1. The Conscious Reader Pdf

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Preface

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, Praetor Violet

ARYEH LEV STOLLMAN, Die Grosse Liebe (including Leander photo)

URSULA MELENDI, All of Heaven for Love

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES

ANNIE DILLARD, So This Was Adolescence

GREG GRAFFIN, Anarchy in the Tenth Grade

NANCY MAIRS, On Being a Cripple

JORGE LUIS BORGES, Borges and I

ZORA NEALE HURSTON, How it Feels to Be Colored Me

ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Indian Camp

SANDRA CISNEROS, Hips

POETRY

DYLAN THOMAS, The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower

DENISE LEVERTOV, In Mind

ANNE SEXTON, Her Kind

CARL DENNIS, The God Who Loves You

THOMAS LYNCH, The Way We Are

JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

ESSAYS

THE KORAN, Sura 12. Joseph

FICTION

EDWIDGE DANTICAT, Selection from Breath, Eyes, Memory

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Use of Force

ELIZABETH SPENCER, Instrument of Destruction

POETRY

BOB DYLAN, It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

NOTEBOOK

LEO BRAUDY, Arms and the Man

JARED DIAMOND, What are Men Good For?

ESSAYS

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

VIRGINIA WOOLF, The Angel in the House

MARGARET ATWOOD, Fiction: Happy Endings

FICTION

KATE CHOPIN A Respectable Woman

POETRY

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116)

WILLIAM BLAKE, The Garden of Love

RITA DOVE, Beauty and the Beast

GREGORY CORSO, Marriage

E. E. CUMMINGS, I like my body when it is with your

NOTEBOOK

GLORIA STEINEM, Wonder Woman

MARINA WARNER, Fantasy’s Power and Peril

ESSAYS

ROGER EBERT, Great Movies

ERIC SCHLOSSER, Fast Food Nation

RANDALL KENNEDY, The N-Word

JULIAN JOHNSON, Who Needs Classical Music?

JOHN BERGER, Uses of Photography

JORN JACOB ROHWER, The Art of Conversation: How Spoken Words Turn Into Writing, and Arthur Miller: I’ve Never Been a Hero

FICTION

WILLA CATHER, The Sculptor’s Funeral

POETRY

CATE MARVIN, Ocean is a Word in this Poem

WALT WHITMAN, Poets to Come

NOTEBOOK

HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Why I Went Out into the Woods

EDWARD O. WILSON, A Letter to Thoreau

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES

FREEMAN DYSON, Can Science Be Ethical?

ESSAYS

ALAN TENNANT, Great Plains of the Arctic

MATT RIDLEY, Free Will

NILES ELDREDGE, Creationism Isn’t Science

BARBARA GOLDSMITH, Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie

SHIREEN LEE, The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism

POETRY

AFFONSO ROMANO DeSANT’ANNA, Letter to the Dead

NOTEBOOK

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., I Have a Dream

DOROTHY DAY, Martin Luther King

ESSAYS

THOMAS JEFFERSON, The Declaration of Independence

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON AND LUCRETIA COFFIN MOTT, Seneca Falls Convention

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, The Gettysburg Address

WILLIAM FAULKNER, Nobel Prize Award Speech

GEORGE ORWELL, The Principles of Newspeak

CHIEF SEATTLE, Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott

PLATO, The Crito

The Conscious Reader Pdf

MARY GORDON, A Moral Choice

POETRY

REYNOLDS PRICE, Tom, Dying of AIDS

MATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover Beach

GLOBALISM, NATIONALISM, AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

NOTEBOOK

ADAM GOPNIK, The City and the Pillars

ANTHONY SHADID, Legacy of the Prophet

ELIE WIESEL, Why I am an American

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES

RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, Hispanic

SUSAN SONTAG, Regarding the Pain of Others

JAMES BALDWIN, The Discovery of What it Means to be an American

CARSON McCULLERS, Loneliness … an American Malady

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, Of Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared

DRAMA

TONY KUSHNER, Homebody/Kabul

POETRY

TED KOOSER, Prisoners from the Front

KATHA POLLITT, Night Subway

THE EXAMINED LIFE: EDUCATION

NOTEBOOK

MALCOLM X, A Homemade Education

ANTON CHEKHOV, The Bet

ESSAYS

REYNOLDS PRICE, The Great Imagination Heist

JOAN E. HARTMAN, What We Did and Why We Did It

LEWIS THOMAS, Humanities and Science

KEVIN FINNERAN, The Merits of Meritocracy

GEOFFREY NUNBERG , Teaching Students to Swim in the Online Sea

POETRY

LANGSTON HUGHES, Theme for English B

Customer Book Reviews

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and while I have always loved the Conscious Reader in general

By Mbon Aug 05, 2015

I've been an AP Language instructor for about 6 years, and while I have always loved the Conscious Reader in general, I feel that this recent edition dropped the ball a bit in terms of the relevance of the texts. While it maintains many of the more 'timeless' essays, and adds some interesting voices (I particularly like the del Toro & Hogan piece), the editors seemed to make a weak effort in other areas. The 'Popular Culture' section is probably the worst offender, with essays on IM, Tamagotchi, and Twilight that were irrelevant before the book left the printer. Joe Woodard's 'Pumped, Pierced, Painted, and Pagan' is still a great read, but much like Rojas's 'Bootleg Culture,' we're about 20 years past the relevance of the issues they raise. I think the 11th edition was a bit stronger--the loss of Annie Dillard in the 12th edition is a bit negative. The 12th maintains a lot of the strong pieces from the previous edition, but I feel like the editors really need to reevaluate the longevity of many of the pieces they choose--publishing 12-20 year-old pieces on popular culture results in a lot of useless material. I'd love to see more literary journalists in the CR; John McPhee, Susan Orlean, or Tracy Kidder would be just some positive additions. Conscious Reader, I used to love you....now I just kind of like you.

good book but it seems that it has two version?one is much thicker than the other one but they are all same books with completely same content. dunno why but it is still good. almost new.

Amazing, clean, no writing or scratches or missing pages in the book

My book arrived damaged on the spine, with a smudge on the cover, and significant bending in the bottom corner of the book. Really not pleased with any of that.

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great stuff

The book does provide a diverse range of genre. It works well as a literature textbook. However, the quality of the book binding is poor. Students purchase this $50+ textbook only to have chunks of it fall out before the end of the semester. I suppose the publisher sells more textbooks that way, since few books are resold as used books, but I can't recommend it for just that reason.

A very good read! This has made me want to read many other books!

By Andrew Siemeron Sep 27, 2009

I was instructed to purchase this book for my English 1 class. We are using the book in the following manner: 1. Selected a story to read. 2. Read it. 3. Write a review about what we read. 4. Discuss the story and the review. Under this concept I have been forced to read many of the items numerous times. This has been quite fun as many of the pieces are easy to read again and again and maintain interest. The authors and the pieces that were selected for this book were well chosen. While I can't say that I have enjoyed every piece that I have read I have yet to find anything that was poorly written. This is a great book to use to study the English language.

I could see by its cover and pages it was put to good use.

By Yellaon Jul 20, 2016

The book meet it's educational purposes. I could see by its cover and pages it was put to good use.

Good

Purchased for my Niece for college course and she said it was okay and got her through the class.

Everything is good The book can keep a excellent condition

Exactly what I needed for my ENG 102 course

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It is Ok.

Great experience

​I did not expect it to look neat and nice but nevertheless

By Isaiah Gaudinon Aug 31, 2017

I rented the book so of course, ​I did not expect it to look neat and nice but nevertheless, it is worth it.