Chapter 1 Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯培根15611626 .................. 2
Text A Of Studies ..................................................................................4
Text B Of Marriage and Single Life .....................................................9
Chapter 2 Jonathan Swift 乔纳森斯威夫特16671745 ........... 13
Text A A Modest Proposal ..................................................................15
Text B The Spider and the Bee ...........................................................27
Chapter 3 Joseph Addison 约瑟夫艾迪生 16721719 &
Richard Steele 理查德斯梯尔16721729 ......... 34
Text A The Spectators Account of Himself .......................................37
Text B The Spectator Club .................................................................44
Chapter 4 Samuel Johnson 萨缪尔约翰逊17091784 ............ 53
Text A A Letter to Lord Chesterfield ..................................................56
Text B On Idleness .............................................................................60
Chapter 5 Charles Lamb 查尔斯兰姆17751834.................... 65
Text A Dream-Children .....................................................................68
Text B New Years Eve ........................................................................75
Chapter 6 William Hazlitt 威廉哈兹里特17781830 ............. 85
Text A On Familiar Style Excerpt ....................................................87
Text B On Going A Journey Excerpt ...............................................91
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Chapter 7 Thomas De Quincey 托马斯德昆西17851859 101
Text A On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth ............................104
Text B A Happy Home .....................................................................111
Chapter 8 Bertrand Russell 伯特兰罗素18721970 ............. 118
Text A What I Have Lived For .........................................................120
Text B On Human Nature and Politics ...........................................123
Chapter 9 Edward Morgan Forster爱德华摩根福斯特18791970
.................................................................................... 132
Text A My Wood ..............................................................................135
Text B People ...................................................................................142
Chapter 10 Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亚伍尔芙18821941 ......... 153
Text A Street Haunting: A London Adventure Excerpt .................156
Text B A Room of Ones OwnExcerpt ...........................................163
Chapter 11 D. H. Lawrence D. H. 劳伦斯18851930 ................ 179
Text A Whistling of Birds ................................................................182
Text B Give Her a Pattern ...............................................................189
Chapter 12 George Orwell 乔治奥威尔19031950 ................. 196
Text A Some Thoughts on the Common Toad ................................199
Text B Refl ections on Gandhi ..........................................................206
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Chapter 13 Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林17061790 .. 220
Text A The Way to Wealth ...............................................................222
Text B The Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams ................................233
Chapter 14 Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文17831859 ......... 240
Text A Old Christmas ......................................................................242
Text B Westminster Abbey ...............................................................250
Chapter 15 Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫瓦尔多爱默生
18031882 ................................................................ 263
Text A Nature ...................................................................................266
Text B Beauty ...................................................................................271
Chapter 16 Henry David Thoreau 亨利大卫梭罗18171862
.................................................................................... 280
Text A Economy Excerpt ................................................................283
Text B Solitude .................................................................................290
Chapter 17 Henry Louis Menken 亨利路易斯门肯18801956
.................................................................................... 302
Text A The Penalty of Death............................................................304
Text B The Libido for the Ugly .........................................................310
Chapter 18 Elwyn Brooks White 埃尔文布鲁克斯怀特18991985
.................................................................................... 318
Text A Once More to the Lake .........................................................321
Text B Farewell, My Lovely! ............................................................331
PART II
American Essays and Essayists