1．ANNE BRADSTREET 1
The Prologue 2
The Author to Her Book 4
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet,Who Deceased August,1665,Being a Year and Half Old 5
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th,1666 6
As Weary Pilgrim 8
2．BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 10
From The Autobiography 11
3．WASHINGTON IRVING 34
Rip Van Winkle 35
4．JAMES FENIMORE COOPER 54
From The Pioneers 55
5．RALPH WALDO EMERSON 67
From Self-Reliance 68
6．HENRY DAVID THOREAU 83
From Walden 85
7．EDGAR ALLAN POE 102
Ligeia 103
The Cask of Amontillado 119
8．NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 127
Young Goodman Brown 128
The Minister's Black Veil 143
9．HERMAN MELVILLE 158
From Moby-Dick 160
10．HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 179
From Uncle Tom's Cabin 181
11．FREDERICK DOUGLASS 198
From My Bondage and My Freedom 199
12．WALT WHITMAN 211
I Hear America Singing 212
I Saw In Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 212
One's-Self I Sing 213
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 213
When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard Bloom'd 221
13．EMILY DICKINSON 231
Poems(67,214,288,303,328,435,449,465,632,709,712,1129) 232
14．MARK TWAIN 240
From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 241
15．HENRY JAMES 266
From Daisy Miller 267
16．SARAH ORNE JEWETT 306
A White Heron 307
17．MARY E.WILKINS FREEMAN 319
Old Woman Magoun 320
18．STEPHEN CRANE 341
The Open Boat 342
19．CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN 370
The Yellow Wall-Paper 371
20．KATE CHOPIN 390
Désirée's Baby 391
The Story of an Hour 397
A Pair of Silk Stockings 400