2000年　ページ部分15.3×22.8　P596　　カバー少クスミ、背少ヤケ、上端少イタミ、裏側僅剥がれ

編：Joyce Carol Oates
出版社：HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

1901〜1997年の間に発表されたさまざまな著者のエッセイを収録したアンソロジー。

目次：
Foreword（Robert Atwan）
Introduction（Joyce Carol Oates）

1901: corn-pone Opinions(Mark Twain)／1903: Of the Coming of John(W.E.B. Du Bois)／1906: A Law of Acceleration(Henry Adams)／1909: Stricken(John Muir)／1910: The Moral Equivalent of War／1911: The Handicapped(Randoloh Bourne)／1912: Coatesville(John Jay Chapman)／1916: The Devil Bady at Hull-House／1919: Tradition and the Individual Talent／1923: Pamploma in july(Ernest Hemingway)／1925: The Hills of Zion(H.L.Mencken)／1928: How It Feels to Be Colored Me(Zora Neale Hurston)／1933: The Old Stone House(Edmund Wilson)／1935: What Are Master-Pieces and Why 1936: Are There So Few of Then(Gertrude Stein)／1937: The Crank-Up(F.Scott Fitzgerald)／1937: The Eithics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch(Richard Wright)／1938: Knoxville: Summer of 1915(James Agee)／1939: The Figure a Poem Makes(Robert Frost)／1941: Once More to the Lake(E.B.White)／1944: Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away(S.J.Perelman)／1949: Bop(Langston Hughes)／1950: The Future Is Now(Katherine Anne Porter)／1953: Artists in Uniform(Mary Mccarthy)／1955: The Marginal World(Rachel Carson)／1955: Notes of a Native Son(James Baldwin)／1956: The Brown Wasps(Loren Eiseley)／1957: A Sweet Devouring(Eudora Welty)／1961: A hundred Thousand Straightened Nails(Donald Hall)／1963: Letter from Birmingham Jail(Martin Luther King, Jr.)／1964: Putting Daddy On(Tom Wolfe)／1964 Notes on "Camp"／1966: Perfect Past(Vladimir nabokov)／1967: The Way to Rainy Mountain(N. Scott Momaday)／1968: The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King(Elizabeth Hardwick)／1969: Illumination Rounds(Michael Herr)／1970: I Know Why the Cagged Bird Sings(Maya Angelou)／1971: The Lives of a Cell(Lewis Thomas)／1972: The Search for Marvin Gardens(John Mcphee)／1972: The Doomed in Their Sinking(William H. Gass)／1975: No Name Woman(Maxine Hong Kingston)／1975: Looking for Zora(Allice Walker)／1977: Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying(Adrienne Rich)／1979: The White Album(Joan Didion)／1980: Aria: A Memoie of a Bilingual Childhood(Rechard Rodoriguez)／1981: The Solace of Open Spaces(Gretel Ehrlich)／1982: Total Eclipse(Annie Dillard)／1982: A Drugstore in Winter(Cynthia Ozick)／1987: Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of All(William Manchester)／1988: Heaven and Nature(Edward Hoagland)／1989: The Creation Myths of Cooperstown(Stephen Jay Gould)／1990: Life with Daughtersl Watching the Miss America Pageant(Gerald Early)／1993: The Disposable Rocket(John Updike)／1995: they All Just Went Away(Joyce Caroll Oates)／1997: Graven Images(Saul Bellow)

Biographical Notes
Appendix: Notable Twentieth-Century American Literary Nonfiction