Chapter 1 William Shakespeare 3
Chapter 2 John Milton 12
Chapter 3 Daniel Defoe 19
Chapter 4 Jonathan Swift 29
Chapter 5 William Wordsworth 38
Chapter 6 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 44
Chapter 7 Jane Austen 50
Chapter 8 Charles Dickens 58
Chapter 9 Alfred Tennyson 72
Chapter 10 Thomas Hardy 77
Chapter 11 George Bernard Shaw 87
Chapter 12 Joseph Conrad 97
Chapter 13 E.M.Forster 110
Chapter 14 Thomas Stearns Eliot 118
Chapter 15 James Joyce 126
Chapter 16 D.H. Lawrence 133
Chapter 17 William Golding 150
Chapter 18 Doris Lessing 167
Chapter 19 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul 177
Chapter 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 189
Chapter 2 Walt Whitman 199
Chapter 3 Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 204
Chapter 4 Mark Twain 207
Chapter 5 Henry James 213
Chapter 6 Sherwood Anderson 228
Chapter 7 F. Scott Fitzgerald 239
Chapter 8 William Faulkner 254
Chapter 9 Ernest Miller Hemingway 266
Chapter 10 Ezra Pound 272
Chapter 11 Wallace Stevens 277
Chapter 12 Robert Frost 282
Chapter 13 William Carlos Williams 287
Chapter 14 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill 292
Chapter 15 Tennessee Williams 300
Chapter 16 John Lawrence Ashbery 309
Chapter 17 Arthur Miller 316
Chapter 18 Joseph Heller 329
Chapter 19 Toni Morrison 341
Chapter 20 Maxine Hong Kingston 350
Chapter 21 Amy Tan 362
Bibliography 366