本书特意选了部分20世纪**小说家完整的短篇故事，以便学生分析讨论。对于从长篇小说摘引的章节，我们建议将其作为导读来处理，同时布置学生课外阅读一至两部相关的小说。在阅读完整作品的基础之上，学生可以就小说的主题思想、情节安排、人物塑造、叙述手法等提出自己的观点看法。这样的解读过程是培养学生对文本的感受能力、思辨能力、分析能力和语言表达能力的过程，是使英语文学课程转变为素质教育课程的一个途径。

1 Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
The Canterbury Tales
2 William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Son
3 Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Studies
4 17th-Century British Poets
John Donne (1572-1631)
John Milton (1608-1674)
5 Adventure Fiction Writers
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
6 Romantic Poets (I)
William Blake (1757-1827)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
7 Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Pride and Prejudice
8 Romantic Poets (II)
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
John Keats (1795-1821) 091
9 Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
Jane Eyre
10 Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Great Expectations
11 Victorian Poets
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
12 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
13 Modern Dramatists
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
14 Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
The Lagoon
15 20th-Century British Poets (I)
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) 180
William ButlerYeats (1865-1939)
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26 Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-) 306
The Remains of the Day 307
27 Ian McEwan (1948-) 321
The Child in Time 322
28 ]ulian Barnes (1946-) 331
A History of theWorld in 101/2 Chapters 332