1 Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400) 1
The Canterbury Tales 2
2 William Shakespeare(1564-1616) 7
Hamlet 8
Romeo and Juliet 11
Sonnet 18 15
3 Francis Bacon(1561-1626) 17
Of Marriage and Single Life 18
Of Studies 20
4 17th-Century British Poets 23
John Donne(1572-1631) 23
John Milton(1608-1674) 27
5 Adventure Fiction Writers 35
Daniel Defoe(1660-1731) 35
Jonathan Swift(1667-1745) 42
6 Romantic Poets（Ⅰ） 52
William Blake(1757-1827) 52
Robert Burns(1759-1796) 57
William Wordsworth(1770-1850) 62
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834) 65
7 Jane Austen(1775-1817) 70
Pride and Prejudice 71
8 Romantic Poets（Ⅱ） 82
George Gordon Byron(1788-1824) 82
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822) 86
John Keats(1795-1821) 91
9 Charlotte Brontё（1816-1855） 96
Jane Eyre 97
10 Charles Dickens(1812-1870) 110
Great Expectations 111
11 Victorian Poets 125
Alfred Tennyson(1809-1892) 125
Robert Browning(1812-1889) 128
Matthew Arnold(1822-1888) 132
12 Thomas Hardy(1840-1928) 137
Tess of the D'Urbervilles 138
13 Modern Dramatists 149
Oscar Wilde(1854-1900) 149
George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) 158
14 Joseph Conrad(1857-1924) 166
The Lagoon 167
15 20th-Century British Poets（Ⅰ） 180
T.S.Eliot(1888-1965) 180
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939) 190
16 Modernist Novelists（Ⅰ） 194
James Joyce(1882-1941) 194
Virginia Woolf(1882-1941) 201
17 Modernist Novelists（Ⅱ） 205
D.H.Lawrence(1885-1930) 205
18 E.M.Forster(1879-1970) 221
Howards End 222
19 William Golding(1911-1993) 232
Lord of the Flies 233
20 Doris Lessing(1919-2013) 244
AWoman on a Roof 245
21 John Fowles(1926-2005) 255
The French Lieutenant's Woman 256
22 20th-Century British Poets（Ⅱ） 265
Dylan Thomas(1914-1953) 265
Philip Larkin(1922-1985) 269
Ted Hughes(1930-1998) 271
Seamus Heaney(1939-2013) 274
23 Antonia Susan Byatt(1936-) 278
Rose-coloured Teacups 279
24 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul(1932-) 286
A Bend in the River 287
25 Graham Swift(1949-) 295
Our Nicky's Heart 296
26 Kazuo Ishiguro(1954-) 306
The Remains of the Day 307
27 Ian McEwan(1948-) 321
The Child in Time 322
28 Julian Barnes(1946-) 331
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters 332