Unit 1
Lesson 1 Andrew H.Malcolm:Dad 1
Lesson 2 Sherwood Anderson:Discovery of a Father 7
Unit 2
Lesson 3 Steve Tesich:Focusing on Friends 14
Lesson 4 Judith Viorst:Friends,Good Friends—and Such Good Friends 19
Unit 3
Lesson 5 Carolyn B.Raphael:Three Unforgettable Professors 26
Lesson 6 James Thurber:University Days 30
Unit 4
Lesson 7 Mark Twain:Advice to Youth 38
Lesson 8 Neil Postman:My Graduation Speech 44
Lesson 9 E.M.Forster:My Wood 50
Unit 5
Lesson 10 Barbara Ehrenreich:The Cult of Busyness 57
Lesson 11 Sydney J.Harris:Climbing the Mountain of Success 62
Unit 6
Lesson 12 J.H.Plumb:The Dying Family 66
Lesson 13 Lewis Coser:The Family 73
Unit 7
Lesson 14 Scott Smallwood:Divorce and a Haircut 77
Lesson 15 Andrew Sullivan:Here Comes the Groom:A(Conservative)Case for Gay Marriage 83
Unit 8
Lesson 16 Yi-Fu Tuan:American Space,Chinese Place 88
Lesson 17 Edward T.Hall:The Arab World 92
Unit 9
Lesson 18 Annie Dillard:The Chase 102
Unit 10
Lesson 19 Michael Korda:How to Obtain Power 108
Lesson 20 Bertrand Russell:Work 114
Unit 11
Lesson 21 George Orwell:Shooting an Elephant 122
Unit 12
Lesson 22 Abraham Lincoln:The Gettysburg Address 131
Lesson 23 Martin Luther King,Jr.:I Have a Dream 136
Unit 13
Lesson 24 Kate Chopin:The Story of an Hour 144
Lesson 25 Deborah Tannen:Report-talk in Private 150
Lesson 26 K.C.Cole:Women and Physics 154
Unit 14
Lesson 27 Harold Krents:Darkness at Noon 160
Lesson 28 Leonard Kriegel:Taking It 165
Unit 15
Lesson 29 E.B.White:The Ring of Time 171
Lesson 30 Malcolm Cowley:Vices and Pleasures:The View from 80 178
Unit 16
Lesson 31 Virginia Woolf:The Death of the Moth 187
Lesson 32 Lewis Thomas:On Natural Death 192
Major Reference Books 197