Readings in Modern English Prose is designed to stimulate a serious interest in reading, provide cultural information, broaden the vision, and present good models for writing practice. The book is for the seniors at the university and also for self-study and literary appreciation.
It contains twenty-nine pieces of writing by great British and American authors including Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell, William Golding, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, E. B. White, and Albert Einstein. The

1 Acceptance Speeches
Acceptance Speech (Ⅰ)
Acceptance Speech (Ⅱ)
Acceptance Speech (Ⅲ)
2 Receiving the Nobel Award
3 Nobel Lecture
4 Life Is in the Living
5 The English Characteristics
6 Foreword to A Writer's Britain
7 Living in London
8 Here Is New York (Ⅰ)
9 Here Is New York (Ⅱ)
10. The Unhappy American Way
11. The Existential Absurdity
12. The American Family
13. Professions for Women
14. I Have a Dream
15. On Education
16. Literary Reviews and Reviewers
17. Thinking as a Hobby
18. Freud and Man's Soul
19. The Atomic Bomb
20. American Foreign Policy Reconsidered
21. Phantoms of Crisis
22. Not Listening to Music
23. The Big House
24. A Communion in the Wood
25. Rite of Spring
26. The Beginning of My Life in Cambridge
27. T. S. Eliot
28. Farewell to a Friend
Key to Exercises