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by Samuel Cohen (Author)
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50 Essays: A Portable Anthology directly addresses students' and instructors' concerns that composition readers are too expensive and too large. With a net price of $21, less than half the size and price of comparable readers, 50 Essays meets the needs of a wide variety of classrooms. The carefully chosen table of contents presents enough familiarity to reassure instructors, enough novelty to keep things interesting, and enough variety to accommodate many different teaching needs. The editorial apparatus has been designed to support that variety of needs without being intrusive. In its second edition, 50 Essays continues to offer selections that instructors love to teach, with even more flexibility and more support for academic writing.


About the Author
SAMUEL COHEN (Ph.D., City University of New York) is an assistant  professor in the English Department at the University of Missouri – Columbia. He has published in such journals as The Journal of Basic Writing, Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists, Clio, and Twentieth-Century Literature,  and is at work on a monograph,  After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s.

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  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's; 2nd edition (November 6, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312446985
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312446987
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,671 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars English Teacher's Paradise, November 24, 2007
Unfortunately, the textbook that I use in my high school English classes does not offer an interesting, age apporpriate selection of nonfiction pieces. I purchased this book to help compensate for the lack of interesting essays in our textbook and was delighted to find that this anthology is organized with teachers in mind. Essays are organized by themes, a list of essays to compare/contrast is provided for convenience, and critical thinking and essay questions are provided at the end of each essay.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!, March 26, 2009
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My daughter brought this home for some required reading in her 9th grade Honors English class and I picked it up ... and couldn't put it down. Finally I bought my own copy, which I have read cover to cover twice, and recently bought another as a gift. What a remarkable selection of remarkable essays, from the classic to the contemporary, what a compendium of thoughts and ideas. A wonderful read, all the way through --particularly if you're not in high school English anymore.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book, February 29, 2008
Although I bought it for school it has alot of very interesting and mind opening essays. Overall its a great book and I enjoyed reading it.
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