CONTENTS 1
PREFACE 1
PART ONE 1
THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM 1
Ⅰ WASHINGTON IRVING(1783—1859) 8
Rip Van Winkle 11
Ⅱ RALPH WALDO EMERSON(1803—1882) 33
Nature(Ⅷ Prospects) 35
Ⅲ NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE(1804—1864) 45
The Scarlet Letter(Chapters 1,17,and 18) 49
Ⅳ WALT WHITMAN(1819—1892) 71
Song of Myself(20,30,31,and 46) 74
I Hear America Singing 78
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me 79
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 80
One's-Self I Sing 81
PART TWO 84
THE AGE OF REALISM 84
Ⅴ MARK TWAIN(1853—1910) 91
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 96
(Chapters 16 and 31) 96
Ⅵ HENRY JAMES(1843—1916) 122
The Art of Fiction(Excerpt) 126
Ⅶ O.HENRY(1862—1910) 141
The Gift of the Magi 143
The Cop and the Anthem 152
Ⅷ THEODORE DREISER(1871—1945) 165
An American Tragedy(Book Two:Chapter 47) 168
PART THREE 192
MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE 192
Ⅸ ROBERT FRoST(1874—1963) 201
Mending Wall 203
The Road Not Taken 205
Fire and Ice 206
Dust of Snow 206
Design 207
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 207
Ⅹ T.S.ELIOT(1888—1965) 210
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock 213
Tradition and the Individual Talent 222
Ⅺ SINCLAIR LEWIS(1885—1951) 236
Babbitt(Chapters 9 and 25) 239
Ⅻ EUGENE O'NEILL(1888—1953) 263
The Hairy Ape(Scenes 2,3,and 8) 266
ⅩⅢ F.SCOTT FITZGERALD(1896—1940) 285
The Great Gatsby(Chapter 7) 289
ⅩⅣ WILLIAM FAULKNER(1897—1962) 326
Barn Burning 329
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 353
ⅩⅤ ERNEST HEMINGWAY(1899—1961) 359
The Killers 363
The Old Man and the Sea(Excerpt) 377
ⅩⅥ JOHN STEINBECK(1902—1968) 398
Of Mice and Men(Chapters 5 and 6)) 401
ⅩⅦ RALPH ELLISON(1914—1994) 427
The Invisible Man(Prologue) 429
ⅩⅧ SAUL BELLOW(1915—) 445
A Father-to-Be 448
ⅩⅨ ARTHUR MILLER(1915—) 464
Death of a Salesman(Excerpt from ActⅡ) 467
Tragedy and the Common Man 494
ⅩⅩ JOSEPH HELLER(1923—) 503
Catch-22(Chapter 40) 505
后记 521