《美国文学史及选读》是吴伟仁教授编写的一套“史”、“选”结合的文学教材，内容经典，自出版以来，重印四十余次，畅销不衰。本书共两册，涵盖了殖民地时期至20世纪的美国文学发展史及重要作家作品，既可作为高等学校英语专业文学课教材，也可供广大美国文学爱好者使用。本书特点如下：
结构清晰，扼要展现美国文学各阶段的发展脉络及特点；
内容全面，每章包括作家生平及创作介绍，作品内容提要、作品选读及注释；
选文经典，富有代表性，且注释精炼，有利于学习者深入理解作品。
本书为第一册是殖民地时期至浪漫主义时期美国文学。

Part I The Literature of Colonial America
Chapter 1 John Smith
Chapter 2 William Bradford and John Winthrop
Chapter 3 John Cotton and Roger Williams
Chapter 4 Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
Part II The Literature of Reason and Revolution
Chapter 5 Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography
Chapter 6 Thomas Paine
The American Crisis
Chapter 7 Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
Chapter 8 Philip Freneau
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
To a Caty-Did
Part III The Literature of Romanticism
Chapter 9 Washington Irving
The Author's Account of Himself
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Chapter 10 James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans
Chapter 11 William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
Chapter 12 Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
The Raven
Annabel Lee
The Fall of the House of Usher
Chapter 13 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Self-Reliance
Chapter 14 Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Chapter 15 Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Chapter 16 Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 17 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
The Slave's Dream
My Lost Youth
The Song of Hiawatha