Author Description

The Rhinehart Reader II builds and expands on the guiding principle of Volume I: to provide students with classic essays and stories of the highest rank and lasting worth. The emphasis is on "classic" -- on writers, both contemporary and anicent, who engage us in an ongoing dialogue: who are we? What makes us human? Why do we so often fail to achieve our potential? Why do we sometimes need to laugh at our frailities, to take ourselves a little less seriously? Reading and Writing are immediately related. The essays themselves are grouped according to traditional rhetorical modes, beginning with "Narration" and "Description" and concluding with an extended collection of works illustrating "Argument and persuasion."