PART I English Essays and Essayists 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 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 PART II American Essays and Essayists 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
