Contents前言Jonathan EdwardsPersonal Narrative 2
Benjamin Franklinfrom Autobiography 33
Hector St John de Crevecoeurfrom Letters from an American Farmer 58
Philip FreneauThe Wild Honey Suckle 71
The Indian Burying-Ground 72
Washington Irvingfrom The Sketch Book 78
James Fenimore Cooperfrom The Pioneers 146
Ralph Waldo Emersonfrom Nature 180
from The American Scholar 195
Edgar Allan PoeThe Raven 209
The Fall of the House of Usher 220
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA Psalm of Life 261
The Tide Rises，the Tide Falls 263
The Slave′s Dream 265
Henry David Thoreaufrom Walden 271
Nathaniel Hawthornefrom The Scarlet Letter 305
Herman Melvillefrom Moby-Dick 367
Walt Whitmanfrom Song of Myself 437
I Hear America Singing 456
I Sit and Look Out 458
O Captain，My Captain 460
Emily DickinsonBecause I could not stop for Death 467
I heard a Fly buzz—when I died 468
My life closed twice before its close 470
As imperceptibly as Grief 471
Mine—by the Right of the White Election 472
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! 473
A narrow Fellow in the Grass 474
Apparently with no surprise 476
I died for Beauty—but was scarce 477
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant 478
I like to see it lap the Miles 479
The Brain—is wider than the sky 480
Harriet Beecher Stowefrom Uncle Tom′s Cabin 484
William Dean Howellsfrom The Rise of Silas Lapham 506
Mark Twainfrom The Gilded Age 528
from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 561
Henry JamesThe Art of Fiction 602
from The Ambassadors 645
Bret HarteTennessee’s Partner 672
Hamlin GarlandMrs.Ripley’s Trip 692
Stephen Cranefrom The Red Badge of Courage 716
Fr ank Norrisfrom The Octopus 767
Theodore Dreiserfrom Sister Carrie 797
Jack Londonfrom Martin Eden 843
The Law of Life 863