Modern American Prose: A Reader for Writers

Modern American Prose,3/e,includes four essays each of fifteen major American essayists and one essay by each of fifteen important American writers,allowing students to see the range of a writer's work and the creative nature of the essay. Excellent rhetorical apparatus (introductions and questions) provides a means more analytical and evaluative reading. The broad collection of writers and works gives students an introduction to the nature and power of the essay as a genre,plus a better sense of writers' individual and varied voices.