《美国文学选读》第二版（Selected Reading in American Literature）是高等院校英语专业教材，也可供师范校、教育学院、广播电视大学及社会上英语自学者学习使用。

　　本书以20世纪美国重要作家的作品为主，同时收有l8、19世纪的经典作家的作品，在体裁上兼顾小说、诗歌、戏剧与散文。本书的序言简要介绍美国文学发展的历史、各阶段重要的文学流派及代表性作家与作品。文部分共26个单元，每单元包括“作者简介”、“赏析”、“选文”、“注释”和“问题”等五个方面。如果选文为长篇作的选段，每一单元后面还附有该作家的一些箴言名句。

目录

Unit 1Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The Autobiography (Excerpt)
Unit 2Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Cask of Amontillado
Unit 3Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Self-Reliance (Excerpt)
Unit 4Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter-- Chapter 2
Unit 5Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Moby Dick -- Chapter 41
Unit 6Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Walden -- Chapter 2 (Excerpt)
Unit 719th-Century American Poets
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807- 1882)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Unit 8Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Unit 9Henry James (1843-1916)
The Jolly Corner
Unit 10 Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
The Open Boat
Unit 11 Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Miss Jewett
Unit 12 Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
The Triumph of the Egg
Unit 13 Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 143
Unit 14 F.Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The Great Gatsby -- Chapter 9
Unit 15 William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Barn Burning
Unit 16 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Unit 1720th-Century American Poets (I)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
Unit 18Eugene Glastone O'Neill (1888-1953)
Desire Under the Elms -- Scene IV
Unit 19 Elwyn Brooks White (1899-1985)
Once More to the Lake
Unit 20Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Unit 21Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994)
Invisible Man -- Chapter
Unit 2220th-Century American Poets (II)
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
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Unit 23Arthur Miller(1915- )
Unit 24Saul Bellow(1915-2005)
Unit 25 Joseph Heller(1923-1999)
Unit 26 Toni Morrison(1931- )

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