本书面向大学英语专业高年级学生及有一定英语基础的文学爱好者。目的是介绍美国文学的精粹,为理解、分析所选作家及其作品提供指导和帮助,提高读者的阅读水平和欣赏能力。
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本书收入了20世纪美国著名作家的作品,所选作品以小说和诗歌为主。目的在于介绍美国文学经典作品,为我国读者理解美国文学及文化提供一定的指导和帮助,以提高读者的文学阅读水平、鉴赏能力和人文素养。
1. Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
Roman Fever
2. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
From Sister Carrie
3. Willa Cather (1873-1947)
A Wagner Matinre
4. Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Mending Wall
Home Burial
The Road Not Taken
Birches
Out, Out
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Design
Desert Places
5. Jack London (1876-1916)
The Law of Life
6. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
Death in the Woods
7. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
The Snow Man
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Anecdote of the Jar
8. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
Spring and All
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just to Say
To a Poor Old Woman
The Dance
9. Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant's Wife:A Letter
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
10. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
11. Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
From Long Day's Journey into Night
12. Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The Grave
13. E Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
From The Great Gatsby
14. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
A Rose for Emily
15. Ernest Hemingway ( 1899-1961 )
Indian Camp
Hills Like White Elephants
A Clean,Well-Lighted Place
16. John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
From The Grapes of Wrath
17. Langston Hughes ( 1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Mother to Son
The Weary Blues
Song for a Dark Girl
Freedom Train
Harlem
18. Eudora Welty (1909-2001 )
A Worn Path
19. Elizabeth Bishop ( 1911 - 1979)
The Fish
At the Fishhouses
Sestina
One Art
20. Ralph Ellison (1913-1994)
From Invisible Man
21. Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
From Seize the Day
22. Arthur Miller ( 1915-2005)
From Death of a Salesman
23. Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Good Country People
24. Toni Morrison (b.1931)
The Bluest Eye
25. John Updike (1932-2009)
Separating
26. Alice Walker (b.1944)
Everyday Use