Top Ten Essays
The Death of the Moth, and other essays, by Virginia Woolf The Death of the Moth Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths; they do not excite that pleasant sense of dark autumn nights and ivy-blossom which the commonest yellow-underwing asleep in the shadow of the curtain never fails to rouse in us.
Total Eclipse by Annie Dillard is the essay that reveals the internal changes that occur to the narrator in the course of the essay. At the same time, the essay helps to understand the internal world, sufferings, problems and changes that occur to the narrator.
David Liittschwager/Barry Lopez Barry Lopez is known for writing about the natural world. His books include Arctic Dreams and Of Wolves and Men, where he explores the relationship between the physical landscape and human culture.
"Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in late 1936 and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948.
David Foster Wallace as depicted on the Simpsons. The definitive cruise essay is long, spellbinding, hilarious and sad. The most famous article about the cruise experience ever written was published in 1994 by Harpers Magazine, written by author David Foster Wallace.It is called "Shipping Out - On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise."
The Braindead Megaphone posted by Jason Kottke Sep 10, 2007 The title essay of George Saunders’ The Braindead Megaphone invites the reader to imagine a person at a party with a megaphone.
In her essay Sally feels that her job is violent yet merciful, and that it is a routine but horrific, and at the same time she loves and hate her job. Tisdale proves through paradox that abortion cannot be viewed simply as good or evil.
The White Album is a 1979 book of essays by Joan Didion. Like her previous book Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album is a collection of works previously published in magazines such as Life and Esquire.