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Ⅰ.The Great Economic Crisis in 1929…………William Z. Foster 1
Ⅱ.The Hall-marks of American……………H.L.Mencken 20
Ⅲ.Rivalry………………………E.V.Lucas 36
Ⅳ.An Ideal Husband…………Oscar Wilde 52
Ⅴ.My Books…………………George Gissing 69
Ⅵ.In the Death Chamber…Emily Brontё 83
Ⅵ.The Samphire Gatherer…W.H.Hudson 102
Ⅷ.Mrs.Poyser Has Her Say Out……………………George Eliot 114
Ⅸ.The Isles of Greece…………George Gordon Byron 135
Ⅹ.Letter to Mr.Emanuel Bloch……………………Ethel Rosenberg 152
Ⅺ.How I Became a Socialist…William Morris 172
Ⅻ.The Woman Pays………Thomas Hardy 194
ⅫⅠ.Birth of a Forsyte………John Galsworthy 214
ⅪⅤ.Downfall of Despotism……Thomas Paine 230
ⅩⅤ.On Familiar Style…………William Hazlitt 249
ⅩⅥ.A Modest Proposal………Jonathan Swyft 268