Narrative Essays Online

Find links below to some narrative essays:

1. George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant," "A Hanging," and "Why I Write" (in MS Word document)
2. Virginia Woolf's "Death of the Moth"
3. Langston Hughes' "Salvation"
4. Annie Dillard's "The Chase" (PDF)
5. Russell Baker's "Gumption"
6. Dick Gregory's "Shame"
7. Martin Gansberg's "38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call Police" (MS Word)
8. Roger Hoffman's "The Dare"
9. Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue"'
10. Richard Rodriguez's "The Achievement of Desire" (PDF)
11. Joan Didion's "On Going Home"
12. Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman"
13. M. Scott Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain" (Google Books)
14. Alice Walker's "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" (MS Word)
15. Eudora Welty's "The Little Store" (PDF)
16. Tony Cade Bambara's "The Lesson" (MS Word)
17. Maya Angelou's "Graduation" (Scribd excerpt)
18. David Mamet's "The Rake and My Childhood"
19. Judy Ruiz's "Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy"
20. Pete Hamill's "Crack and the Box"
21. Susan Orlean's "The American Male at Age 10"