Chapter 1 Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯·培根(1561–1626)
.................. 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(1667–1745)
........... 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 (1672–1719) &
Richard Steele 理查德·斯梯尔(1672–1729)
......... 34
Text A The Spectator’s Account of Himself
.......................................37
Text B The Spectator Club
.................................................................44
Chapter 4 Samuel Johnson 萨缪尔·约翰逊(1709–1784)
............ 53
Text A A Letter to Lord Chesterfield
..................................................56
Text B On Idleness .............................................................................60
Chapter 5 Charles Lamb 查尔斯·兰姆(1775–1834)....................
65
Text A Dream-Children
.....................................................................68
Text B New Year’s Eve
........................................................................75
Chapter 6 William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特(1778–1830)
............. 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(1785–1859) 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(1872–1970)
............. 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(1879–1970)
....................................................................................
132
Text A My Wood
..............................................................................135
Text B People
...................................................................................142
Chapter 10 Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙(1882–1941)
......... 153
Text A Street Haunting: A London Adventure
(Excerpt) .................156
Text B A Room of One’s Own(Excerpt)
...........................................163
Chapter 11 D. H. Lawrence D. H. 劳伦斯(1885–1930)
................ 179
Text A Whistling of Birds
................................................................182
Text B Give Her a Pattern
...............................................................189
Chapter 12 George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔(1903–1950)
................. 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(1706–1790) .. 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(1783–1859)
......... 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
(1803–1882)
................................................................ 263
Text A Nature
...................................................................................266
Text B Beauty
...................................................................................271
Chapter 16 Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗(1817–1862)
....................................................................................
280
Text A Economy (Excerpt)
................................................................283
Text B Solitude
.................................................................................290
Chapter 17 Henry Louis Menken 亨利·路易斯·门肯(1880–1956)
....................................................................................
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(1899–1985)
....................................................................................
318
Text A Once More to the Lake
.........................................................321
Text B Farewell, My Lovely!
............................................................331
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American Essays and Essayists