《英国散文选读》

CONTENTS1

前言1

1．Francis Bacon Of Studies1

2．Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country7

3．Joseph Addison Sunday in the Country30

4．Samuel Johnson Rambler 4—On Fiction38

5．Oliver Goldsmith National Prejudices54

6．William Cobbett A Shooter62

7．Charles Lamb The Convalescent68

8．William Hazlitt On Familiar Style79

9．Thomas De Quincey On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth96

10．Robert Louis Stevenson The Woods and the Pacific106

11．Alfred North Whitehead Universities and Their Function112

12．Edmund Verral Lucas The Town Week120

13．Hilaire Belloc The Crooked Streets128

14．Winston Churchill “I Have Nothing to Offer but Blood，Toil， Tears，and Sweat”141

15．Max Beerbohm Seeing People Off147

16．Bertrand Russell What I Have Lived For157

17．Gilbert Keith Chesterton A Defence of Detective Stories162

18．William Somerset Maugham Lucidity，Simplicity，Euphony170

19．Robert Lynd The Vice of Punctuality188

20．Edward Morgan Forster People196

21．Virginia Woolf The Death of the Moth214

22．Alan Alexander Milne Golden Fruit222

23．Alexander Southerland Neil Punishment Never Cures Anything230

24．Aldous Huxley The Beauty Industry245

25．John Boynton Priestley The Ironic Principle256

26．George Orwell Politics and the English Language260

27．Wystan Hugh Auden Work．Labour and Play283

28．Arthur C．Clarke We'll Never Conquer Space288

29．Jan Morris A Passion for Cities303

30．David Storey Journey Through a Tunnel309