많은 사람들에게 오랜 시간 동안 사랑받아 온 세계적인 문호 어니스트 허밍웨이, 윌리엄 셰익스피어, 찰스 디킨스 등의 작품에서 작가가 클래식 문학의 아름다움을 제대로 느낄 수 있는 명문장들만을 선별하여 총 7가지의 인생 테마에 맞춰 나눠 담았다. 손으로 영어 문장을 직접 써 보는 연습을 하면서 마음에 새기고, 더 나아가 자신만의 스토리를 영어로 쓸 수 있는 힘을 기를 수 있도록 응원하는 마음을 담아 시대인과 함께 이 책을 집필하였다.

무한 경쟁 속에서 살아갈 힘 The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway / David Copperfield, Charles Dickens / Great Expectations, Charles Dickens / Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte / Frankenstein, Mary Shelley / The Time Machine, H. G. Wells / Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy / Great Expectations, Charles Dickens / Adam Bede, George Eliot / 1984, George Orwell 행복은 나의 것 Emma, Jane Austen / A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde / Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen / Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery / The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot / Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe / The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde / Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw / Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte / Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens 자연이 아낌없이 주는 삶의 지혜 Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson / The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot / Walden, Henry David Thoreau / Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens / Walden, Henry David Thoreau / The Awakening, Kate Chopin / The Stark Munro Letters, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Lord Byron / Songs of Myself, Walt Whitman / Songs of Myself, Walt Whitman 예술과 문학의 위안 Amelia, Henry Fielding / 1984, George Orwell / Middlemarch, George Eliot / The Warden, Anthony Trollope / Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf / Emma, Jane Austen / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce / The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain / The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde / A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce 사랑, 사람 All’s Well That Ends Well, William Shakespeare / A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway / Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte / Little Women, Louisa May Alcott / Great Expectations, Charles Dickens / Emma, Jane Austen / Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell / Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen / A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway / Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 세상을 바라보는 눈 Fanshawe, Nathaniel Hawthorne / An Outcast of the Islands, Joseph Conrad / Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy / Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe / The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald / Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare / The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte / Lady Windermere’s Fan, Oscar Wilde / Emma, Jane Austen / For Whom the Bell Tolls, Earnest Hemingway 시간이 말해 주는 것들 The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde / The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens / Wreck of the Golden Mary, Charles Dickens / Coningsby, Benjamin Disraeli / The Little Minister, J. M. Barrie / The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson / Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare / Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll / The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells / 1984, George Orwell