Unit 1
Part 1 On Getting on in the World Jerome K.Jerome 1
Contents 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Exercises 5
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Unit 9
Part 2 Some Remarks on Humor E.B.White 9
Unit 10
Unit 11
Unit 12
Exercises 15
Part 1 Conspiracy Theory? Gregory Shafer 18
Exercises 22
Part 2 The Trouble with Tolerance J.Eric Hazell 27
Exercises 31
Part 1 Once More to the Lake E.B.White 34
Exercises 38
Part 2 "In My Day..." Russell Baker 42
Exercises 46
Part 1 The Chrysanthemums John Steinbeck 49
Exercises 57
Part 2 The Bet Anton Chekhov 60
Exercises 65
Part 1 Living in Tongues Luc Sante 68
Exercises 74
Part 2 Waiting Edna O'Brien 78
Exercises 82
Part 1 The Reach of the Imagination Jacob Bronowski 86
Exercises 92
Part 2 Creationism Isn't Science Niles Eldredge 96
Exercises 101
Part 1 Notes on My Mother Hilton Als 105
Exercises 112
Part 2 My Remarkable Uncle Stephen Leacock 116
Exercises 122
Part 1 The Black Wedding Isaac Bashevis Singer 125
Exercises 131
Part 2 A Country Doctor Franz Kafka 137
Exercises 141
Part 1 Humanism in the 21st Century Babu Gogineni 143
Exercises 151
Part 2 Everything I Like about Religion I Learned from an Atheist Barbara Ehrenreich 155
Exercises 159
Part 1 Art for Art's Sake E.M.Forster 162
Exercises 168
Part 2 Science Fiction: Imaginary Worlds and Real-Life Questions Noel Perrin 172
Exercises 179
Part 1 On the Relation between Art and Society Theodor Adorno 181
Exercises 186
Part 2 The Death of the Author Roland Barthes 190
Exercises 196
Part 1 The Visit to the Museum Vladimir Nabokov 198
Exercises 205
Part 2 The Leonardo Vladimir Nabokov 209
Exercises 216