Part One Europe 3
Unit 1 3
Text A The Jewels of M.Lantin 4
Text B War 15
Text C The Works of Guy de Maupassant 19
Unit 2 27
Text A Everything Will Change for the Better 28
Text B Let Him Not Die! 36
Text C Anne Frank 40
Unit 3 46
Text A Gooseberries(Excerpted) 47
Text B Araby 57
Text C Chekhov's Last Days 64
Part Two North America 73
Unit 4 73
Text A The Office 74
Text B To Set Our House in Order 82
Text C The Office 87
Unit 5 95
Text A The Clockmaker 96
Text B The Reading Public:A Book Store Study 104
Text C Nature and Human Nature 108
Part Three Oceania 115
Unit 6 115
Text A The Drover's Wife 116
Text B The Man From Snowy River 129
Text C The Australian Bush 134
Unit 7 138
Text A Miss Brill 139
Text B The Doll's House 149
Text C Katherine Mansfield 157
Part Four Asia 165
Unit 8 165
Text A Find Thyself:Chuangtse 166
Text B The Cup of Humanity 175
Text C "Cultivating Reality" 182
Unit 9 187
Text A Preface to Call to Arms 188
Text B "What Is Essential Is That Names Be Right" 198
Text C Lu Xun:A Chinese Writer for All Times 204
Unit 10 208
Text A On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning 209
Text B Snow Country(Excerpted) 218
Text C Japan,The Ambiguous,and Myself 224
Part Five South America 233
Unit 11 233
Text A An Act of Vengeance 234
Text B Continuity of Parks 246
Text C Discovering Stories That Need to Be Told 248
Unit 12 253
Text A The Circular Ruins 254
Text B Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses 264
Text C Faith,Irrelevance and Magical Realism 268
Keys to the Exercises 272
Bibliography 282