目录
1、 SIR FRANCIS BACON(1561-1626), Narcissus; or Self-Love
2、 ABRAHAM COWLEY(1618-1667), Of Avarice
3、 JONATHAN SWIFT(1667-1745), A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
4、 LORD CHESTERFIELD(1694-1773), Upon Affectation
5、 JOSEPH ADDISON(1672-1719), Thoughts in Westminsters Abbey
6、 SIR RICHARD STEELE(1672-1729), On Recollections of Childhood
7、 SAMUEL JOHNSON(1709-1784), Conversation
8、 DAVID HUME(1711-1776), Of the Dignity of Meanness of Human Nature
9、 OLIVER GOLDSMITH(?1730-1774), A Little Great Man
10、JAMES BOSWELL(1740-1795), First Meeting with Johnson
11、CHARLES LAMB(1775-1834), The Child Angel: a Dream
12、WILLIAM HAZLITT(1778-1830), On a Landscape of Nicholas Poussin
13、JAMES H.L.HUNT(1784-1859), Getting Up on Cold Mornings
14、THOMAS DE QUINCEY(1785-1859), On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
15、MATTHEW ARNOLD(1822-1888), Heine and the Philistines
16、WILLIAM HALE WHITE(1831-1913), An Afternoon Walk in October
17、W.H.HUDSON(1841-1922), Her Own Village
18、ALICE MEYNELL (1847-1922), July
19、RICHARD JEFFERIES(1848-1887), The Acorn-Gatherer
20、SIR EDMUND GOSSE(1849-1928), A Visit to Walt Whitman
21、AUGUSTINE BIRRELL(1850-1933), Book-Buying
22、OSCAR WILDE(1854-1900), Impressions of America
23、ARTHUR CLUTTON-BROCK(1868-1924), Sunday Before the War
24、HILAIRE BELLOC(1870-1953), Our Inheritance
25、SIR MAX BEERBOHM(1872-1956), The Morris Dancers
26、BERTRAND RUSSELL(1872-1970), On Being Modern-Minded
27、G.K. CHESTERTON(1874-1936), French and English
28、ROBERT LYND(1879-1949), The Darkness
29、E.M. FORSTER(1879-1970), My Wood
30、ROSE MACAULAY(1881-1958), Evening Parties
31、VIRGINIA WOOLF(1882-1941), On a Faithful Friend
32、D.H. LAWRENCE(1885-1930), Insouciance
33、JOYCE CARY(1888-1957), The Artist and the World
34、ALDOUS L. HUXLEY(1894-1963), Meditation on the Moon
35、J.B. PRIESTLEY(1894-1984), The Toy Farm
36、GEORGE ORWELL(1903-1950), Reflections on Gandhi
37、EVELYN WAUGH(1903-1966), Take Your Home into Your Own Hands!
38、CYRIL CONNOLLY(1903-1974), The Ant-Lion
39、WILLIAM EMPSON(1906-1984), The Faces of Buddha
40、ALFRED ALVAREZ(1929-), Death of the Poet
- 收录培根等二十位英国名家经典散文
- 英汉对照排版，译文精准保留原文风貌
- 涵盖从文艺复兴到维多利亚时期的文学精华
- 英语专业学生及文学爱好者
- 希望提升英文写作与翻译水平的读者
- 对英国历史文化与散文艺术感兴趣的人
- 建议结合注释精读，深入理解文化背景
- 可对比中英文本，体会翻译的细微差别
- 部分文章年代久远，需耐心品读语言风格
- 译文质量极高，被誉为前辈翻译典范
- 选材精当，是练习英文写作的优质素材
- 虽字体偏大，但内容经典值得反复研读
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
- "Pedantry is properly the overrating any kind of knowledge we pretend to. And if that kind of knowledge be a trifle in itself, the pedantry is the greater."
- "Education and situation make the great difference. Culture improves, and occasions elicit, natural talents."
- "When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me"
- "for it is always necessary to be loved, but not always necessary to be reverenced."
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