《愛語學(xué)堂·中外文學(xué)名篇選讀系列：20世紀(jì)英美文學(xué)作品精選與導(dǎo)讀（上冊·散文篇）》全部作品均系20世紀(jì)著名作家的20篇散文佳作，題材涉及文化、人生、讀書、自然、教育、家庭等多個方面。每個話題包含2篇文章，篇幅短小、題材廣泛、真實(shí)自然、情文并茂；原文后附有思考題、討論習(xí)題，能夠啟發(fā)和引導(dǎo)學(xué)生創(chuàng)造性地解讀文本，也有助于課堂上實(shí)施探究式、討論式、參與式教學(xué)方法。

　　《愛語學(xué)堂·中外文學(xué)名篇選讀系列：20世紀(jì)英美文學(xué)作品精選與導(dǎo)讀（上冊·散文篇）》適應(yīng)英語專業(yè)一、二年級學(xué)生和理工科專業(yè)本科生和研究生的文學(xué)愛好者課程教學(xué)或課外閱讀使用，是閱讀者初步學(xué)會欣賞名家名篇的適宜讀本，可為銜接短篇小說閱讀奠定基礎(chǔ)。

Youth
University Days
How Should One Read a Book
Outside Literature
Late Summer
A Word for Autumn
The Windmill
Niagara Falls
Advice to Writers
Why a Classic is a Classic
On Laziness
Going Out for a Walk
Free!
What I Think and Feel at 25
On the Difference between Wit and Humor
What is Wrong with Our System of Education?
The Libido for the Ugly
The Crooked Streets
The Pleasures of Ignorance
What Life Means to Me
Supplementary Reading
Peace in the Atomic Age
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
The Great Arsenal of Democracy
Appendix： Rhetorical Terms
References

　　Here， inRobinson Crusoe， we are trudging a plain high road； one thing happens afteranother； the fact and the order of the fact is enough. But if the open air and adventuremean everything to Defoe they mean nothing to Jane Austen. Here is thedrawing-room， and people talking， and by the many mirrors of their talk revealingtheir characters. And if， when we have accustomed ourselves to the drawing-roomand its reflections， we turn to Hardy， we are once more spun around. The moors areround us and the stars are above our heads. The other side of the mind is nowexposed-the dark side that comes uppermost in solitude， not the light side thatshows in company. Our relations are not towards people， but towards Nature anddestiny. Yet different as these worlds are， each is consistent with itself. The maker ofeach is careful to observe the laws of his own perspective and however great a strainthey may put upon us they will never confuse us， as lesser writers so frequently do，by introducing two different kinds of reality into the same book. Thus to go from onegreat novelist to another-from Jane Austen to Hardy， from Peacock to Trollope，from Scott to Meredith-is to be wrenched and uprooted； to be thrown this wayand then that. To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable notonly of great finesse of perception， but of great boldness of imagination if you aregoing to make use of all that the novelist-the great mist-gives you.