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