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本英语学习者必读的原版小说
I remember quite clearly
that starting this book and even having read quite
a way into it, I
just could not
understand what it was about or what was going on;
I was disorientated,
things did not
seem real. As the book progressed I realized that
this effect was a result
ofHeller's
genius. A classic anti-war novel, Heller
brilliantly weaves a world of confusion
before the eyes of the reader. At first
you think Heller is describing some lunatic
fictional
world but his skill becomes
clear when you realize that he is simply
describing the insane
reality of war.
The book follows Yossarian
,
a bombardier in an American bomber
squadron based in Europe and a host of
other characters who reflect a range of
responses to the madness they inhabit.
我记得相当清楚，在我开始读这本书时甚至在我读了不少文字之后我并不明白它在说什么
。
我失去了方向，
书的内容仿佛不是真实的。
< br>随着情节的发展，
我意识到这正是海勒的聪明才
智所产生
的效果。
这是一本经典的反战小说，
海勒巧妙地在读者面前编织
了一个混乱的世界。
一开始，
你以为海勒是在描述一个疯狂的虚
拟世界，
但是当你意识到他仅仅是在描述极度愚
蠢的战争现实时
，
他的技巧就显现出来了。
这本书讲的是一个名为
Yossarian
的投弹手服役
于美国驻欧洲轰炸
部队的故事，这本书也反映了其它人物对疯狂的战争生活的感受。
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
(1969)
——
Harper
Lee
《杀死一只知更鸟》——哈珀·李
This is a heartwarming moral tale. I
read this book cover to cover in one sitting on
the
overnight train from Beijing to
Hong Kong a few years ago. Set in a small
conservative
town in the Southern USA,
the story is told from the perspective of the
delightful Scout. On
thesurface the
book is a record of Scout's daily activities at
play and school. However, in
the
background is revealed much about the adult world
she will have to enter. Her Father,
Atticus, standing by his code of ethics
decides to oppose entrenched Southern racism and
defend a black man in a rape case.
Scout's innocent responses to the ensuing events
form the core of the book.
这
是一个暖人心房的道德故事。
我是几年前在从北京到香港的通宵火车上从头到尾读完这本
书的。故事的背景设在美国南部一个保守的小镇，令人愉快的斯考特是这个故事的叙述者
。
表面上，
这个故事是斯考特每天的学习和玩耍活动记录，
暗地里却是在揭示这个她即将踏入
的成人世界的一切。
她的父亲，
艾提卡斯，出于自身的道德标准，
决定反
对根深蒂固的南部
种族主义并为一位因强奸案被起诉的黑人辩护。
斯考特对接连发生的事情的单纯反映组成了
这本书的核心内容。
3. Dracula (1897)
——
Bram
Stoker
《德古拉》——布拉姆·斯托克
The supreme classic of all gothic
literature, not to mention Victorian gothic, Bram
Stoker's
classic horror story has had a
huge influence on popular culture. If you are
familiar with
Dracula through films or
other media but have not read the book then I urge
you to do so.
However, this is not just
a thriller, it is serious literature. Beyond the
story of a lustful
bloodsucking
incarnation of evil, with all the appropriate
themes of good and evil that
entails,
Dracula is also an important insight into the
society of Victorian England where
there was a great feeling of moral
decline. Dracula, where the path to victory over
evil lay
in traditional Christianity,
mirrors the conflict of the times.
哥特式文
学中最伟大的经典著作，
更不用说它在维多利亚哥特文学中的地位了。
< br>亚伯拉罕·
斯
托克经典的恐怖故事对流行文化产生了极大
的影响。
如果你是通过电影或其它媒介熟悉
《德
古拉》却没有读过这本书，那么我极力推荐你读一读。但是，它不仅仅是一本惊险小说，更
是一部严肃的文学作品。
《德古拉》
超出了一个关于
充满贪欲的吸血的邪恶化身的故事，伴
随着所有关于善良和邪恶的恰当主题，
它同时也是对道德观念衰败的维多利亚时期的英国的
深入体察。在《德古拉
》中，战胜邪恶的道路存在于传统的基督教义中，这也反映出了那个
时代的矛盾与冲突。
4. Huckleberry
Finn (1885)
——
Mark
Twain
《哈克贝利·费恩历险计》——马克·吐温
According to Ernest
Hemingway this was the
literature
came
as he floats down the Mississippi
with the run-away slave Jim. Narrated by the
barely
literate Huck, Twain seems to
recreate the local speech astonishingly well,
though I can't
be sure, not being
American let alone from anywhere near the area
concerned. Huck's
innocent descriptions
of the characters and lives he encounters not only
ring true but are
filled with humour.
Huck himself is an adorable character whose
imagination and
enthusiasm for playing
roles nearly beat his good heart as the major
reason for the
reader's affection. Of
great interest as a reflection of the times it
remains a classic, despite
its
appearance as a
nature.
按照海明
威的说法，
这本小说是美国文学的起源。
这有点像一个田园诗般
的故事，
讲的是崇
尚自由的哈克和逃跑的奴隶沿着密西西比河顺
流而下的冒险经历。
故事由几乎是文盲的哈克
口述，
吐温对语言的再创造能力惊人地好，
尽管对此我不十分确定，
因为我不是美国人也不
来自任何与那里相关的地方。
哈克对他所遇到的人物以及他们的生活那天真的描述不仅真实
而且充满幽默感。
哈克本身就是一个可爱的人物，
他的想像力和对扮演角色的热情几乎超越
他的善良而成为本书打动读者的主要原因。
作为对时代的反映，
这本书是充满吸引力的，
虽
然从表面上
看这是一本“写给男孩看”的书，
但它始终是一部经典著作，因为它歌颂了人类
本性中善良的一面。
5. Brave New
World (1932)
——
Aldous
Huxley
《美丽的新世界》——阿尔道斯·赫胥黎
Huxley's classic portrait
of a future dystopia founded upon genetic
engineering that does
away with, among
other things, human suffering, is perhaps more
relevant than ever with
the recent
scientific advances in genetics. The book follows
the experiences of a misfit
who fails
to fit into this imaginary world created by Huxley
through a blend of slavish
consumerism
and Soviet social control. This world, with no
suffering or pain also lacks
love,
familial or otherwise, and it is this lack of
emotion that Huxley suggests would be so
dissatisfying. The book suggests humans
need more than material satisfaction and
cannot tolerate a lack of freedom. At a
time when consumer culture appears to be taking
grip around the world, Huxley's
greatest novel remains provocative.
赫胥黎
对未来世界那地狱般社会的经典描写建立在使人类摆脱苦难的基因工程基础上，
现在
看来，
它比以往任何时候都与最新的基因科学紧密联系。
这本书描绘的是一个不适应环境的
人的经历，
他无
法适应赫胥黎创造出来的想像世界，
这个世界充斥着盲目的消费主义观和苏
联式的社会管制制度。这个世界没有磨难、没有痛苦，也缺乏爱和家庭的温暖等。
正是由于
情感的匮乏，在赫胥黎看来，是非常令人难过的。
此书提出，
人类需要的不仅仅是物质上的
满足，
对于自由的缺乏也是不能容忍的。
在这个消费文化正在世界上大行其道的年代，
赫胥
黎这本最伟大的小说仍旧是具有启发意义的。
6. Animal Farm (1945)
——
George
Orwell
《动物庄园》——乔治·奥威尔