英美文学名著赏析（上下）

　　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 inliterary works. Secondly， literature helps us understand people around us and in differentparts 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 inlanguage classes， helps us increase our vocabulary， master idiomatic expressions， enhanceour cultural awareness， and promote our intercultural communication.British and American literature are among the best of the world literary heritage. Theyrepresent the imagination and creativity of British and American writers. To master theEnglish language and to inlprove our understanding of its culture， it is necessary to studysome works of British and American literature.

暂缺《英美文学名著赏析（上下）》作者简介

Volume One
Acknowledgements
英美文学名著赏析上册：
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
英美文学名著赏析下册：
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