Unit One
Text A Walden by Elwyn Brooks White
Text B Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Unit Two
Text A The Philosopher by William Somerset Maugham
Text B Poor Relations by Charles Lamb
Unit Three
Text A Science and Religion by Albert Einstein
Text B The Artist and the World by Joyce Cary
Unit Four
Text A A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
Text B Araby by James Joyce
Unit Five
Text A The Hall-Marks of American by Henry Louis Mencken
Text B Impression of America by Oscar Wilde
Unit Six
Text A On the Fear of Death by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Text B The View from 80 by Malcolm Cowley
Unit Seven
Text A A Wagner Martinee by Willa Cather
Text B The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
Unit Eight
Text A Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature by David Hume
Text B De Mortuis by John Collier
Unit Nine
Text A A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Text B Désirée’s Baby by Kate Chopin
Unit Ten
Text A The Value of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Text B A Plea for Excuses by John Austin
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