这本《经典英语名人名篇阅读》由范东生主编，主要内容：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.

Foreword

POSSESSION AND DEPRIVATION

 1. Insouciance

 2. My Wood

LIBERAL KNOWLEDGE

 3. Enlargement of Mind

 4. Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts: A Studyin 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. Affectation

 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 WRITING

 29. Calculating Machine

 30. No Essays, Please!