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 29
4．Samuel Johnson Letter to Lord Chesterfield 37
5．Ol iver Goldsmith National Prejudices 44
6．William Cobbett A Shooter 53
7．Charles Lamb The Convalescent 59
8．William Hazlitt On Familiar Style 70
9．Thomas De Quincey On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth 86
10．Robert Louis Stevenson The Woods and the Pacific 96
11．George Bernard Shaw How Wealth Accumulates and Men Decay 102
12．Alfred North Whitehead Universities and Their Function 111
13．Edward Verrall Lucas The Town Week 119
14．Hilaire Belloc The Crooked Streets 127
15．Max Beerbohm Seeing People Off 139
16．Bertrand Russell What I Have Lived For 149
17．Winston Churchill “I Have Nothing to Offer but Blood，Toil，Tears and Sweat” 155
18．Gilbert Keith Chesterton A Defence of Detective Stories 162
19．William Somerset Maugham Lucidity，Simplicity，Euphony 170
20．Robert Lynd The Vice of Punctuality 187
21．Edward Morgan Forster People 195
22．Virginia Woolf The Death of the Moth 212
23．Alan Alexander Milne Golden Fruit 220
24．Alexander Sutherland Neill Punishment Never Cures Anything 228
25．D.H.Lawrence Whistling of Birds 242
26．Aldous Huxley The Beauty Industry 252
27．John Boynton Priestley The Ironic Principle 263
28．George Orwell Some Thoughts on the Common Toad 268
29．Wystan Hugh Auden Work，Labor，and Play 277
30．Laurie Lee Appetite 283
31．Dylan Thomas Memories of Christmas 289
32．Arthur C.Clarke We’ll Never Conquer Space 301
33．Doris Lessing My Father 315
34．Jan Morris A Passion for Cities 332
35．David Storey Journey Through a Tunnel 339
36．Martin Amis I Am in Blood Stepp’d in So Far 354