1．The Declaration of Independence&Thomas Jefferson 1
2．The Author's Account of Himself&ashington Irving 8
3．Churchill and Roosevelt&Sir Isaiah Berlin 13
4．John Masefield&Beverley Nichols 22
5．Nature&Ralph Waldo Emerson 27
6．Wht I Lived for&Henry David Thoreau 32
7．The Gift of Gift-Giving&Anthony Brandt 38
8．The Indian Character&Francis Parkman 48
9．The Handsome and Deformed Leg&Benjamin Franklin 52
10．Of Studies&Francis Bacon 56
11．American Character&Henry Adams 61
12．A Londoner's Holiday&William Hale White 69
13．Happiness&Thomas Carlyle 73
14．On National Prejudices&Oliver Goldsmith 77
15．Conformity to Nature&T.S.Eliot 83
16．El Doxado&Robert Louis Stevenson 87
17．How Should One Read A Book&Virginia Woolf 93
18．In Search of Our Mothers'Gardens&Alice Walker 103
19．On Travel by Train&John Boynton Priestley 118
20．Sorrows of Millionaire&George Bernard Shaw 124
21．The Image World&Susan Sontag 128
22．Hidden Name and Complex Fate&Ralph Illision 138
23．The Beauty Industry&Aldous Huxley 146
24．On Going Home&Joan Didion 154
25．A Passion for Cities&Jan Morris 160
26．The Far and the Near&Thomas Wolfe 166
27．Alone on a Mountaintop&Jack Kerouac 173
28．Once More to the Lake&E.B.White 185
29．Universities and Their Function&Alfred North Whitehead 195
30．The Historian as Artist&Barbara Tuchman 201