The Little, Brown Reader,one of the best-known and most respected thematic readers available today, continues its tradition of excellence by bringing together contemporary and classic readings with extensive critical reading and writing instruction and numerous illustrations. 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.

Table of Contents:
Preface.   1. A Writer Reads. Previewing. Skimming. J.H.Plumb The Dying Family. Highlighting, Underlining, Annotating. Summarizing. Critical Thinking: Analyzing the Text. Tone and Persona. 2. A Reader Writes. C. S. Lewis We Have No "Right to Happiness". Responding to an Essay. The Writing Process. Keeping a journal. Questioning the Text Again. Summarizing, Jottings, Outlines, and Lists. Getting Ready to Write a Draft. Draft of an Essay: On We Have No Right to Happiness. Revising and Editing a Draft. A Revised Draft: Persuasive Strategies in C. S. Lewis’s “We Have. No Right to Happiness”. Rethinking the Thesis: Preliminary Notes. The Final Version: Style and Argument: An Examination of C. S. Lewis’s. “We Have No Right to Happiness”. A Brief Overview of the Final Version. 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. Guidelines for Conducting the Interview and Writing the Essay. Topics for Writing. Using Quotations. * Avoiding Plagiarism. A Checklist for Avoiding Plagiarism. * Mark Edmundson How Teachers Can Stop Cheaters. 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. Examples. Testimony. Statistics. How Much Evidence Is Enough? Avoiding Fallacies. Drafting an Argument. Imagining an Audience. Getting Started. Writing a Draft. Revising a Draft. Organizing an Argument. A Word about Beginnings and Endings. Persona and Style. An Overview: An Examination of an Argument. Richard Rhodes Hollow Claims about Fantasy Violence. The Analysis Analyzed. * Two Arguments for Analysis. Gary Shapiro Lasting Impressions--Downloading Is Illegal. Cary Sherman Perspective: Honest Talk about Downloads. ÖA Checklist for Revising Drafts of Arguments. 5. Reading and Writing about Pictures. The Language of Pictures. Writing about Art. * Writing About an Advertisement. * Writing About a Political Cartoon. Lou Jacobs, What Qualities Does a Good Photograph Have? Sample Analyses of Pictures. Joan Daremo, Edward Munch’s The Scream. James Twitchell, She’s Very Charlie. Thinking about Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California 94. Two Sample Essays by Students: Tom Wu  Did Dorothea Lange Pose Her Subject for Migrant Mother? * Zoe Morales  Dancing at Durango. Last Words: Photographers on Photography. 6. All in the Family. Illustrations. Joanne Leonard, Sonia. Pablo Picasso, The Acrobat's Family with a Monkey. Short Views: Anonymous (William James?), Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy, James Boswell, Jessie Bernard, Jane Austen. Lewis Coser, The Family. * Francis Bacon, Of Marriage and Single Life. Joan Didion, On Going Home. Gabrielle Glaser, Scenes from an Intermarriage. Anonymous, Confessions of an Erstwhile Child. Julie Matthaei, Political Economy and Family Policy. Frank McCourt, Brooklyn and Limerick. Katharine Graham, On Money, Religion, and Sex. Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift: Employed Women Are Putting in Another Day of Work at Home. * Judy Brady, I Want Wife. Black Elk, High Horse's Courting. Josh Quitner, Keeping Up With Your Kids. Celia E. Rothenberg, Child of Divorce. Jamaica Kincaid, Girl (story). Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays (poem). * A Casebook on Gay Marriage. * Ellen Willis, Can Marriage Be Saved? Andrew Sullivan, Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage. * Lisa Schiffren, Gay Marriage, an Oxymoron. * Anonymous Editorial, Gay Marriage in the States. * Letters of Response by Florian Gahbauer, Marcy E. Feller, (Rev.) Joseph Waters, (Rev.) Bill Banuch, and Steven Tiger. 7. Identities. Illustrations. Dorothea Lange, Grandfather and Grandchildren Awaiting Evacuation Bus. Marion Post Wolcott, Behind the Bar, Birney, Montana. Short Views: Margaret Mead, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Simone de Beauvoir, Israel Zangwill, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Vladimir I. Lenin, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Luther King, Jr., Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Chisolm. Stephen J. Gould, Women's Brains. Katha Pollitt, Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls. Paul Theroux, The Male Myth. Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America. Emily Tsao, Thoughts of an Oriental Girl. Gloria Naylor, A Question of Language. Jean Wakatsuki Houston, Double Identity. * Richard Rodriguez (with Scott London), A View from the Melting Pot. * David Brooks, People Like Me. Brent Staples, The “Scientific" War on the Poor. Amy Tan, Snapshot: Lost Lives of Women. Pat Mora, Immigrants (poem). A Casebook on Race. Columbia Encyclopedia, Race. Sharon Begley, Three Is Not Enough. Shelby Steele, Hailing While Black. * Randall Kennedy. Blind Spot. Stanley Crouch, Race Is Over. Countee Cullen, Incident (poem). 8. Teaching and Learning. Illustrations. Winslow Homer, Blackboard. Ron James, The Lesson--Planning a Career. Short Views: Francis Bacon, Paul Goodman, Paul B. Diederich, Hasidic Tale, William Cory, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Emma Goldman, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alan Watts, D. H. Lawrence, Prince Kroptkin, John Ruskin, Confucius, Anonymous Zen Anecdote, Joseph Wood Krutch, Phyllis Bottome. Plato, The Myth of the Cave. Richard Wright, Writing and Reading. Richard Rodriguez, Public and Private Language. Maya Angelou, Graduation. Neil Postman, Order in the Classroom. Robert Coles, On Raising Moral Children. Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule, How Women Learn. Fan Shen, The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition. David Gelernter, Unplugged. Hubert B. Herring, On the Eve of Extinction: Four Years of High School. Nadya Labi, Classrooms for Sale. Amy Tan, In the Canon, for All the Wrong Reasons. * Dave Eggers, Serve or Fail. * Brent Staples, What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace. *Stanely Fish, Why We Built the Ivory Tower. Wu-tsu Fa-yen, Zen and the Art of Burglary (story). Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson (story). * A Casebook on Testing and Grading. Paul Goodman, A Proposal to Abolish Grading. Diana Ravitch, In Defense of Testing. * Joy Alonso, Two Cheers for Examinations. 9. Work and Play. Illustrations. Dorothea Lange, Lettuce Cutters, Salinas Valley. Helen Levitt, Children. 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, Walt Whitman, Ken Bums, Bion. Bertrand Russell, Work. W. H. Auden, Work, Labor, and Play. John Updike, Early Inklings. Gloria Steinem, The Importance of Work. Felice N. Schwartz, The "Mommy Track" Isn't Anti-Woman. Pat Schroeder, Lois Brenner, Hope Dellon, Anita M. Harris, Peg McAvley. Byrd, Letters Responding to Felice N. Schwartz. Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,  Delusions of Grandeur. Sir Thomas More, Work and Play in Utopia. Black Elk, War Games. Marie Winn, The End of Play. * James Paul Gee, 46rom Video Games, Learning About Learning. James C. McKinley, It Isn’t Just a Game: Clues to Avid Rooting. * John Updike, A&P (story). W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen (poem). 10. Messages. Illustrations. Jill Posner, Born Kicking, Graffiti on Billboard, London. Anonymous, Sapolio. Short Views: Voltaire, Marianne Moore, Derek Walcott, Jane Wagner Emily Dickinson,. Howard Nemerov, Wendell Berry, Anonymous, Rosalie Maggio, Benjamin Cardozo, Gary Snyder, Virginia Woolf, Ann Beattie. Abraham Lincoln, Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Gilbert Highet, The Gettysburg Address. Robin Lakoff, You Are What You Say. Barbara Lawrence, Four-letter Words Can Hurt You. Edward T. Hall, Proxemics in the Arab World. Deborah Tannen, The Workings of Conversational Style. Steven Pinker, The Game of the Name. James Twitchell, The Marlboro Man. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. * Melinda Ledden Sidak  Mob Mentality: Why Intellectuals Love The Sopranos. Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning (poem). A Casebook on E-Mail. Nicholas Negroponte, Being Asynchronous. Judith Kleinfeld, Check Your E-Mail; You May Be Fired. Bob Nixon, Please Don’t E-Mail Me about This Article. Ed Boland, In Modern E-Mail Romances “Trash” Is Just a Click Away. 11. Law and Order. Illustrations. Bernie Boston, Flower Power. Norman Rockwell, The Problem We All Live With. Short Views: African proverb, Kurt Weis and Michael F. Milakovich, Niccol Machiavelli, G. C. Lichtenberg, Andrew Fletcher, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, William Blake, Anatole France, Louis D. Brandeis, H. L. Mencken, Mae West. Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence. Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience. Martin Luther King Jr., Nonviolent Resistance. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail. Cathy Booth Thomas, A New Scarlet Letter. * Michael Chabon, Solitude and the Fortresses of Youth. * Chesa Boudin, Making Time Count. Derek Bok,  Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus. Michael Levin, The Case for Torture. George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant. John (?), The Woman Taken in Adultery. Mitsuye Yamada  To the Lady (poem). * 12. Consuming Desires. Illustrations. Grant Wood, American Gothic. Richard Hamilton,  Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing. Short Views: Chinese proverb, Hebrew Bible, William Blake, Marcel Duchamp,. Anonymous, George Bernard Shaw, G. C. Lichtenberg, Diane White, Anonymous, Alison Lurie, Rudi Gernreich, Kenneth Clark, Le Corbusier, Ralph Waldo Emerson. * Peter Farb and George Armelagos, The Patterns of Eating. * David Gerard Hogan, Fast Food. * Jacob Alexander, Nitrites: Preservative or Carcinogen? * Donna Maurer, Vegetarianism. Paul Goldberger, Quick! Before It Crumbles! Peter Singer, Animal Liberation. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal. Jimmy Carter,  My Boyhood Home. Jane Jacobs,  A Good Neighborhood. * E. B. White,  The Door (story). James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (poem). 13. Body and Soul. Illustrations. Henri Cartier-Bresson, Place de l’Europe, 1932. Ken Gray, Lifted Lotus. Short Views: W. B. Yeats, Napoleon, Walt Whitman, Woody Allen, Epictetus, D. H. Lawrence, John Locke, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Plato, Samuel Johnson, Frederick Douglass, Ray Charles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Nigerian proverb, Jesus. Anonymous, Muddy Road (story). D. T. Suzuki, What Is Zen? Langston Hughes, Salvation. Henry David Thoreau, Economy. Natalie Angier,  Bully for You: Why Push Comes to Shove. * Robert Santos, My Men. * Rogelio R. Gomez, Foul Shots. Plato, Crito. Robert Frost, Design (poem). Appendix: A Writer's Glossary.   Acknowledgements.   Index.