The McGraw-Hill reader

Note: 81008126 [edited by] Gilbert H. Muller. Includes index. Personal narrative -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- The mesmerizer / Mark Twain -- Home for Christmas / Carson McCullers -- The wonderful lousy poem / Budd Schulberg -- The figure eight / John A. Williams -- By any other name / Santha Rama Rau -- The night the bed fell / James Thurber -- A visit to grandpa's / Dylan Thomas -- The American father / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The deterioration of my marriage / Maya Angelou -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Wednesday, 12 January 1763: a man of pleasure / James Boswell -- The sense of place -- Why I live where I live / Harry Crews -- A Sunday in London / Washington Irving -- A day in Samoa / Margaret Mead -- The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- Economy / Henry David Thoreau -- The big house / Elizabeth Bowen -- The royal exchange / Joseph Addison -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- Marrakech / George Orwell -- Suburbia: of thee I sing / Phyllis McGinley -- American cities / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Morocco / Anais Nin -- Manners and morals -- Wasteland / Marya Mannes -- Sex is not a spectator sport / S.I. Hayakawa -- Polygamy / A.G. Mojtabai -- Adult cruelty and folly / St. Augustine -- Soul food / Amiri Baraka -- The art of procuring pleasant dreams / Benjamin Franklin -- Bamama goes to college / Ellen Goodman -- Do women change? / D.H. Lawrence -- A bachelor's complaint / Charles Lamb -- A superstitious household / Joseph Addison -- A treatise on good manners and good breedinig / Jonathan Swift -- Of envy / Francis Bacon -- Human development and behavior -- The death of the moth / Virginia Woolf -- Powerlessness corrupts / Rollo May -- The uses of cannibalism / Ruth Benedict -- Remarks concerning the savages of North America / Benjamin Franklin -- The diffusion of cultural traits / Franz Boas -- In bed / Joan Didion -- Notes on feminism / Anais Nin -- The new therapy / Marya Mannes -- The mother archetype / Carl Gustav Jung -- Libidinal types / Sigmund Freud -- The psychological reactions of oppressed people / Richard Wright -- The Oedipus complex / Karen Horney -- Social processes and institutions -- My wood / E.M. Forster -- Conserving old work by adding new / Jane Jacobs -- An election / Oliver Goldsmith -- Wrong ism / J.B. Priestley -- Some reflections on American manners / Alexis de Tocqueville -- America revised / Frances Fitzgerald -- The social concept of the city / Lewis Mumford -- Of the meaning of progress / W.E.B. DuBois -- The circle of governments / Niccolo Machiavelli -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Are families passe? / Ruth Benedict -- An inquiry into the persistence of unwisdom in government / Barbara Tuchman -- Language, writing, and communication -- On keeping a private journal / Henry David Thoreau -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- Words and children / S.I. Hayakawa -- Little Red Riding Hood revisited / Russell Baker -- Calculating machine / E.B. White -- How to mark a book / Mortimer J. Adler -- Expressive language / Amiri Baraka -- Sight, sound, and the fury / Marshall McLuhan -- Politics and the English language / George Orwell -- The art of political lying / Jonathan Swift -- The corruption of English / John Simon -- White English in blackface, or who do i be? / Geneva Smitherman -- Literature, media, and the arts -- How books helped shape my life / Judith Viorst - A comparison / Sylvia Plath -- Why the novel matters / D.H. Lawrence -- American SF and the other / Ursula K. LeGuin -- On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth / Thomas de Quincey -- On Gusto / William Hazlitt -- Break-up: the core of modern art / Katharine Kuh -- How do you know it's good? / Marya Mannes -- The gangster as tragic hero / Robert Warshow -- Movies on television / Pauline Kael -- The uses of the blues / James Baldwin -- Taste in music / Virgil Thomson -- Philosophy, ethics, and religious thought -- I listen to my parents and I wonder why they believe / Robert Coles -- We shoudl seek our own pleasure / Epicurus -- Roots of freedom / Edith Hamilton -- The allegory of the cave / Plato -- The ethical systems of the ancients / Immanual

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