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This textbook comprehensively considers issues such as the genre of the writer, the era in which the writer lived, the representativeness of the work, the influence of the work, the degree of difficulty, and the male-to-female ratio of writers. It finally selects Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White", Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities", Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" and Excerpts from the novel "Sons and Lovers" by David Herbert Lawrence, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway and "Beloved" by Toni Morrison in the history of American literature are included in the selection of classic British and American novels. Each chapter of this textbook includes a brief introduction to the author's life, a plot summary of the selected novel, an introduction to the main characters of the selected novel, selected chapters of the novel, and Chinese translations of the selected novel chapters. These contents can allow readers to better understand the writing characteristics of the author and the selected novel. The language of this textbook is concise and clear. It is a good choice whether it is a textbook for English major students or an interest reading for English lovers.