held out his arms to all us young sinners there on the mourners ' bench . And ...
... young sin- ners , who had not yet been brought to Jesus . My aunt told me that when you were saved you saw a light ... Young lambs , won't you come ? " And he held out his arms to all us young sinners there on the mourners ' bench . And ...
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... young boys ; if you were to observe them , as they did on two occasions , refuse to give us food because we wanted ... young high school and college students , the young ministers of the gospel and a host of their elders , coura- geously ...
... young boys ; if you were to observe them , as they did on two occasions , refuse to give us food because we wanted ... young high school and college students , the young ministers of the gospel and a host of their elders , coura- geously ...
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU | 3 |
JAMES BALDWIN | 5 |
Arriving at an Interpretation | 30 |
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