Part One British Essays

1．Francis Bacon

Of Friendship

2．Joseph Addison

Sunday in the Country

3．Samuel Johnson

Conversation

4．Charles Lamb

The Convalescent

5．Robert Louis Stevenson

El Dorado

6．John Galsworthy

A Green Hill Far Away

7．Virginia Woolf

On a Faithful Friend8．D.H.Lawrence

Whistling of Birds9．John B.Priestley

At the Tailor's10．George Orwell

Shooting an ElephantPart Two American Essays1．Washington Irving

Christmas2．Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gifts3．Henry David Thoreau

Solitude4．Gertrude Stein

The Winner Loses5．Henry Louis Mencken

The Feminine Mind6．T.S.Eliot

Tradition and the Individual Talent7．James Thurber

University Days8．Ernest Hemingway

A Good Café on the Place St.-Michel

9．Elwyn Brooks White

Here is New York

10．Joan Didion