Selected Modern English Essays for College Students 英文版PDF电子书下载

1.Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted&Bertrand Russell 1

2.Rivalry&E.V.Lucas 14

3.The Successful Doctor&George Bernard Shaw 20

4.Leisure&Vernon Lee 24

5.Poetry and University Education&Arthur Quiller-Couch 27

6.A Relic&Max Beerbohm 32

7.From the Mouse’s Point of View&Lord Dunsany 40

8.Romance&W.Somerset Maugham 45

9.On Being Hard Up&Jerome K.Jerome 51

10.Confidence&Joseph Conrad 60

11.The Drawing-Room&Mary E.Coleridge 68

12.Evolution&John Galsworthy 71

13.On Poverty&Hilaire Belloc 77

14.On Destroying Books&J.C.Squire 83

15.The Patron and the Crocus&Virginia Woolf 90

16.Fog&G.S.Street 98

17.Fact and Fiction&John Middleton Murry 103

18.Her Own Village&W.H.Hudson 109

19.Signs of Character&A.A.Milne 115

20.The Wife&H.V.Morton 119

21.Conversation&A.C.Benson 124

22.The Return from Siwa&E.M.Forster 133

23.On Running After One’s Hat&G.K.Chesterton 140

24.The Rose&Logan Pearsall Smith 146

25.Sunday Before the WarA.Clutton-Brock 150

26.Laughter in Court&Beverley Nichols 154

27.The Traveller’s Eye View&Aldous Huxley 158

28.Fifield Ashes&Maurice Henry Hewlett 165

29.The Barber&Arnold Bennett 171

30.Marriage&Y.Y 178

31.Set Free&R.B.Cunninghame Graham 184

32.This England&Edward Thomas 191

33.On Man’s Extravagance&J.B.Priestley 198

34.Actors&Augustine Birrell 204

35.An Afternoon Walk in October&William Hale White 214

36.On Talking to One’s Self&A.G.Gardiner 218

37.Cloud&Alice Meynell 223

38.Selections from The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft&George Gissing 228

39.Boswell’s Life of Johnson&George Gordon 236

40.Bed-Books and Night-Lights&H.M.Tomlinson 245

Appendix 255

1.The English Essayist&John Freeman 255

2.The Art of the Essayist&A.C.Benson 266

3.The Defects of English Prose&Arthur Clutton-Brock 275