《小说、诗歌与戏剧探寻之旅：英语文学导读》是为学习者轻松地跨入英语文学的殿堂而编写的。它的目的不仅在于拓展学习者的通识范畴，加深理解力和提高品位，而且在于为学习者提供英语小说、诗歌和戏剧的基础知识、分析技能、赏析范例，为英语文学学习提供良好的基础能力训练，有效提升学习者的实力。
作为导读类教材，《小说、诗歌与戏剧探寻之旅：英语文学导读》拟解决的核心问题是：如何阅读英语文学作品？围绕这个问题，《小说、诗歌与戏剧探寻之旅：英语文学导读》系统地介绍和展示了阅读和批评英语文学作品的基础知识、解读过程和分析方法。全书根据作品体裁的不同分为三个部分，即：阅读小说、阅读诗歌和阅读戏剧。每一章节都在简要介绍和简要分析某个特定的基本要素的基础上，精选优秀的英语文学作品，并对其进行详尽的分析或赏析。编著者希望通过分层次提供基础知识、分析技能、赏析范例，为学习者提供阅读、欣赏、感悟和研究文学作品的平台。
《小说、诗歌与戏剧探寻之旅：英语文学导读》的主要特点是： （一）从读者阅读的立场出发，用形象的方式，将学习、思考和研究放置在同一个平台上，使学生轻松入门。在综合英美文学界对基本文学术语所作的研究的基础上.对这些基本术语作出精练而明确的界定，并对它们作了简明扼要的述评，便于学习者理解和把握。同时，用多角度的批评范文揭示英语文学中的小说、诗歌、戏剧文本的分析过程，让读者轻松地理解和掌握阅读文学作品的基本技能和方法。 （二）从文学欣赏的立场出发，以体验的方式，使学生在细读多篇原汁原味的英语诗歌、小说和戏剧作品的过程中，真正了解文学作品的精妙。每一个章节都围绕一个问题展开，力求以生动、形象的方式就文学阅读和批评中的主要问题进行讨论和引导，旨在引发读者的兴趣和更多的问题，为他们进一步的研究打开窗户。 （三）从批评解惑的立场出发，在解读诗歌、小说的阅读过程和阅读技巧的基础上，为文学文本提供西方批评界普遍采用的多种批评方法和视角，为学习者提高自己的鉴赏和思考能力，增强的文本研究能力提供参考模板。
Section 1 Reading Fiction
Chapter 1 Plot
Katherine Mansfield The Fly
Chapter 2 Character
James Joyce Araby
Chapter 3 Setting
Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens
Chapter4 Point of View
Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants
Chapter 5 Irony
Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour
Chapter 6 Theme
Tillie Olsen I Stand Here Ironing
Chapter7 Stories for Further Reading
William Faulkner A Rose for Emily
Alice Walker Everyday Use
Section 2 Reading Poetry
Chapter 8 What Is Poetry?
William Carlos Williams Poem
Chapter9 Diction and Syntax
William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays
Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee
Chapter 10 Speaker and Tone
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
Chapter 11 Poetic Rhetorical Devices
Robert Browning Meeting at Night
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
Edgar Allan Poe To Helen
Chapter 12 Rhythm and Rhyme
Lynn Johnston A Tiny Cry within the Night
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Chapter 13 Types of Poetry
Anonymous Lord Randal
John Milton Paradise Lost
Samuel Taylor Coleridge What Is an Epigraml
Alexander Pope Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog
Which I Gave to His Royal Highness
Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats On First Looking into Chapmans Homer
WilliamShakespeare Sonnet18
Walt Whitman The Soul, Reaching, Throwing Out for Love
William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow
E. E. Cummings l（a
Chapter 14 Poems for Further Reading
Section 3 Reading Drama
Chapter 15 About Drama
ChaDter 16 Tragedy and Comedy
William Shakespeare Othello, the Moor of Venice, Act I
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But all that was over and done with as though it never had been. The day had come when Macey had handed him the telegram that brought the whole place crashing about his head. "Deeply regret to inform you..." And he had left the office a broken man， with his life in ruins.
Six years ago， six years... How quickly time passed! It might have happened yesterday. The boss took his hands from his face; he was puzzled. Something seemed to be wrong with him. He wasn't feeling as he wanted to feel. He decided to get up and have a look at the boy's photograph. But it wasn't a favorite photograph of his; the expression was unnatural. It was cold， even stern-looking. The boy had never looked like that.
At that moment the boss noticed that a fly had fallen into his broad inkpot， andwas trying feebly but desperately to clamber out again. Help! help! said those struggling legs. But the sides of the inkpot were wet and slippery; it fell back again and began to swim. The boss took up a pen， picked the fly out of the ink， and shook it on to a piece of blotting-paper. For a fraction of a second it lay still on the dark patch that oozed round it. Then the front legs waved， took hold， and， pulling its small sodden body up， it began the immense task of cleaning the ink from its wings. Over and under， over and under， went a leg along a wing， as the stone goes over andunder the scythe. Then there was a pause， while the fly， seeming to stand on the tips of its toes， tried to expand first one wing and then the other. It succeeded at last，and， sitting down， it began， like a minute cat， to clean its face. Now one could imagine that the little front legs rubbed against each other lightly， joyfully. The horrible danger was over; it had escaped; it was ready for life again.
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