1．Acceptance Speeches 1
Acceptance Speech(Ⅰ) William Faulkner 1
Acceptance Speech(Ⅱ) Ernest Hemingway 3
Acceptance Speech(Ⅲ) John Steinbeck 5
2．Receiving the Nobel Award W.B.Yeats 14
3．Nobel Lecture Toni Morrison 23
4．Life Is in the Living D.H.Lawrence 37
5．The English Characteristics George Orwell 46
6．Foreword to A Writer's Britain Margaret Drabble 58
7．Living in London Jonathan Raban 68
8．Here Is New York(Ⅰ) E.B.White 79
9．Here Is New York(Ⅱ) E.B.White 101
10．The Unhappy American Way Bertrand Russell 118
11．The Existential Absurdity Norman Mailer 128
12．The American Family Margaret Mead 142
13．Professions for Women Virginia Woolf 154
14．I Have a Dream Martin Luther King,Jr 167
15．On Education Albert Einstein 178
16．Literary Reviews and Reviewers Doris Lessing 190
17．Thinking as a Hobby William Golding 201
18．Freud and Man's Soul Bruno Bettelheim 217
19．The Atomic Bomb Winston Churchill 228
20．American Foreign Policy Reconsidered Henry Kissinger 242
21．Phantoms of Crisis Saul Bellow 254
22．Not Listening to Music E.M.Forster 265
23．The Big House Elizabeth Bowen 276
24．A Communion in the Wood D.H.Lawrence 289
25．Rite of Spring Arthur Miller 296
26．The Beginning of My Life in Cambridge Vladimir Nabokov 305
27．T.S.Eliot John Updike 312
28．Farewell to a Friend Kingsley Amis 319
Key to Exercises 329