现代英美散文选

1 Acceptance Speeches

Acceptance Speech （Ⅰ）

Acceptance Speech （Ⅱ）

Acceptance Speech （Ⅲ）

2 Receiving the Nobel Award

3 Nobel Lecture

4 Life Is in the Living

5 The English Characteristics

6 Foreword to A Writers Britain

7 Living in London

8 Here Is New York （Ⅰ）

9 Here Is New York （Ⅱ）

10. The Unhappy American Way

11. The Existential Absurdity

12. The American Family

13. Professions for Women

14. I Have a Dream

15. On Education

16. Literary Reviews and Reviewers

17. Thinking as a Hobby

18. Freud and Mans Soul

19. The Atomic Bomb

20. American Foreign Policy Reconsidered

21. Phantoms of Crisis

22. Not Listening to Music

23. The Big House

24. A Communion in the Wood

25. Rite of Spring

26. The Beginning of My Life in Cambridge

27. T. S. Eliot

28. Farewell to a Friend

Key to Exercises

Readings in Modern English Prose is designed to stimulate a serious interest in reading， provide cultural information， broaden the vision， and present good models for writing practice. The book is for the seniors at the university and also for self-study and literary appreciation.
It contains twenty-nine pieces of writing by great British and American authors including Winston Churchill， Bertrand Russell， William Golding， William Faulkner， Ernest Hemingway， E. B. White， and Albert Einstein. The range of subject matter is broadfrom history to philosophy， from literature to psychology. The selections discuss the atomic bomb， the end of the Second World War， professions of women， the age of anxiety， the American way of life， and the civil rights of the black people in the United States. Each is， in its own way， challenging and rewarding.
The exercises accompanying them serve several purposes. They
are prepared to help students to retain the important points， further explore the issues raised， develop writing skills and the capacity to draw inferences. There is an emphasis on reading comprehension and retention.