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CONTENTS1

PREFACE1

PART ONE1

THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM1

Ⅰ WASHINGTON IRVING（1783—1859）8

Rip Van Winkle11

Ⅱ RALPH WALDO EMERSON（1803—1882）33

Nature（Ⅷ Prospects）35

Ⅲ NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE（1804—1864）45

The Scarlet Letter（Chapters 1，17，and 18）49

Ⅳ WALT WHITMAN（1819—1892）71

Song of Myself（20，30，31，and 46）74

I Hear America Singing78

I Hear It Was Charged Against Me79

I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing80

One's-Self I Sing81

PART TWO84

THE AGE OF REALISM84

Ⅴ MARK TWAIN（1853—1910）91

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn96

（Chapters 16 and 31）96

Ⅵ HENRY JAMES（1843—1916）122

The Art of Fiction（Excerpt）126

Ⅶ O．HENRY（1862—1910）141

The Gift of the Magi143

The Cop and the Anthem152

Ⅷ THEODORE DREISER（1871—1945）165

An American Tragedy（Book Two：Chapter 47）168

PART THREE192

MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE192

Ⅸ ROBERT FRoST（1874—1963）201

Mending Wall203

The Road Not Taken205

Fire and Ice206

Dust of Snow206

Design207

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening207

Ⅹ T．S．ELIOT（1888—1965）210

The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock213

Tradition and the Individual Talent222

Ⅺ SINCLAIR LEWIS（1885—1951）236

Babbitt（Chapters 9 and 25）239

Ⅻ EUGENE O'NEILL（1888—1953）263

The Hairy Ape（Scenes 2，3，and 8）266

ⅩⅢ F．SCOTT FITZGERALD（1896—1940）285

The Great Gatsby（Chapter 7）289

ⅩⅣ WILLIAM FAULKNER（1897—1962）326

Barn Burning329

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech353

ⅩⅤ ERNEST HEMINGWAY（1899—1961）359

The Killers363

The Old Man and the Sea（Excerpt）377

ⅩⅥ JOHN STEINBECK（1902—1968）398

Of Mice and Men（Chapters 5 and 6））401

ⅩⅦ RALPH ELLISON（1914—1994）427

The Invisible Man（Prologue）429

ⅩⅧ SAUL BELLOW（1915—）445

A Father-to-Be448

ⅩⅨ ARTHUR MILLER（1915—）464

Death of a Salesman（Excerpt from ActⅡ）467

Tragedy and the Common Man494

ⅩⅩ JOSEPH HELLER（1923—）503

Catch-22（Chapter 40）505

后记521