Introduction（导言） 1
British Writers（英国篇） 20
Unit 1 Robert Louis Stevenson(1850-1894) 20
Unit 2 Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936) 41
Unit 3 W.Somerset Maugham(1874-1965) 74
Unit 4 Katherine Mansfield(1888-1923) 83
Unit 5 Virginia Woolf(1882-1941) 94
Unit 6 Doris Lessing(1919-) 107
American Writers（美国篇） 144
Unit 7 Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864) 144
Unit 8 Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849) 160
Unit 9 Charlotte Perkins Gilman(1860-1935) 172
Unit 10 O.Henry(1862-1910) 192
Unit 11 Sherwood Anderson(1876-1941) 203
Unit 12 Stephen Crane(1871-1900) 216
Unit 13 William Faulkner(1897-1962) 233
Unit 14 Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961) 251
Unit 15 John Steinbeck(1902-1968) 277
Unit 16 Eudora Welty(1909-2001) 292
Unit 17 Flannery O'Connor(1925-1964) 308
Unit 18 John Hoyer Updike(1932-2009) 327
Unit 19 Raymond Carver(1938-1988) 338
Unit 20 Alice Walker(1944-) 357
Commentaries（评论篇） 372
1．Lessing's Acceptance Speech for Nobel Prize 372
2．The Origin of Cathedral 381
3．The Element of Suspense in A Good Man Is H to Find 382
4．Southern Sources of A Good Man Is Hard to Find 386
5．Flannery O'Connor and Her Readers 387
6．On The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of A-montillado 391
7．Poe's Art of Transformation in The Cask of Amontillado 395
8．The Meaning of A Rose for Emily 398
9．Hemingway's Heroes and Style 400
10．Dramatic Tone and Symblism of Hemingway's Stories 403
11．A Feminist Reading of Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper 405
12．Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration 407
13．Blackness in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown 409
14．The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale 411
15．John Updike's Canny Tale in A＆P 413
16．Everyday Use:My Sojourn at Parchman Farm 416
17．Zora Neale Hurston:A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan 421
View 18．Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead? 423
References（参考文献） 426