本书主要以英美文学经典名篇为主，通过点评与分析，更进一步加深对这些经典作品的理解，旨在使高校在校大学生提高英语赏析能力，同时适应四、六级考试要求，提高英语写作能力及翻译水平，同时本书也可供英语专业学生、研究生以及高校英语教师作为写作或翻译教材,也是英语爱好者的良师益友。

本书摘录了一批在英语国家较有影响的文学作品选段、诗歌和讲话稿，汇编成册，从文学的角度向大家展示了英语国家各自的特色和风采。

Of Study

The Winner Loses

How to Grow Old

On Arrivals

Three Days to See

How Should One Read a Book

On Learning Foreign Languages

Waste Lands

Address upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature

Listening

Teen-agers in the Looking Glass

Journal of a Solitude

Snow

What is Real?

The Declaration of Independence

Address at Gattysburg

Inaugural Address

On His Seventieth

Gone with the Wind

Blood, Sweat and Tears

How to Deal with Embrrasing Situations?

"Packaging" a Person

Breakfast

A Well-Balanced Diet

Anger is Dangerous to Your Health

In Bad Taste

Sorry lessons from Oxford

The Sun Also Sets

This Contest Was Won Four Centuries Ago

Develop Your Own Helping Rituals

Unfolding New Worlds

East and West

A Day's Wait

Cannons, Cells Phone and Zippers

Rain of Seattle

Spring Thaw

Laughter

Wisdom and the Traditional Chinese View of Knowledge

A Missed Mayan Palace

Television

The Difference Between Larry Ellison and Other Businessmen

Tomorrow's Cambridge

The Pleasure of Learning

Gold Rush

A Red, Bed Rose

I Died for Beauty

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

A Ditty

pring

A Love Song

The Miller's Daughter

Stary Night

Cold Cold Heart

The Golden Sunset

Family Portrait