本书共辑有42篇英美文笔大家的作品，题材多样，内容广泛，涉及人自然、社会与文化等方面。文后附有译文、作者简介、作品点评及难点注释，既可作为广大英语学习者的课外读物，也可作为阅读、写作、文字欣赏与翻译等方面的辅导教材。

1 Excerpts form “On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth”

2 The Two Roads

3 Excerpts from “Jonathan Livingstone Seagull”

4 Excerpts from “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”

5 Excerpts from “The Moon and Sixpence”

6 How to Grow Old

7 Excerpts from “The Oth

We fight our way in, and try to buy our way out. We are alert, curious, hopeful, and we take more drugs designed to make us unaware than any other people.