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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 · · · · · · (收起)文件下载
