The Little, Brown Reader, 8/E
Marcia Stubbs, Wellesley College
Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University

ISBN-10: 032102401X
ISBN-13: 9780321024015

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2000
Format: Paper; 893 pp
Status: Out of Print

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The eighth edition of The Little, Brown Reader offers abundant readings that engage readers and promote critical thinking and writing. Throughout the book, questions on individual works stimulate readers to think about writing analyses, evaluations, and other thoughtful responses. The strength of The Little, Brown Reader has always been the quality readings and the unmatched apparatus; the revision enhances both features, further improving the text's focus on critical thinking and writing.

  • NEW - <F75BS>New! Chapter 3, “Academic Writing,” contains a sample student essay and a discussion of the interview as a research technique. Pg.___
  • NEW - <F75BS>New! Chapter 4, “Writing an Argument,” contains new material, including an explanation of Rogerian Argument, a transcript from a segment of Jim Lehrer's “Newshour,” and new sample essays. Pg.___
  • NEW - <F75BS>New! Two new thematic chapters with all new readings—Chapter 6, “Memoirs: Discovering the Past,” and Chapter 14, “The Millennium.” Pg.___
  • NEW - <F75BS>New! Five, all new “casebooks” in the thematic chapters that provide a cluster of readings on a specific issue within the broader theme/topic of the chapter. For example, Chapter 8 (“Identities”) includes a casebook on “Race,” with seven readings by prominent writers addressing questions of race identity in the U.S. Found in Chapters 7, 8, 9, 13, and 14. Pg.___
  • Updated! Includes a greater emphasis on critical thinking and analysis, academic writing, writing about visual texts, and expanded coverage of summarizing and outlining. Pg.___
  • Five introductory chapters on writing emphasize ways of thoughtfully responding to texts and to pictures. Samples of student writing are included. Pg.___
  • Provocative photographs, paintings and cartoons as well as short quotes open Chapters 6-15 (over 45 visuals in this edition.) Pg.___
  • Each selection is followed by “Topics for Critical Thinking and Writing,” questions that ask students to analyze the readings and compare one reading in a chapter to another. Pg.___
  • The authors have written their own Instructor's Manual, Teaching The Little, Brown Reader, that includes analyses of all entries (including pictures), tips on teaching these materials, and additional assignments. Pg.___
  • Includes a wide range of essays, organized thematically, with a final chapter of “Classic Essays.” Selections range from Plato to the present, and include several essays by students. Pg.___

( * Notes new to edition.)

Preface.


1. A Writer Reads.

Previewing.

Skimming.

The Dying Family, J.H. Plumb.

Highlights, Underlining, Annotating.

Summarizing.

Critical Thinking: Analyzing the Text.

Tone and Persona.



2. A Reader Writes.

We Have No “Right to Happiness,” C.S. Lewis.

Responding to an Essay.

The Writing Process.

Getting Ready to Write a Draft.

Draft of an Essay on “We Have No 'Right to Happiness'”.

The Final Version: Style and Argument: An Examination of C.S. Lewis's “We Have No 'Right to Happiness'”.

A Checklist for Analyzing and Evaluating an Essay That You Are Writing About.



3. Academic Writing.

Kinds of Prose.

More about Critical Thinking: Analysis and Evaluation.

Joining the Conversation: Writing about Differing Views.

Writing about Essays Less Directly Related: A Student's Notes and Journal Entries.

*The Student's Final Version: “Two Ways of Thinking about Today's Families”.

Interviewing.

Using Quotations.

A Checklist for Editing: Thirteen Questions to Ask Yourself.



4. Writing an Argument.

The Aims of an Argumentative Essay.

Negotiating Agreements: The Approach of Carl R. Rogers.

A Checklist for Rogerian Argument.

Three Kinds of Evidence: Examples, Testimony, Statistics.

How Much Evidence Is Enough?

Avoiding Fallacies.

Drafting an Argument.

Organizing an Argument.

Persona and Style.

An Overview: An Examination of an Argument.

No Comprendo, Barbara Mujica.

A Checklist for Revising Drafts of Arguments.

Trying to Find Common Ground.

*Smut-Free Stores, William J. Bennett and C. DeLores Tucker.

*Letters of Response by Ronald K. L. Collins, Roger C. Geissler, Scott Cargle, Mary P. Walker.



5. Reading and Writing about Pictures.

The Language of Pictures.

Thinking about Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California.

*Did Dorothea Lange Pose Her Subject for “Migrant Mother”?, A Sample Essay by a Student.

A Short Published Essay on a Photograph.

*Juan Sebastian de Elcano, Richard Benson.

Last Words.



*6. Memoirs: Discovering the Past.

Illustrations.

*I and the Village, Marc Chagall.

*Vietnam Veterans Memorial, AP/Wide World Photos.

*Wedding in the Poitoyu, Robert Doisneau.

Short Views.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Bowen, Marcel Proust, Susan Sontag, Sholem Asch, Alexander Chase, Elbert Hubbard, Christina Rossetti, Evelyn Waugh, Lord Byron, Martial, Oscar Wilde.

*The Love of Evil, St. Augustine.

*Texas 1961, Mary Karr.

*Brooklyn and Limerick, Frank McCourt.

*Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov.

*War Games, Black Elk.

*Writing and Reading, Richard Wright.

*Fan, Doris Kearns Goodwin.

*A Yo-Yo Going Down, Frank Conroy.

*A Life of Learning, Natalie Zemon Davis.

*The Secret, Eudora Welty.

*Powder, Tobias Wolff.

*Incident, Countee Cullen.



7. All in the Family.

Illustrations.

Sonia, Joanne Leonard.

Why One's Parents Got Married, R. Chast.

Mrs. Brown and Catharine, Faith Ringgold.

The Acrobat's Family with a Monkey, Pablo Picasso.

Short Views.

Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy, James Boswell, Jessie Bernard, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Eudora Welty.

The Family, Lewis Coser.

*Rituals of Passage: Weddings, William J. Doherty.

*Scenes from an Intermarriage, Gabrielle Glaser.

Points of a Lifelong Triangle: Reflections of an Adoptive Mother, Florence Trefethen.

Confessions of an Erstwhile Child, Anonymous.

Political Economy and Family Policy, Julie Matthaei.

Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage, Andrew Sullivan.

*The Second Shift: Employed Women Are Putting in Another Day of Work at Home, Arlie Hochschild.

High Horse's Courting, Black Elk.

*Girl, Jamaica Kincaid.

I go Back to May 1937, Sharon Olds.

A Casebook on Divorce.

*Divorce and Our National Values, Peter D. Kramer.

*Older Children and Divorce, Barbara S. Cain.

*The Case against Divorce, Diana Medved.

*Symposium: Death Do Us Part?, Tony Perkins, Joe Cook, Anita Blair, Lynne Gold-Bikin.

*Child of Divorce, Celia E. Rothenberg.



8. Identities.

Illustrations.

Grandfather and Grandchildren Awaiting Evacuation Bus, Dorothea Lange.

Behind the Bar, Birney, Montana, Marion Post Wolcott.

American Gothic, Grant Wood.

*American Gothic, Gordon Parks.

Short Views.

Margaret Mead, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Simone de Beauvoir, Heather Formaini, Israel Zangwill, Lawrence Fuchs, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Vladimir I. Lenin, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Luther King, Jr., Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Chisolm.

Women's Brains, Stephen J. Gould.

*What Barbie Really Taught Me, Yona Zeldis McDonough.

*Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls, Katha Pollitt.

*The Sports Taboo, Malcom Gladwell.

*How Friendship was “Feminized”, Carol Tavris.

The Men We Carry in Our Minds ... and How They Differ from the Real Lives of Most Men, Scott Russell Sanders.

The Male Myth, Paul Theroux.

Goodbye, Saigon, Finally, Andrew Lam.

*Two Ways to Belong in America, Bharati Mukherjee.

*Thoughts of an Oriental Girl, Emily Tsao.

*How America Unsexes the Asian Male, David Mura.

*Why Are Gay Men So Feared?, Dennis Altman.

A Question of Language, Gloria Naylor.

Double Identity, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.

The “Scientific” War on the Poor, Brent Staples.

Snapshot: Lost Lives of Women, Amy Tan.

The Stolen Party, Lilliana Hecker.

Immigrants, Pat Mora.

A Casebook on Race.

*Race, New Columbia Encyclopedia.

*Early Race Theories, Thomas F. Gossett.

*The Conservation of Races, W. E. B. Du Bois.

*Three Is Not Enough, Sharon Begley.

*Race is Over, Stanley Crouch.

*Ethnicity and Disney: It's a Whole New Myth, Edward Rothstein.

*Our Problem Isn't Just about “Race” in the Abstract, Eric Liu.



9. Teaching and Learning.

Illustrations.

American Classroom, Catherine Wagner.

The Lesson—Panning a Career, Ron James.

St. Jerome Studying in His Cell, George de la Tour.

Doonesbury, Gary Trudeau.

Short Views.

Francis Bacon, Paul Goodman, Paul B. Diederich, Hasidic Tale, William Cory, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Emma Goldman, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alan Watts, D. H. Lawrence, Prince Kroptkin, John Ruskin, Confucius, Anonymous Zen Anecdote, Joseph Wood Krutch, Phillis Bottome.

The Myth of the Cave, Plato.

Public and Private Language, Richard Rodriguez.

Why Do American Kids Learn So Little?, Ernest Van den Haag.

Graduation, Maya Angelou.

Order In the Classroom, Neil Postman.

Japanese Education: How Do They Do It?, Merry White.

*On Raising Moral Children, Robert Coles.

How Women Learn, Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule.

The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning in English Composition, Fan Shen.

A Proposal to Abolish Grading, Paul Goodman.

The Phenomenon of Phantom Students: Diagnosis and Treatment, Patricia Nelson Limerick.

Education, E. B. White.

*Interview at Donoghue Elementary School, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman.

The Lesson, Toni Cade Bambara.

Zen and the Art of Burglary, Wu-Tsu Fa-Yen.

A Casebook on Computers in the Schools.

*Unplugged, David Gerlernter.

*Invest in Human Ware, Clifford Stoll.

*Letters Responding to Clifford Stoll, Judith Bruk, Robert P. DeSieno, Robert M. Berkman, Melvin Dubnik.

*How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students' Research Papers, David Rothenberg.

*Letters Responding to David Rothenberg, Richard Cummins, Sharon Stoerger, Kenneth Zanca, Jere L. Bacharach.



10. Work and Play.

Illustrations.

Lettuce Cutters, Salinas Valley, Dorothea Lange.

The Thread Maker, W. Eugene Smith.

All-Americans in Training at Opa-Locka, Florida, Anonymous.

Children, Helen Levitt.

Short Views.

Mark Twain, The Duke of Wellington, Richard Milhouse Nixon, Karl Marx, Smohalla, Lost Star, John Ruskin, Eric Nesterenko, Vince Lombardi, Howard Cosell, George Orwell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ken Burns, Walt Whitman, Bion.

*Work, Bertrand Russell.

Work, Labor, and Play, W. H. Auden.

The Shoeshine Boy, Malcolm X.

*First Wing Panel Made by Girls, Naval Aircraft Factory, Phila., Pa., 1918, Richard Benson.

The Importance of Work, Gloria Steinem.

*The “Mommy Track” Isn't Anti-Woman, Felice N. Schwartz.

* Letters Responding to Felice N. Schwartz, Pat Schroeder, Lisa Brenner, Hope Dellon, Anita M. Harris, Peg McAuley Byrd.

*The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase its Profits, Milton Friedman.

*Life on the Global Assembly Line, Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes.

*“What Do You Mean You Don't Like My Style?”, John S. Fielden.

Delusions of Grandeur, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

*The Bliss of Golf, John Updike.

*Hunters Are Not Gun Nuts, Terry McDonell.

*Playing to Win, Margaret A. Whitney.

Work and Play in Utopia, Sir Thomas More.

*The End of Play, Marie Winn.

*The Unknown Citizen, W. H. Auden.



11. Messages.

Illustrations.

Born Kicking, Graffiti on a Billboard, Jill Posner.

The Letter, Mary Cassatt.

Sapolio, Anonymous.

Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, Richard Hamilton.

Short Views.

Voltaire, Marianne Moore, Derek Walcott, Emily Dickinson, June Jordan, Howard Nemerov, Wendell Berry, Anonymous, Rosalie Maggio, Rudyard Kipling, Benjamin Cardozo, Gary Snyder, Virginia Woolf, Ann Beattie.

Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, Abraham Lincoln.

The Gettysburg Address, Gilbert Highet.

*Yes, Virginia There Is a Santa Claus, Francis Pharcellus Church.

*Yes, Virginia, A Thousand Times Yes, Thomas Vinciguerra.

Politics and the English Language, George Orwell.

*Being Asynchronous, Nicholas Negroponte.

You Are What You Say, Robin Lakoff.

Four-letter Words Can Hurt You, Barbara Lawrence.

*Chip Thrills, Malcolm Gladwell.

Proxemics in the Arab World, Edward T. Hall.

The Workings of Conversational Style, Deborah Tannen.

The Game of the Name, Steven Pinker.

Television and Adolescents: A Teacher's View, Richard Hawley.

*Town Hall Television, Patricia Williams.

Not Waving but Drowning, Stevie Smith.



12. Art and Life.

Illustrations.

The Checkered House, Grandma Moses.

Grandma Moses, Arnold Newman.

Place de l'Europe, Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Daniel Ezralow, Lois Greenfield, Adee.

Short Views.

Theophile Gautier, Samuel Butler, George Sand, Holbrook Jackson, Lady Murasaki, Lillian Hellman, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Ezra Pound, Flannery O'Connor, Anonymous, Miles Davis, Mahalia Jackson, Ansel Adams, Leonardo da Vinci, Grandma Moses, Agnes de Mille, Twyla Tharpe.

*Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.

What Qualities Does a Good Photograph Have?, Lou Jacobs.

*Culturally Variable Ways of Seeing: Art and Literature, Mary Beard.

Of the Sorrow Songs, W. E. B. DuBois.

Three Spirituals: Down, Moses; Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel, Anonymous.

Triumph over Death, John Simon.

King of the Jungle, Perri Klass.

*Sinatra, Not a Myth but a Man, and One Among Many, Margo Jefferson.

*In the Canon, For All the Wrong Reasons, Amy Tan.

*A Worn Path, Eudora Welty.

Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead?, Eudora Welty.

*The Aim Was Song, Robert Frost.



13. Law and Order.

Illustrations.

The Third of May, 1808, Francisco Goya.

Flower Power, Bernie Boston.

Cell of a Model Prison, U.S.A, 1975, Henri Cartier-Bresson.

The Problem We All Live With, Norman Rockwell.

Short Views.

African proverb, Kurt Weiss and Michael F. Milakovich, Niccolo Macchiavelli, G. C. Lichtenberg, Andrew Fletcher, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, William Blake, Anatole France, Louis D. Brandeis, H. L. Mencken, Mae West.

The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson.

Nonviolent Resistance, Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun, Linda M. Hasselstrom.

The Majority Opinion of the Supreme Court in New Jersey v. T.L.O. [On the Right to Search Students], Byron R. White.

Dissent in the Case of New Jersey v. T.L.O., John Paul Stevens.

Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus, Derek Bok.

*The Next Front in the Book Wars, Stephen Bates.

*Frontiersmen Are History, Barbara L. Keller.

*Shot Down, Don B. Kates.

To the Lady, Mitsuye Yamada.

A Casebook on Crime.

*What To Do about Crime, James Q. Wilson.

*Letters Responding to James Q. Wilson, A. N. Barnett, Chris Gersten, Max Winkler



*14. The Millenium.

Illustrations.

*The Millenium Starts Here, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.

*The Day of Wrath, Albrecht Durer.

*Visionary City, William Robinson Leigh.

*Dolly, Remi Benali and Stephen Ferry.

Short Views.

Marcus Aurelius, Alexis de Tocqueville, Lincoln Steffins, Paul Valery, Simone Weil, Faith Popcorn, Adolph Hitler, Julian Barnes, Gunther Grass, The Literary Digest, Lord Kelvin, Jules Verne, Ruth Benedict.

*Revelation, from Chapters 6, 20, and 21, John.

*Millenarian Movements, Miriam Lindsey Levering.

*Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy.

*Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte.

*The Future of Work, Robert B. Reich.

*Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

*August, 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury.

*The Second Coming, William Butler Yeates.

A Casebook on Cloning.

*Genetic Encore: The Ethics of Human Cloning, Robert Wachbroit.

*Of Headless Mice ... and Men, Charles Krauthammer.

*Second Thoughts on Cloning, Laurence H. Tribe.

*Letter Responding to Laurence H. Tribe: Romance of Childbirth, Holly Finn.

*Ewegenics, Jean Bethke Elshtain.



15. Classic Essays.

*Crito, Plato.

A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift.

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Professions for Women, Virginia Woolf.

The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life, May Sarton.

Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Animal Liberation, Peter Singer.



Appendix: A Writer's Glossary


Index

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    The strength of The Little, Brown Reader has always been its distinctive collection of readings and its unmatched apparatus; the Tenth Edition enhances both features, further improving the text's focus on critical thinking and writing. Little Brown works in every classroom—a range of themes and a flexible format encourage a variety of teaching styles. The readings are well balanced with selections by well-known writers, new writers, and students.
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