内容简介
这本《50 Classic essays:经典随笔50首》按全英文版出版,西方流行口袋本。
共收集了马克•吐温、伯特兰•罗素、弗兰西斯•培根、拉尔夫•沃尔多•爱默生、查尔斯•兰姆、詹姆斯•艾伦等众多西方文学名家的代表作与经典名篇,全书共50篇。
读者可以通过书上指定的网址,通过微盘免费下载配套的英文朗读文件,边听边读,感受地道英语文学之乐趣。
对于英语学习者来讲,这是一本优秀的英语文学精读手册。
This selection brings together fifty classics non-fictions, written by Henry David Thoreau, William Hazlitt, Francis Bacon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Allen, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Lamb, Bertrand Russel, Robert Louis Stevenson, etc,. It’s a treasure trove of fine writing and thought-provoking essays.
Spare some of your time reading it each day, you must benefit from the daily accumulation of English learning.
目录
01 ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS 001
02 AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION:“WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?” 004
03 THE AWFUL GERMAN LANGUAGE 013
04 BEFORE THE DIET OF WORMS 036
05 CATS 040
06 CHEESE 046
07 DARWIN’S VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE 050
08 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 056
09 THE DIFFERENT DEGREES OF ENJOYMENT PRESENTED BY THE CONTEMPLATION OF NATURE 061
10 DREAM-CHILDREN 064
11 THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 069
12 A FREE MAN’S WORSHIP 072
13 THE FUTURE OF ASTRONOMY 083
14 A GENERAL VIEW OF THEOSOPHY 100
15 GIFTS 104
16 HOW PAIN LEADS TO KNOWLEDGE AND POWER 109
17 THE KNOWLEDGE OF SELF 112
18 LINCOLN’S LAST HOURS 120
19 THE MAN WHO THINKS BACKWARDS 141
20 THE MEANING AND METHOD OF SPIRITUAL LIFE 146
21 MEDITATION 17 160
22 A MESSAGE TO GARCIA 163
23 A MODEST PROPOSAL 168
24 NEVER AGAIN! 179
25 NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT 195
26 OF TRUTH 204
27 ON ENGLISH COMPOSITION AND OTHER MATTERS 207
28 ON THE ART OF FICTION 212
29 ON THE FEAR OF DEATH 214
30 ON THE METHOD OF GRACE 227
31 ON THE PLEASURE OF TAKING UP ONE’S PEN 234
32 ON THE TRAGEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE 238
33 ON THE UNJUST CAUSES OF WAR 260
34 OUR CHILDREN AND GREAT DISCOVERIES 268
35 OUR FRIEND THE DOG 270
36 THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIRDS’ NESTS 285
37 THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION 304
38 THE PLACE OF SCIENCE IN A LIBERAL EDUCATION 319
39 PUBLIC PRAYER 331
40 THE RHYTHM OF LIFE 337
41 THE SACREDNESS OF WORK 341
42 SELF-DENIAL NOT THE ESSENCE OF VIRTUE 342
43 SHOULD WOMEN BE BEAUTIFUL? 345
44 SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC 352
45 THOUGHTS ON GOVERNMENT (1776) 367
46 THE THREE KINDS OF MEN 377
47 TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE 382
48 TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE 384
49 WHEN A MAN COMES TO HIMSELF 394
50 WHY ARE ALL MEN GAMBLERS? 408
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