高萬隆編著的《簡明外國文學史》編全英文編寫
，由古希臘羅馬文學、中世紀文學、文藝復興文學、
十七世紀文學、十八世紀文學、浪漫主義文學、現實
主義文學、現代派文學、後現代文學、東方文學等部
分構成。其吸收國內外最新的研究成果，尤其注重國
際通行的觀點，突破國內外國文學教材的僵化觀點和
陳舊內容。較之國內通行教材，本教材增加國內通行
教材被忽略的重要內容，如增加了哥特式文學部分，
擴充了二十世紀外國文學部分，增加了本世紀之交外
國文學部分，也增加了某些被忽略的文學流派和重要
作家作品等。

Part 1 Ancient Greek and Roman Literature
Chapter 1 Ancient Greek Literature
Chapter 2 Greek Mythology
Chapter 3 Homer's Epics
Chapter 4 Ancient Greek Drama
Chapter 5 Ancient Roman Literature
Part 2 Medieval Literature in Europe
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Dante Alighieri and The Divine Comedy
Part 3 Renaissance Literature in Europe
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Giovanni Boccaccio and the Decameron
Chapter 3 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Don Quixote
Chapter 4 William Shakespeare and Hamlet
Part 4 Seventeenthcentury Literature in Europe
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Moliere and Tartuffe
Part 5 Eighteenthcentury Literature in Europe
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe
Chapter 3 JeanJacques Rousseau and Julie, or New Heloise, the Confession
Chapter 4 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Part 6 Nineteenthcentury Western Literature （1）
Chapter 1 Romanticism
Chapter 2 George Gordon Byron and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Chapter 3 Victor Hugo and NotreDame de Paris
Chapter 4 Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin and Eugene Onegin
Part 7 Nineteenthcentury Western Literature（2）
Chapter 1 Realistic Literature
Chapter 2 Stendhal and The Red and the Black
Chapter 3 Honore de Balzac and Old Goriot
Chapter 4 Charles Dickens and Great Expectations
Chapter 5 The Bronte Sisters and Their Novels
Chapter 6 Thomas Hardy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Chapter 7 Nikolai Gogol and Dead Souls
Chapter 8 Leo Tolstoy and Anna Karenina
Chapter 9 Naturalism and Other Literary Trends
Part 8 Twentiethcentury Western Literature
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 D. H. Lawrence and Sons and Lovers
Chapter 3 T. S. Eliot and The Waste Land
Chapter 4 Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway
Chapter 5 Franz Kafka and The Castle
Chapter 6 Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot
Chapter 7 Joseph Heller and Catch22
Chapter 8 Gabriel Garcia Marquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Chapter 9 Maksim Gorky and Mother
Part 9 Oriental Literature
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Hebrew Literature Canon: The Old Testament
Chapter 3 Kalidasa and Shakuntala
Chapter 4 Arabian Nights
Chapter 5 Murasaki Shikibu and The Tale of Genji
Chapter 6 Natsume Soseki and I Am a Cat
Chapter 7 Rabindranath Tagore and Giton]ali
Chapter 8 Kawabata Yasunari and Snow Country
Bibliography
Postscript