CONTENTS 1
1．Spring Flood(An Extract from Daughter of Earth)...Agnes Smedley 1
2．The Colour Caste(An Extract from The Ordeal of Mansart)...W.E.B.Du Bois 14
3．Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx...Frederick Engels 28
4．How We Kept Mother s Day...Stephen Leacock 41
5 Mrs.Packletide s Tiger...Saki 55
6．Unemployment(An Extract from Mary Barton)...Elizabeth Gaskell 67
7．A Tramp Abroad…Mark Twain 82
8．The Rising of the Moon(Ⅰ)...Lady Gregory 98
9．The Rising of the Moon(Ⅱ)...Lady Gregory 114
10．Man Alive...Ralph Fox 130
11．What Life Means to Me(Ⅰ)…Jack London 143
12．What Life Means to Me(Ⅱ)…Jack London 158
13．A Woman Who Scorned Manual Labour(An Extract from The Return of the Native)...Thomas Hardy 172
14．A Typical Forsyte(An Extract from The Man of Property)...John Galsworthy 188
15．Mr.and Mrs.Bennet(An Extract from Pride and Prejudice)...Jane Austen 206
16．About Reading Books(An Extract from Sesame and Lilies)...John Ruskin 225
17．Two Poems:a)Sonnet on Chillon...George Gordon Byron 240
b)The Song of the Shirt...Thomas Hood 240