《英国文学作品选读（第三版）/21世纪英语专业系列教程》选录了包括从莎士比亚到莱辛各个时期27位代表作家的代表作品，内容涉及小说、诗歌、戏剧等，并在各章节前概述了各个时期的文学运动及其时代背景。该书借助西方文论精心设计了讨论题，可为学生提供解读作品的方法指南；书后所附答案可供学生自学时参考。该书可供教学时数为40课时的英语专业文学课使用，也可用作大学英语研究生和本科生辅修课教材或文学爱好者的读物。

Chapter One The English Renaissance (1500-1625)
Introduction to the Background
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18
The Merchant of Venice
Chapter Two The Seventeenth Century (1625-1700)
Introduction to the Background
John Donne
A Valediction：Forbidding Mourning
Sonnet 10
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Chapter Three The Eighteenth Century (1700-1798)
Introduction to the Background
Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Robert Burns
Selected Poems
William Blake
Selected Poems
Chapter Four The Romantic Period (1798-1832)
Introduction to the Background
William Wordsworth
Selected Poems
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Chapter Five The Victorian Age (1832-1901)
Introduction to the Background
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Darkling Thrush
Chapter Six The Twentieth Century (1900-)
Introduction to the Background
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old
The Wild Swans at Coole
Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D.H.Lawrence
Women in Love
Katherine Mansfield
The Garden Party
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
Edward Morgan Forster
A Passage to India
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
John Fowles
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Doris Lessing
A Road to the Big City
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