50 Essays: A Portable Anthology

I enjoyed the book. It was a terrific way to gain insight on the writing styles of some of America's most noted writers. I would recommend it to any student or person who wants to gain literary knowledge and become familiar with 20th century American authors.

Right in the middle of a Sarah Vowell story "Shooting Daddy" is part of a story by Amy Tran (at page 436). Pages 421 - 436 are repeated causing confusion when one of those stores is required reading.

This book (50 Essays: A portable Anthology (2nd edition) by Samuel Cohen and published by Bedford/St. Martin should have not left the publisher in this state and customers should not have had to pay full price for this book.

It is just too much trouble to try and get my money back or get some sort of other solution as my daughter needs this book every day as her class is a summer class and meets every day.

Shame on you Bedford/St. Martins and author Sam Cohen who edited this book. If anyone wants to contact the publisher on my behalf I will not agrue.

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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.

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.