Part Ⅰ Essays 散文，小品文，随笔，评论 3
Life is a Chess-board/Thomas Henry Huxley 人生是一盘棋 3
Best of Times/Charles Dickens 最好的时代 5
Equality and Greatness/George Bernard Shaw 平等与伟大 7
Great Expectations/Charles Dickens 远大前程 9
The Doer of Deeds/Theodore Roosevelt 有作为的人 11
American Dream/Corinne Brown 美国梦 13
Shakespeare/Samuel Johnson 莎士比亚 15
Heart of a Stranger/Margaret Laurence 陌生者之心 17
Thoughts in a Grave Yard/Joseph Addison 墓园沉思 20
I Have As Much Soul As You/Charlotte Brontё 我的心灵一样丰富 23
Frankness/Robert E. Lee 诚实 26
Letter to a Young Friend/Benjamin Franklin 给年轻朋友的一封信 29
The Meaning of Life/J.B.Priestley 生命的意义 32
Love Your Life/Henry David Thoreau 热爱生活 35
Build Me a Son/Douglas Mac Arthur 塑造我儿 38
The Pleasant Family/William Somerset Maugham 幸福的一家 41
Two Views of Time/R.Grudin 两种时间观念 44
Youth/Samuel Ullman 青春 46
Advice to a Young Man/Robert J. Burdette 给一位青年的忠告 49
What is Immortal/William Hazlitt 论不朽 52
The English Character/Oliver Goldsmith 英国人的性格 56
The Use of History/A.L. Rowse 历史的用处 58
The Study of Words/Wilfred Funk Norman Lewis 学习词汇的重要性 61
Did You Deal with Fortune Fairly/Lord Chesterfield 你对命运公平吗 64
The Lesson of a Tree/Walter Whitman 一棵树的启示 68
The Joys of Writing/Winston Churchill 写作的快乐 72
Three Passions/Bertrand Russell 三种激情 75
The Americans/Bradford Smith 美国人 79
The English and the Americans/Edward T. Hall 英国人和美国人 82
Advice to Youth/Mark Twain 忠告年轻人 86
Companionship of Books/Samuel Smiles 书为友 89
A Tribute to the Dog/G.G. Vest 犬的礼赞 93
Three Days to See/Helen Keller 假如给我三天光明 97
Golden Fruit/A.A. Milne 金灿灿的水果 101
The English Humor/John B. Watson 英国人的幽默 105
The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life/May Sarton 独居所感 109
Why I Want a Wife/Judy Syfers 我为什么想要妻子 113
Of Studies/Francis Bacon 论读书 117
The Tragedy of Old Age/Robert N.Butler 老年的悲剧 121
Three Periods of My Youth/John Woolman 年轻时代的三个阶段 126
The Lowest Animal/Mark Twain 最低等的动物 131
The Art of Living/John B. Priestley 生活的艺术 135
Art and Life/Jeanette Winterson 艺术与生命 140
The Winter of Wisconsin/Jeff Rennicke 威斯康星州的冬日 146
New England Weather/Mark Twain 新英格兰的天气 148
A Wet Sunday in a Country Inn/Washington Irving 乡村客栈的一个阴雨星期天 150
Summer/Alice Meynell 夏 153
At the Edge of the Sea/Rachel Louise Carson 在海边 156
I Have a Dream/Martin Luther King 我有一个梦 165
Part Ⅱ Speeches 演说 165
Gettysburg Address/Abraham Lincoln 在盖茨堡的演讲 168
President Bush Addresses Nation on Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy/George W. Bush 布什总统就哥伦比亚号航天飞机失事讲话 172
Remarks in Welcoming Ceremonies in Xi'an/Bill Clinton 在西安欢迎仪式上的演说 176
The Tribute/Earl Spencer 悼词 182
Inauguration Address/John F. Kennedy 肯尼迪就职演说 190
Part Ⅲ Poems 诗歌 203
Fog/Carl Sandburg 雾 203
First Fig/Edno St. Vincent Millay 第一颗无花果 205
Quiet Girl/Langston Hughes 恬静的女孩 207
My People/Langston Hughes 我的人民 209
Spring Song/William Blake 春歌 210
A Girl/Ezra Pound 女孩 212
Do You Fear the Wind？/Hamlin Garland 你可害怕寒风凛冽？ 215
Hope is the Thing with Feathers/Emily Dickinson 希望长着羽毛 217
To Daffodils/Robert Herrick 咏黄水仙花 219
Those Winter Sundays/Robert Hayden 冬天的星期日 222
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening/Robert Frost 风雪夜林边停 225
A Red,Red Rose/Robert Burns 一朵红红的玫瑰 227
Sonnet 18/William Shakespeare 十四行诗 230
The Road Not Taken/Robert Frost 未选择的路 233
She Walks in Beauty/George Gordon Byron 她走在美的光彩中 236
O Captain!My Captain!/Walt Whitman 哦，船长！我的船长！ 238
All the World's a Stage/William Shakespeare 整个世界是个舞台 241
Part Ⅳ Movies 电影 249
Mr.Holland's Opus 《霍兰先生的乐章》（节选） 249
Teachers are People 《教师是人》（节选） 252
Scent of a Woman 《闻香识女人》（节选） 255
后记 260