Part One British Essays 2
1．Francis Bacon 2
Of Friendship 2
2．Joseph Addison 16
Sunday in the Country 16
3．Samuel Johnson 27
Conversation 27
4．Charles Lamb 40
The Convalescent 40
5．Robert Louis Stevenson 56
El Dorado 56
6．John Galsworthy 68
A Green Hill Far Away 68
7．Virginia Woolf 80
On a Faithful Friend8．D.H.Lawrence 93
Whistling of Birds9．John B.Priestley 108
At the Tailor's10．George Orwell 123
Shooting an ElephantPart Two American Essays1．Washington Irving 146
Christmas2．Ralph Waldo Emerson 161
Gifts3．Henry David Thoreau 174
Solitude4．Gertrude Stein 188
The Winner Loses5．Henry Louis Mencken 204
The Feminine Mind6．T.S.Eliot 218
Tradition and the Individual Talent7．James Thurber 233
University Days8．Ernest Hemingway 249
A Good Café on the Place St.-Michel 249
9．Elwyn Brooks White 264
Here is New York 264
10．Joan Didion 285