Unit One 1
Text A Essay on America 1
Text B Western Civilisation Faces a Stark Choice 8
Unit Two 15
Text A French and English 15
Text B The Imperturbable British 23
Unit Three 30
Text A Professions for Women 30
Text B The Beauty Industry 39
Unit Four 47
Text A The Road to Happiness 47
Text B Entropy 51
Unit Five 58
Text A Philistines and Philistinism 58
Text B The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life 66
Unit Six 71
Text A Expressing One's Individuality 71
Text B Defining the Authentic Self 77
Unit Seven 85
Text A The Worker as Creator or Machine 85
Text B Where I Lived,and What I Lived for 92
Unit Eight 99
Text A Acceptance Speech for Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 99
Text B On Human Nature and Politics 103
Unit Nine 112
Text A Creativity Will Dominate Our Life 112
Text B Unlock Your Own Creativity 119
Unit Ten 126
Text A Confessions of a Miseducated Man 126
Text B How to Mark a Book 132
Unit Eleven 141
Text A On Getting Off to Sleep 141
Text B A Few Kind Words for Superstition 147
Unit Twelve 155
Text A The Trouble with Television 155
Text B Dolly's False Legacy 161