1. Acceptance Speeches 1
Acceptance Speech (I) William Faulkner 1
Acceptance Speech (II) Ernest Hemingway 3
Acceptance Speech (III) John Steinbeck 5
2. Receiving the Nobel Award W. B. Yeats 14
3. Nobel Lecture Toni Morrison 23
4. Life Is in the Living D. H. Lawrence 37
5. The English Characteristics George Orwell 46
6. Living in London Jonathan Raban 58
7. Here Is New York (I) E. B. White 68
8. Here Is New York (II) E. B. White 91
9. The Two Ismo’s Russell Baker 108
10. The Unhappy American Way Bertrand Russell 116
11. The Existential Absurdity Norman Mailer 126
12. The American Family Margaret Mead 140
13. Profession for Women Virginia Woolf 152
14. On Education Albert Einstein 165
15. Thinking as a Hobby William Golding 177
16. Freud and Man's Soul Bruno Bettelheim 193
17. I Have a Dream Martin Luther King，Jr. 204
18. The Atomic Bomb Winston Churchill 215
19. American Foreign Policy Reconsidered Henry Kissinger 229
20. Not Listening to Music E. M. Forster 241
21. The Big House Elizabeth Bowen 252
22. A Communion in the Wood D. H. Lawrence 265
23. Rite of Spring Arthur Miller 272
24. The Beginning of My Life in Cambridge Vladimir Nabokov 281
25. T. S. Eliot John Updike 288
26. Farewell to a Friend Kingsley Amis 295
Answer Keys 305