Readings in Modern English Prose is designed to stimulate a serious interest in reading, provide cultural information, broaden the vision, and present good models for writing practice. The book is for the seniors at the university and also for self-study and literary appreciation.

1 Acceptance Speeches

 Acceptance Speech (Ⅰ)

 Acceptance Speech (Ⅱ)

 Acceptance Speech (Ⅲ)

2 Receiving the Nobel Award

3 Nobel Lecture

4 Life Is in the Living

5 The English Characteristics

6 Foreword to A Writer's Britain

7 Living in London

8 Here Is New York (Ⅰ)

9 Here Is New York (Ⅱ)

10. The Unhappy American Way

11. The Existential Absurdity

12. The American Family

13. Professions for Women

14. I Have a Dream

15. On Education

16. Literary Reviews and Reviewers

17. Thinking as a Hobby

18. Freud and Man's Soul

19. The Atomic Bomb

20. American Foreign Policy Reconsidered

21. Phantoms of Crisis

22. Not Listening to Music

23. The Big House

24. A Communion in the Wood

25. Rite of Spring

26. The Beginning of My Life in Cambridge

27. T. S. Eliot

28. Farewell to a Friend

Key to Exercises