本书在教育部的课程思政精神指导下编写而成，是为越来越多的大学开设的跨文化通识课程而特别编写的，旨在让修读者立足中国语言文化，审视英语语言文化，在这两种语言文化的浸润中实现英语能力和文化修养的共同提高。

朱振武，文学博士，外国文学与翻译博士后，作家，翻译家，上海师范大学外国文学研究中心上任，教授、博士生导师，国家重点学科比较文学与世界文学学科带头人。

名篇散文
论读书
Of Studies
The Mission of Universities
Companionship of Books
How Should One Read a Book?
The Joys of Writing
论人生
What I Have Lived For
The Handsome and Deformed Leg
On Pleasure
The High-Minded Man
El Dorado
The Art of Living
My Life Is Over
论处事
The Road to Success
The Road to Happiness
On Idleness
The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life
How to Avoid Foolish Opinions
论自然
July
The Enchantment of Creeks
Rain
A Snowy Winter Morning
Glories of the Storm
Night
名段小说
I Want Some More
There Must Be More Money
Lonely in the Bazaar
Little Huckleberry’s Dilemma
Free! Free!
The Last Leaf (Excerpt)
Gatsby’s Great Evenings
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (Excerpt)
Three Days to See (Excerpt)
Sounds of Home
名人演讲
诺奖致辞
Hemingway’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
The Forgotten Problems of the Human Heart in Conflict
To Love and to Be Loved
The Challenge of the Dichotomies
The Clear Stream of Reason
On Not Winning the Nobel Prize
经典演讲
Gettysburg Address
The Struggle for an Education
BeYeMen Of Valor
Shall We Choose Death?
Science andArt
名校讲堂
How to Tackle the World’S Worst Inequities
Heal the Children Heal the Worid
Stay Hungry,Stay Foolish
Remarks to Students and Community of Peking University
Cherishing What You Have Now．and Striving for the Future