本书面向大学英语专业高年级学生及有一定英语基础的文学爱好者。目的是介绍美国文学的精粹,为理解、分析所选作家及其作品提供指导和帮助,提高读者的阅读水平和欣赏能力。丛书分为上、下两卷。上卷介绍了美国文学发展初期到l9世纪末的美国文学;下卷介绍了20世纪的美国文学,侧重于小说和诗歌。本挡共收入了26位美国作家的作品供读者欣赏,其中有七八位作家是当代的,一直写到20世纪后期。20世纪的美国文学,虽然只有200多年历史,已成为世界文学一个重要支流。美国共有12位诺贝尔文学奖获得者。这从一个侧面可以看出美国文学的牛命力以及在世界上的地位。

1.Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
Roman Fever
2.Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
From Sister Carrie
3.Willa Cather (1873-1947)
A Wagner Matinre
4.Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Mending Wall
Home Burial
The Road Not Taken
Birches
Out, Out
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Design
Desert Places
5.Jack London (1876-1916)
The Law of Life
6.Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
Death in the Woods
7.Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
The Snow Man
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Anecdote of the Jar
8.William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
Spring and All
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just to Say
To a Poor Old Woman
The Dance
9.Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant's Wife:A Letter
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
10.T.S.Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
11.Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
From Long Day's Journey into Night
12.Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The Grave
13.E Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
From The Great Gatsby
14.William Faulkner (1897-1962)
A Rose for Emily
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