《Selected Modern English Essays for College Students 英文版》

1.Chinese and Western Civilization ContrastedBertrand Russell1

2.RivalryE.V.Lucas14

3.The Successful DoctorGeorge Bernard Shaw20

4.LeisureVernon Lee24

5.Poetry and University EducationArthur Quiller-Couch27

6.A RelicMax Beerbohm32

7.From the Mouse’s Point of ViewLord Dunsany40

8.RomanceW.Somerset Maugham45

9.On Being Hard UpJerome K.Jerome51

10.ConfidenceJoseph Conrad60

11.The Drawing-RoomMary E.Coleridge68

12.EvolutionJohn Galsworthy71

13.On PovertyHilaire Belloc77

14.On Destroying BooksJ.C.Squire83

15.The Patron and the CrocusVirginia Woolf90

16.FogG.S.Street98

17.Fact and FictionJohn Middleton Murry103

18.Her Own VillageW.H.Hudson109

19.Signs of CharacterA.A.Milne115

20.The WifeH.V.Morton119

21.ConversationA.C.Benson124

22.The Return from SiwaE.M.Forster133

23.On Running After One’s HatG.K.Chesterton140

24.The RoseLogan Pearsall Smith146

25.Sunday Before the WarA.Clutton-Brock150

26.Laughter in CourtBeverley Nichols154

27.The Traveller’s Eye ViewAldous Huxley158

28.Fifield AshesMaurice Henry Hewlett165

29.The BarberArnold Bennett171

30.MarriageY.Y178

31.Set FreeR.B.Cunninghame Graham184

32.This EnglandEdward Thomas191

33.On Man’s ExtravaganceJ.B.Priestley198

34.ActorsAugustine Birrell204

35.An Afternoon Walk in OctoberWilliam Hale White214

36.On Talking to One’s SelfA.G.Gardiner218

37.CloudAlice Meynell223

38.Selections from The Private Papers of Henry RyecroftGeorge Gissing228

39.Boswell’s Life of JohnsonGeorge Gordon236

40.Bed-Books and Night-LightsH.M.Tomlinson245

Appendix255

1.The English EssayistJohn Freeman255

2.The Art of the EssayistA.C.Benson266

3.The Defects of English ProseArthur Clutton-Brock275