現代英國名家文選

本書精選19世紀末20世紀初英國散文名家包括羅素、普萊斯利、蕭伯納、毛姆、吉辛、康拉德、E．M．福斯特、高爾斯華綏、赫胥黎、弗吉尼亞·伍爾夫等的散文40篇，附有作者簡介、詳盡的註釋及三篇論述英國散文的文章。本書選文精當，註釋詳盡，可較大程度地提高中級以上英語學習者對現代英國散文的瞭解和鑑賞。錢鍾書先生和陸谷孫先生分別為本書初版和新版作序。

徐燕謀(1906—1986)，江蘇崑山人。復旦大學英語教授。1929年畢業於光華大學。1930年起先後任教於無錫中學、光華大學附中、湖南國立師範學院、光華大學、華東師範大學和復旦大學。曾主編全國高校英語專業統編教材《英語》第七、八冊，還曾編注《現代英文選》、《現代英國名家文選》等，併為商務印書館註釋蕭伯納、高爾斯華綏及馬克·吐温的作品多部。另有《徐燕謀詩鈔》傳世。

1.Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted

Bertrand Russell

2.Rivalry

E.V.Lucas

3.The Successful Doctor

George Bernard Shaw

4.Leisure

Vernon Lee

5.Poetry and University Education

Arthur Quiller-Couch

6.A Relic

Max Beerbohm

7.From the Mouse's Point of View

Lord Dunsany

8.Romance

W.Somerset Maugham

9.On Being Hard Up

Jerome K.Jerome

10.Confidence

Joseph Conrad

11.The Drawing-Room

Mary E.Coleridge

12.Evolution

John Galsworthy

13.On Poverty

Hilaire Belloc

14.On Destroying Books

J.C.Squire

15.The Patron and the Crocus

Virginia Woolf

16.Fog

G.S.Street

17.Fact and Fiction

John Middleton Murry

18.Her Own Village

W.H.Hudson

19.Signs of Character

A.A.Milne

20.The Wife

H.V.Morton

21.Conversation

A.C.Benson

22.The Return from Siwa

E.M.Forster

23.On Running After One's Hat

G.K.Chesterton

24.The Rose

Logan Pearsall Smith

25.Sunday Before the War

A.Clutton-Brock

26.Laughter in Court

Beverley Nichols

27.The Traveller's Eye View

Aldous Huxley

28.Fifield Ashes

Maurice Henry Hewlett

29.The Barber

Arnold Bennett

30.Marriage

Y.Y.

31.Set Free

R.B.Cunninghame Graham

32.This England

Edward Thomas

33.On Man's Extravagance

J.B.Priestley

34.Actors

Augustine Birrell

35. An Afternoon Walk in October

William Hale White

36.On Talking to One's Self

A.G.Gardiner

37.Cloud

Alice Meynell

38.Selections from The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

George Gissing

39.Boswell's Life of Johnson

George Gordon

40.Bed-Books and Night-Lights

H.M.Tomlinson

Appendix

1.The English Essayist

John Freeman

2.The Art of the Essayist

A.C.Benson

3.The Defects of English Prose

Arthur Clutton-Brock