Part Ⅰ Fiction
Chapter 1 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Chapter 2 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Chapter 3 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Chapter 4 The Gift of the Magi by O？Henry
Chapter 5 Ticket, Please by D. H. Lawrence
Chapter 6 Kew Garden by Virginia Woolf
Chapter 7 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chapter 8 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Chapter 9 Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Part Ⅱ Poetry
Chapter 1 Sonnet 18:Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? by William Shakespeare
Chapter 2 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Chapter 3 She dwelt among untrodden ways by William Wordsworth
Chapter 4 Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson
Chapter 5 "Hope" is the Thing with Feathers-(314) by Emily Dickinson
Chapter 6 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats
Chapter 7 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Chapter 8 I(a by E. E. Oummings
Part Ⅲ Drama
Chapter 1 Richard ][[ by William Shakespeare
Chapter 2 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Chapter 3 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Chapter 4 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Chapter 5 M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
Part Ⅳ Prose
Chapter 1 Of Studies by Francis Bacon
Chapter 2 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Chapter 3 Three Days to See by Helen Keller
Chapter 4 Youth by Samuel Ullman

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