The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose

Rating:
Summary: excellent collection of essays
Review: If you're looking for a great and eclectic collection of essays, look no further. I've looked at and taught from a lot of them, and this is my favorite. Broadview is a relatively small and sympathetic press that publishes great books in an attractive format--something about the paper, the feel of the book, appeals to me.

The selection is wonderful and gives you all the coverage you'd like, with great variety to race, gender, political perspective, and origin; the short questions after every selection work really well for journal entries, class discussion, or just private food for thought. What's perhaps more important, the book doesn't go overboard like a lot of textbooks that want to give you thousands of pages of stuff to have to choose from, or lengthy theoretical sections on how to read that everyone skips anyway. Broadview, in my mind, got it just right--and at a pretty good price too.