Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin(1706—1790) 1
The Autobiography 3
Unit 2 Washington Irving(1783—1859) 15
Rip Van Winkle 16
Unit 3 Edgar Allan Poe(1809—1849) 34
The Fall of the House of Usher 36
Unit 4 Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803—1882) 57
Self-Reliance(Excerpt) 58
Unit 5 Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804—1864) 65
Chapter ⅩⅩⅢ The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter 67
Unit 6 Herman Melville(1819—1891) 76
Moby-Dick Chapter cxxxv—The Chase—Third Day 78
Unit 7 19th-Century American Poets(1819—1892) 91
Walt Whitman(1819—1892) 91
Emily Dickinson(1830—1886) 94
Unit 8 Mark Twain(1835—1910) 98
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 101
Unit 9 Theodore Dreiser(1871—1945) 111
The Way of the Beaten:A Harp in the Wind 113
Unit 10 Jack London(1876—1916) 129
The Law of Life 130
Unit 11 Ernest Hemingway(1899—1961) 138
A Farewell to Arms 142
Unit 12 Francis Scott Fitzgerald(1896—1940) 163
The Great Gatsby 167
Unit 13 John Ernest Steinbeek(1902—1968) 185
The Grapes of Wrath 188
Unit 14 William(Cuthbert)Faulkner(1897—1962) 207
Dry September 212
Unit 15 Eugene(Gladstone)O'Neill(1888—1953) 226
Long Day's Journey Into Night 230
Unit 16 Joseph Heller(1923—1999) 259
Catch-22 261
Unit 17 Flannery O'Connor(1925—1964) 273
A Good Man Is Hard to Find 276
Unit 18 Saul Bellow(1915—2005) 295
Seize the Day 301
Unit 19 Allen Ginsberg(1926—1997) 323
Howl 326
Unit 20 Alice Walker(1944—) 336
Everyday Use 339
Bibliography 350