本书兼顾文学欣赏和英语学习，让学生既可品味经典作品中原汁原味的英语语言，又能通过阅读和思考提高文学欣赏水平。内容丰富，兼具深度与广度：选篇涵盖从古希腊至二十一世纪初期欧美有名作家的代表作品；文本体裁包括戏剧、诗歌、小说、散文等；脉络清楚，按年代顺序清晰呈现欧美文学发展历程；编排合理。每章先介绍时期的文学概貌，之后通过"作家介绍"、"选文提要"、"难点注释"、"作品赏析"、"思考问题"等形式引导读者理解和欣赏这一时期主要作家的代表作品。

Chapter 1 Ancient European Literature
Homer (flourished 9th or 8th century BC?)
lliad
Sophocles (496?BC-406BC)
Oedipus the King
Chapter 2 European Literature of the Middle Ages
Dante (1265-1321)
The Divine Comedy
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
The Decameron
Geoffrey Chaucer (1342/1343?-1400)
The Canterbury Tales
English Ballads
Get Up and Bar the Door
Chapter 3 European Literature of the Renaissance
Francis Petrarch (1304-1374)
The Eyes That Drew from Me
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Don Quixote
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Of Studies
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 19
Chapter 4 Seventeenth-Century European Literature
John Donne (1572-1681)
The Flea
John Milton (1608-1674)
Paradise Lost
Moliere (1622-1673)
The Imposter
Chapter 5 Eighteenth-Century European Literature
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Robinson Crusoe
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Confessions
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1882）
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Chapter 6 Euro-American Literature of Romantic Period-Poetry
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Chimney Sweeper ()
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
A Red, Red Rose
My Heart's in the Highlands
Wiliam Wordsworth (1770-1850)
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
The Solitary Reaper
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ode to the West Wind
John Keats (1795-1821)
Ode to a Nightingale
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
To Helen
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
O Captain! My Captain!
Emily Dickinson (1880-1886)
Success
I Died for Beauty
I'm Nobody
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
E'en as a Lovely Flower
Chapter 7 Euro-American Literature of the Nineteenth Century-Fiction and Drama
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Great Expectations
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) and Emily Bronte (1818-1848）
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Tess of the D"Urbervilles
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Pygmalion
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Rip Van Winkle
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter
Mark Twain (18ss-1910)
A Matter of Honor
Stendhal (1788-1842)）
The Red and the Black
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
Father Goriot
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Les Miserables
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Macdame Bovary
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1898)
Bel-Ami
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Anna Karenina
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
A Chameleon
Henrik lbsen (1828-1906)
A Doll's House
Chapter 8 Euro-American Literature of the Twentieth Century
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Ulysses
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
The Mark on the Wall
D.H.Lawrence (1885-1930)
Women in Love
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Waiting for Godot
William Golding (1911-1993)
Lord of the Flies
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Second Coming
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
In a Station of the Metro
E.E.Cummings (1894-1962)
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Richard Connell (1893-1949)
The Most Dangerous Game
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
A Rose for Emily
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Hills like White Elephants
Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
Song of Solomon
Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Remembrance of Things Past
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984)
The Fate of a Man
Gunter Grass (1927-2015)
The Tin Drum
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
The Metamorphosis
Elfriede Jelinek (1946- )
The Piano Teacher
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
The Garden of Forking Paths
Gabriel Garcifa Marquez (1927-2014)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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