经典英语名人名篇阅读

《经典英语名人名篇阅读》讲述了：Stepping into the advanced stage of English reading,students will find that it is the interpretation of meaning ratherthan the study of difficult vocabulary and grammar that becomesthe chief challenge. When I was choosing the materials for thisreading textbook, which intends to develop students' ability ofinterpretation, the ability to gain the ideas, I did one thing forcertain, that is, all the texts are very meaningful （or insightful）writings. Most of them have become classic in the Westernliterary world. So, I decided to name this text book 经典英语名人名篇阅读, or Reading for the Ideas.

Traditionally, reading has been regarded as a decodingprocess.^[1]

Foreword

POSSESSION AND DEPRIVATION

1．Insouciance

2．My Wood

LIBERAL KNOWLEDGE

3．Enlargement of Mind

4．Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts：A Study in Educational Epistemology

NATURE AND CIVILIZATION

5．Twins

6．Pages from the Life of a Georgia Innocent

7．The Fixed

PRoGRESS

8．Progress and Change

9．Technology and Democracy

HERITAGE AND WORLD

10．Our Inhertiance

11．Reflections on Gandhi

12．Courage

MASCULINITY AND FEMININITY

13．Professions for Women

14．The Androgynous Man

15．The Chrysanthemums

INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS

16．The Inner Ring

17．Afiectation

18．The Middle Class

19．Revelation

20．The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

ART AND SPORT

21．The Nature and Significance of Play

22．Art for Art’S Sake

COMMUNITY

23．Civil Disobedience

24．An Independent Woman

MORTALITY

25．The Deer at Providencia

26．Once More to the Lake

JOURNEYS

27．Sightseer

28．Landscape and Character

ABOUT WRITDiG

29．Calculating Machine

30．No Essays，Please!