本书选用当代英美文坛**散文，名家名篇，杰作荟萃。提供丰富的时代信息及现代语言规范，题材广泛，立意新颖。注解详尽，背景材料充分，练习题型配备得当，与考试形式紧密结合，适作高校英专学生的精度课本及文理工科研究生的阅读教材。

1 Acceptance Speeches
2 Receiving the Nobel Award
3 Nobel Lecture
4 Life Is in the Living
5 The English Characteristics
6 Living in London
7 Here Is New York(Ⅰ)
8 Here Is New York(Ⅱ)
9 The Two Ismos
10 The Unhappy American Way
11 The Existential Absurdity
12 The American Family
13 Professions for Women
14 On Education
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