內容簡介
《美國文學選讀》是根據國家教委教材編寫計畫而編寫的教科書。全書共分2冊：上冊從17世界至第一次世界大戰前；下冊從第一次世界大戰迄今。在編選作家及作品的過程中一直恪守重點突出的原則。每位作家項下都有作者介紹、作品介紹、原文和注釋4部分。作者介紹力求簡短明了；作品介紹力求畫龍點睛；原文的選擇力求有代表性；注釋力求深入淺出。所附評語儘量利用國內外評論界數十年來的研究成果，尤其重視介紹美國文學評論界近些年來的研究狀況，但決不斷章取義，不拘一人之見，不守一家之說。對所選作品採取謹慎的態度，以它對當代及後世的影響作為衡量準則。
目錄
再版前言
Jonathan Edwards
Personal Narrative
Benjamin Franklin
from The Autobiography
Hector StJohn de Crevecoeur
from Lttersfrom anAmerican Farmer
Philip Freneau。
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
Washington Irving
from The Authors Account ofHimself
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
James Fenimore Cooper
from The Pioneers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Nature
from The American Scholar
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
The Fall of the House of Usher
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
The Tide Rises the Tide Falls
The Slaves Dream
Henry David Thoreau
from Walden or Life in the Woods
Nathaniel Hawthorne
from 7 he Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville
from Moby-Dick
Walt Whitman
from Song of Myself
I Hear America Singing
I Sit and Look out
O Captain My Captain
Emily Dickinson。
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died
My Life Closed Twice before Its Close
As Imperceptibly as Grief
Mine-by the Right of the White Election
Wild Nights-Wild Nights
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
Apparently with No Surprise
I Died for Beauty-but Was Scarce
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant
I Like to See It Lap the Miles
The Brain-Is Wider than the Sky
Harriet Beecher Stowe
from Uncle Toms Cabin
William Dean Howells
from The Rise of Silas Lapham
Mark Twain
from The Gilded Age
from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Hen ry James
The Art of Fiction
from The Ambassadors
Bret Harte
Tennessees Partner
Hamlin Garland
Mrs Ripleys Trip
Stephen Crane
from The Red Badge of Courage
Frank Norris
from The Octopus
Theodore Dreiser
from Sister Carrie
Jack London
from Martin Eden
The Law of Life
