English and American Literature Selected Readings

Author: Gui Yangqing
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: This book is a self-published textbook for the "Selected Readings in British and American Literature" course at the School of Foreign Languages, Nanjing Normal University. It includes the works of 22 British writers and 15 American writers, arranged in chronological order according to literary history. The format of the book is as follows: 1. A brief introduction to the author's life; 2. A summary of the work's content (if the selected text is a fragment of the work); 3. The selected text; 4. Notes; 5. Questions and exercises. The content of this book is "British and American, few but essential," making it suitable for reference use by English majors in normal universities and teacher training colleges, as well as for and self-learners with a certain level of English proficiency, and enthusiasts of British and American literature as supplementary reading materials.