Ⅰ．American Literature before the Civil War(1607～1860s) 1
Benjamin Franklin 2
Autobiography 3
Washington Irving 12
Rip Van Winkle 13
Ralph Waldo Emerson 30
Nature 32
Henry David Thoreau 37
Walden 38
Edgar Allan Poe 56
Annabel Lee 58
Nathaniel Hawthorne 63
The Minister's Black Veil 66
Walt Whitman 82
One's-self I Sing 86
I Hear America Singing 87
Emily Dickinson 90
I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died— 91
Because I Could Not Stop for Death— 93
Ⅱ．The American Realism and Naturalism(1865～1914) 97
Mark Twain 98
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 100
Henry James 113
Daisy Miller 115
Theodore Dreiser 131
Sister Carrie 133
Ⅲ．American Literature between the Wars(1914～1945) 147
T.S.Eliot 148
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock 149
Ezra Pound 159
A Pact 160
In a Station of the Metro 162
Robert Frost 164
The Road Not Taken 166
Mending Wall 168
F.Scott Fitzgerald 172
The Great Gatsby 173
Ernest Hemingway 190
Hills Like White Elephants 193
William Faulkner 202
A Rose for Emily 205
Eugene O'Neill 219
Long Day's Journey into Night 221
Ⅳ．American Literature since 1945(1945～) 252
Tennessee Williams 253
A Streetcar Named Desire 255
Allen Ginsberg 271
A Supermarket in California 272
John Updike 277
A＆P 279
Thomas Pynehon 289
Entropy 291
Saul Bellow 311
A Father-To-Be 314
Isaac Bashevis Singer 327
Gimpel the Fool 329
Alice Walker 348
Everyday Use 350
Maxine Hong Kingston 362
Woman Warrior:Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts 364
References 382