The briefing of the target texts

(1) 華盛頓·歐文的《李伯大夢》Washington Irving’s "Rip Van Winkle"
(2) 拉爾夫·沃爾多·愛默生的《自然》Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature
(3) 亨利·大衛·梭羅的《瓦爾登湖》Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
(4) 納撒尼爾·霍桑的《紅字》Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter(1850)
or "Young Goodman Brown"
(5) 艾德加·愛倫·坡的《頹敗之屋》Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher"
(6) 沃爾特·惠特曼的《草葉集》Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
(7) poetry of 艾蜜莉·迪更生Poetry of Emily Dickinson
(8) 赫爾曼·梅爾維爾的《白鯨》Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
or "Bartleby the Scrivener"
(9) 馬克·吐溫的《頑童流浪記》Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(10) 亨利·詹姆斯的《黛茜·米勒》
or 伊蒂絲·華頓的《純真年代》		Henry James’s Daisy Miller
or Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence(audio)
(11) 斯蒂芬·克莱恩的《The Open Boat 海上扁舟- Windows Live》Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”
(12) 田納西·威廉斯的《欲望號街車》Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire

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