英美文學名著賞析

《英美文學名著賞析(套裝上下冊)》內容簡介：Literature is a cultural heritage. Its importance can never be exaggerated. First,literature is a key to knowledge and wisdom. We encounter new ideas and concepts in literary works. Secondly, literature helps us understand people around us and in different parts of the world by recognizing the diverse points of view. Thirdly, literature can be atool to teach. Socrates believed that the effect of good literature is to lead the youth tofollow the correct path permitted by the laws. Last but not least, literature, when used in language classes, helps us increase our vocabulary, master idiomatic expressions, enhance our cultural awareness, and promote our intercultural communication.

British and American literature are among the best of the world literary heritage. They represent the imagination and creativity of British and American writers. To master the English language and to improve our understanding of its culture, it is necessary to study some works of British and American literature.

Volume One

Acknowledgements

英美文學名著賞析上冊：

Preface

Introduction

William Shakespeare

John Milton

Daniel Defoe

Jonathan Swift

Robert Burns

William Wordsworth

George Gordon Byron

Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Keats

Jane Austen

Charles Dickens

William Makepeace Thackeray

Emily Bronte

Thomas Hardy

Oscar Wilde

George Bernard Shaw

D. H. Lawrence

Virginia Woolf

James Joyce

Appendix The Nobel Laureates of the United Kingdom

Bibliography

英美文學名著賞析下冊：

Volume Two

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Benjamin Franklin

Washington Irving

James Fenimore Cooper

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Walt Whitman

Herman Melville

Mark Twain

Ezra Pound

T. S. Eliot

Robert Frost

Henry James

John Steinbeck

Ralph Waldo Ellison

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

Arthur Miller

J. D. Salinger

John Updike

Appendix The Nobel Laureates of the United States ~

Bibliography