The book covers about twenty English writers of various periods of English literature,from William Shakespeare to William Golding。Full original texts of ,or excerpts from the representative works of these writers are given in chronological order for careful reading 。But they can also be dealt with according to their level of defficulty,starting,for instance,from writers of the inieteenth century and then moving upward and downward。Notes for the more defficult words,phrases and sentences in the s

William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
The Merchant of Venice
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
William Blake
London
Robert Burns
A Man's a Man for A' That
Willian Wordsworth
Earth Has Not Anything to Show More Fair
The Soliry Reaper
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
William Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
George Bernard Shaw
Widowers' Houses
Joseph Conrad
An Outpost of Progress
Edward Morgan Forster
A Passage to India
James Joyce
A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man
Virginia Woolf
The New Dress
David Herbert Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
Katherine Mansfield
Life of Ma Parker
William Golding
Lord of the Flies