Unit One Childhood
Discipline Is A Great Teacher
John Holt
Christmas
Floyd Dell

Unit Two Nature
Twins
Elwyn B.White
Snapping Turtle
Alan Devoe

Unit Three Personality
Solitude
Henry D.Thoreau
Advice to Youth
Mark Twain

Unit Four Travel
On Going a Journey
William Hazlitt
The Author's Account of Himself
Washington Irving

Unit Five Values
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
William Faulkner
Tolerance
Edward M.Forster

Unit Six Psychology
Affectation
Samuel Johnson
The

Unit One Childhood
Discipline Is A Great Teacher
John Holt
Christmas
Floyd Dell

Unit Two Nature
Twins
Elwyn B.White
Snapping Turtle
Alan Devoe

Unit Three Personality
Solitude
Henry D.Thoreau
Advice to Youth
Mark Twain

Unit Four Travel
On Going a Journey
William Hazlitt
The Author's Account of Himself
Washington Irving

Unit Five Values
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
William Faulkner
Tolerance
Edward M.Forster

Unit Six Psychology
Affectation
Samuel Johnson
The Harm That Good Men Do
Bertrand Russell

Unit Seven Education
HOW I Learned to Write
Benjamin Franklin
My First Introduction to the Classics
Winston Churchill

Unit Eight Art and Sport
Attitude
Garrison Keillor
The Summing Up
wuliam.S.Maugham

Unit Nine Views
Of Studies

Francis Bacon
Beauty
Ralph W.Emerson

Unit Ten Work
The Worker as Creator or Machine
Erich Fromm
Early Success
Francis S.Fitzgerald

Unit Eleven Citizenship
The Nature of Liberty
Henry L.Mencken
Americans
John Steinbeck

Unit Twelve Science
The Difference Between a Brain and a Computer
Isaac Asimov
Footnote on the Future
James Thurber

Unit Thirteen Feminity
Professions for Women
Virginia woolf
Are Women Human?
Dorothy L.Sayers

Unit Fourteen Local Color
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
The Subway Station
Gilbert Highet

Unit Fifteen Writing
Education by Poetry
Robert Frost
No Essays,Please!
Joseph W.Krutch

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