胡志军主编的《经典英文作品欣赏与诵读》中的圣经故事，是从《圣经》中选取的开天辟地、挪亚方舟、耶稣降生以及耶稣遇难和复活等经典故事。《圣经》文字简洁精炼、优美流畅。圣经故事内容丰富、饱含哲理。所选故事对于对基督教一无所知或知之甚少的人来说，无疑是一个福音。希腊神话部分，精选了五则人们津津乐道、百听不厌的希腊神话故事。这些美丽的故事，凝聚了古希腊人卓越的智慧和非凡的才情，反映了古希腊人对自然和社会的理解，展现了古希腊人的生活状态、思想意识和价值观念。

第一章 经典诗歌 Classic Poems

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 Sonnet 18——William Shakespeare

 My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose——Robert Burns

 The Daffodils——William Wordsworth

 Ode to the West Wind——Percy Bysshe Shelley

 O Captain! My Captain!——Walt Whitman

 When You Are Old——William Butler Yeats

 Sonnet from the Portuguese 43——Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 Annabel Lee——Edgar Allan Poe

 Stray Birds (Excerpt)——Rabindranath Tagore

 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening——Robert Frost

第二章 经典散文 Classic Essays

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 Of Studies——Francis Bacon

 A Meditation upon a Broomstick——Jonathan Swift

 Samuel Johnson's Letter to Lord Chesterfield——Samuel Johnson

 Poor Relations——Charles Lamb

 What I Have Lived For——Bertrand Arthur William Russell

 Playing a Violin with Three Strings——Jack Riemer

 Rural Fife in England——Washington Irving

 Love Your Life——Henry David Thoreau

 Youth——Samuel Ullman

第三章 经典演讲 Classic Speeches

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 Gettysburg Address——Abraham Lincoln

 Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat——Winston Churchill

 The Four Freedoms——Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech——Ernest Hemingway

 I Have a Dream Percy——Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Speech Given at Peking University——Colin Lucas

 Address to the Millennium Summit——Kofy Annan

第四章 经典戏剧 Classic Dramas

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 Hamlet——William Shakespeare

 An Ideal Husband——Oscar Wilde

 The School of Scandal——Richard Brinsley Sheridan

 Waiting for Godot——Samuel Beckett

 Death of a Salesman——Arthur Miller

第五章 圣经故事 Bible Stories

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 The Creation of the World

 Floodwaters and Noah's Ark

 The Birth of Jesus Christ

 The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

第六章 希腊神话 Greek Mythology

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 Jupiter and His Mighty Company

 The Titans and the Golden Age

 The Story of Prometheus

 The Flood and the Creation of Humans

 The Story of Io

第七章 寓言童话 Fables and Fairy Tales

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 Aesop's Fables

 Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Selected Tales

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