《美国文学史及选读》是吴伟仁教授编写的一套“史”、“选”结合的文学教材，内容经典，自出版以来，重印四十余次，畅销不衰。本书共两册，涵盖了殖民地时期至20世纪的美国文学发展史及重要作家作品，既可作为高等学校英语专业文学课教材，也可供广大美国文学爱好者使用。本书特点如下：
结构清晰，扼要展现美国文学各阶段的发展脉络及特点；
内容全面，每章包括作家生平及创作介绍，作品内容提要、作品选读及注释；
选文经典，富有代表性，且注释精炼，有利于学习者深入理解作品。
本书为第二册是现实主义时期至20世纪美国文学。

Part IV The Literature of Realism
Chapter 18 Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
I Sit and Look Out
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Chapter 19 Emily Dickinson
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
A Bird Came down the Walk
I Died for Beauty--But Was Scarce
I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Chapter 20 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Chapter 21 Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Chapter 22 O. Henry
The Cop and the Anthem
Chapter 23 Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady
Chapter 24 Jack London
The Sea Wolf
Martin Eden
Chapter 25 Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
Part V Twentieth-Century Literature
Chapter 26 Ezra Pound
A Virginal
Salutation the Second
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
Chapter 27 Edwin Arlington Robinson
The House on the Hill
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheevy
Chapter 28 Robert Frost
After Apple-Picking
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Departmental
Design
The Most of It
Chapter 29 Carl Sandburg
Chicago
The Harbor
Fog
Cool Tombs
Flash Crimson
The People, Yes
Chapter 30 Wallace Stevens
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Anecdote of the Jar
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Chapter 31 T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Preludes
Journey of the Magi
The Hollow Men
Chapter 32 F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Chapter 33 Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Chapter 34 John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 35 William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
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