不要再為自己的懶惰找借口,作為高中生的你,現(xiàn)在開始讀英文原版著作,一點都不算早! 在我記憶深處,印刻著這樣一幅畫面:一個沉默的高中生,背著一個雙肩背,里面永遠裝著一本英文原版著作。有人告訴我,這個男孩最大的愛好是讀書,尤其愛讀英文書。我和這個男孩甚至不曾認識,但我永遠的記住了:他愛讀英文原版,高中生也可以閱讀英文原版。 Wuthering Heights 《呼嘯山莊》,1847年 作者:Emily Brontë 艾米莉·勃朗特 Wuthering Heights is "powered by more psychological energy than any book ever written". Readers admire Wuthering Heights because of "its layered narrative structure, because it is a work of incredible imagination, and because it is far more than a love story. The story shows "the eternal rocks beneath" our fleeting desires. 《呼嘯山莊》“蘊含巨大的心理能量,沒有其它書籍能夠與之匹敵!弊x者推崇《呼嘯山莊》是因為其“層層疊疊的敘述結(jié)構(gòu)”和豐富驚人的想象力,更因為《呼嘯山莊》超越了愛情故事本身,展現(xiàn)了我們轉(zhuǎn)瞬即逝的欲望之下“永恒的震撼”。 The Pigeon Tunnel 鴿子通道 作者:John le Carré 約翰·勒·卡雷 The master of espionage fiction offers a memoir of sorts, a series of meticulously crafted, witty and enthralling "stories from my life". He describes the childhood deceptions and losses that launched him, his schooling in Switzerland, where he made his first "infant steps for British Intelligence, delivering I knew not what to I knew not whom." 間諜小說大師推出自傳體作品,細膩打造“我的生活中”引人入勝的趣事。他描述了童年遭遇的欺騙和隨之而來的失落感,講述了在瑞士的學(xué)生時光,正是在那里,他“邁出了成為英國情報人員的第一小步,把我不了解的信息傳遞給我不認識的人”。 Jane Eyre 《簡·愛》,1847年 作者:Charlotte Brontë 夏洛蒂·勃朗特 Brontë's revolutionary 1847 Gothic romance about a young woman seeking a richer and more passionate life on her own still resonates with modern readers. Brontë's novel features the orphan Jane Eyre's search for an identity, her powerful attraction to her master, Mr. Rochester, and an intimate deion of her complex moral choices and sometimes raw emotional states. 勃朗特這部哥特式愛情傳奇出版于1847年,內(nèi)容革新,講述了一個年輕女性追尋更為充實激情的生活,至今仍能引起現(xiàn)代讀者的共鳴。 勃朗特小說的主人翁簡·愛是個孤兒,追尋著自我的身份,主人羅切斯特先生深深吸引著她;小說真切描述了簡·愛復(fù)雜的道德抉擇及其有時顯得有些原始的情感狀態(tài)。 James Gleick, Time Travel 詹姆斯·格萊克《時光旅行》 Science writer Gleick takes a panoramic approach to the fourth dimension, a subject that fascinated the fin de siècle scientific world. He begins with HG Wells drafting his landmark 1895 book The Time Machine. He includes Edith Nesbit, a Wells contemporary, who invented a time-travel subgenre in her 1906 novel The Story of the Amulet. 科學(xué)作家格萊克對第四維空間進行了全景式的描繪。在19世紀末的科學(xué)世界,四維空間是一個熱門話題。故事始于1895年HG·威爾斯起草里程碑式巨著《時間機器》,結(jié)束于1906年威爾士當(dāng)代作家伊迪斯·內(nèi)斯比特在小說《護身符的故事》中創(chuàng)造出時光旅行的亞主題。 To the Lighthouse 《到燈塔去》,1927年 作者:Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亞·伍爾芙 Subtle, beautiful, staggeringly intelligent and flat-out original. A masterpiece of modernism, its stream-of-consciousness, richness of language and perceptions has continued to reveal itself. 細膩美妙、智慧驚人,極其新穎獨到。現(xiàn)代派的大師之作,運用意識流寫法,其語言豐富、觀察敏銳,不言自明。 Middlemarch 《米德爾馬契》,1874年 作者:George Eliot 喬治·艾略特 A novel of great characters, it's an even greater novel of ideas and ideals. Middlemarch is the greatest social and psychological novel ever written in English. 這部小說人物角色卓越,更精妙之處在于其想法與理念!睹椎聽栺R契》是迄今最偉大的英文寫就的社會和心理學(xué)小說。 Vampire in Love 戀愛中的吸血鬼 作者: Enrique Vila-Matas 安立奎·維拉-馬塔斯 Barcelona-born Vila-Matas has published more than 20 novels, and won the 2014 Prix Formentor. This selection of 19 stories showcases his dark yet whimsical wit and genre-blending tendencies. In the title story, a desperate man with two sharp vampire's teeth has a sinful eye for an altar boy. The narrator calls him "Saint Nosferatu". "Like all those in love", Vila-Matas writes, "he is both vampire and martyr". 出生于巴塞羅那的維拉-馬塔斯已經(jīng)出版了20多本小說,并于2014年獲得了福明托文學(xué)獎。本書精選的19個故事展現(xiàn)了他黑暗而古怪的智慧和喜歡把多種體裁混雜到一起的寫作傾向。在該書同名故事中,一個絕望的男人長著兩顆吸血鬼尖牙,他總是用邪惡的眼光看著助祭男孩,敘述者稱其為“圣·諾斯菲拉圖”。維拉-馬塔斯寫道:“就像所有戀愛中的人一樣,他既是一個吸血鬼,又是一位犧牲者! Vanity Fair 《名利場》,1848年 作者:William Makepeace Thackeray 威廉·梅克皮斯·薩克雷 This novel features probably the greatest anti-heroine in English literature, Becky Sharp, and a plot that revolves around class, social climbing and a financial crisis that will seem eerily familiar to modern readers. Vanity Fair has it all. It both speaks of its time, and speaks of all times. 這部小說的主角或許是英國文學(xué)史上最知名的非正統(tǒng)派女主角——貝奇·夏普,小說的情節(jié)圍繞階級、躋身上流社會以及引發(fā)現(xiàn)代讀者奇異的熟悉感的金融危機。《名利場》這些要素全都具備, 講述那個年代,也講述著所有年代。 Frankenstein 《弗蘭肯斯坦》,1818年 作者:Mary Shelley 瑪莉·雪萊 This pioneering work of science fiction and Gothic horror developed an indelible "monster" of a theme that has endured for centuries: of the scientist as a "modern Prometheus". 這部先鋒作品集科幻和哥特式恐怖于一身,營造了一個難以磨滅的“惡魔”主題,即科學(xué)家中的“現(xiàn)代普羅米修斯”,幾世紀以來經(jīng)久不衰。 David Copperfield 《大衛(wèi)·科波菲爾》,1850年 作者:Charles Dickens 查爾斯·狄更斯 David Copperfield is populated by some of the most vivid characters ever created. They are as much a part of readers' world, and their way of thinking about the world, as people they have actually met. 《大衛(wèi)·科波菲爾》中云集了許多創(chuàng)造得最為鮮活的一些人物形象。這些人物角色仿佛是讀者所在真實世界的一部分,和讀者親身遇見的人一樣,有著相似的世界觀。 Bleak House 《荒涼之屋》,1853年 作者:Charles Dickens 查爾斯·狄更斯 Bleak House is among Dickens novels, uniquely original in its alternation of first-person past-tense chapters with a concurrent third-person account in present tense. 《荒涼之屋》是狄更斯的小說之一,以第一人稱過去時所寫的章節(jié)與第三人稱現(xiàn)在時的敘述并行,兩者間的切換創(chuàng)新獨到。 下一頁更精彩:書單 | 高中生必讀21本英文原版好書,這才是真正的閱讀
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