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CONTENTS 1

前言 1

1．Francis Bacon Of Studies 1

2．Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country 7

3．Joseph Addison Sunday in the Country 30

4．Samuel Johnson Rambler 4—On Fiction 38

5．Oliver Goldsmith National Prejudices 54

6．William Cobbett A Shooter 62

7．Charles Lamb The Convalescent 68

8．William Hazlitt On Familiar Style 79

9．Thomas De Quincey On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth 96

10．Robert Louis Stevenson The Woods and the Pacific 106

11．Alfred North Whitehead Universities and Their Function 112

12．Edmund Verral Lucas The Town Week 120

13．Hilaire Belloc The Crooked Streets 128

14．Winston Churchill “I Have Nothing to Offer but Blood，Toil， Tears，and Sweat” 141

15．Max Beerbohm Seeing People Off 147

16．Bertrand Russell What I Have Lived For 157

17．Gilbert Keith Chesterton A Defence of Detective Stories 162

18．William Somerset Maugham Lucidity，Simplicity，Euphony 170

19．Robert Lynd The Vice of Punctuality 188

20．Edward Morgan Forster People 196

21．Virginia Woolf The Death of the Moth 214

22．Alan Alexander Milne Golden Fruit 222

23．Alexander Southerland Neil Punishment Never Cures Anything 230

24．Aldous Huxley The Beauty Industry 245

25．John Boynton Priestley The Ironic Principle 256

26．George Orwell Politics and the English Language 260

27．Wystan Hugh Auden Work．Labour and Play 283

28．Arthur C．Clarke We'll Never Conquer Space 288

29．Jan Morris A Passion for Cities 303

30．David Storey Journey Through a Tunnel 309