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有哪些原版英文书籍值得推荐?

有哪些原版英文书籍值得推荐?
[color=#222222]1. 想要把提高英文能力与长期提高词汇量作为必备的生活常态,目前英文四级水准,请推荐文笔优美适合阅读的原版英文书籍。
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3. 哪些文学类作家的全集适合提高文学能力和阅读水准?类似于萨义德、苏珊桑塔格、罗兰巴特写的英文版阅读会不会受困于学术词汇呢?IT、经管、商业等专业类书籍以及流行读物、流行小说、畅销书有哪些值得推荐?
4. 单就能维持阅读兴趣读下去的英文读物或读本有哪些值得推荐?
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楼主是一名本科应届毕业生 词汇量9500左右(在开始读原版书之前4000+)
最开始读的是Harry Potter系列 读了三本感觉阅读有了质的飞跃
看研究生考试英语还是四六级的阅读遇到长难句都不会很困难
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2014.08.10 在扇贝测了一下单词量:从最开始4000多到今天 感觉很不可思议
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关于方法:
用的是[url=http://www.zhihu.com/people/2b81947c2821e9d2f47907a51b15e6f8]@恶魔的奶爸[/url] 透析英语法 每2页查一个生词 每次看书之前回顾一下查的单词
选择原版书则是根据自己的兴趣和水平 选择在水平之上稍微难一些的现代小说(狄更斯、简奥斯汀等古典文学用词和语法跟现代有些出入 不适合刚进入原版书的读者)

关于楼主认为的难度分类:
一星:极为简单,词汇量在3000左右的童书
二星:比较简单,青少年向作品,用词简单,无大量长难句,5000+有一些生词不影响阅读
三星:中等难度,6500左右的单词量,有一些生词不影响阅读
四星:中上难度,熟练掌握考研或托福生词即可驾驭
五星:难,以古典文学为代表,属于楼主每个单词都认识,连起来就不认识的程度= =

目前看完的有:

1.The little prince (小王子)
难度:一星
内容:小王子的故事大家都熟了
观后感:看的第一本原版书,作为个人入门打个基础是最好的选择。阅读起来几乎无障碍,但毕竟西方的语言表达和东方不一样,先有一个适应的过渡是很必须的

2.The wonderful wizard of oz (绿野仙踪)
难度:一星
内容:小萝莉多萝西被大风吹到一个奇异国度(奥兹国)的奇遇记。貌似根据这个改编的电影票房仅次于《乱世佳人》。
观后感:很可爱的一个小故事,善良的小萝莉和一个稻草人,一个铁皮机器人与一个狮子的故事,短小精悍,同样没什么难度,适合小王子之后的过渡。

3.Flipped (怦然心动)
难度:二星
内容:同名电影的原著小说。女主角从小时候就喜欢邻居家新搬来的小男孩,从此一直追逐着他的有趣故事。貌似就是我喜欢你的时候,你不喜欢我,这算不算泄底?
观后感:看完电影特意找来书看的,而且之前了解过难度不是很大。小说要比电影有意思很多,以致我看的时候经常会笑出声来。也是男孩和女孩视角的章节交错进行,画面感很强。强烈推荐。

4.And then there were none (无人生还)
难度:三星
内容:阿加莎克里斯蒂三大奇书之一!也是开创了孤岛杀人模式的第一人。讲述十个人收到邀请函到一座荒岛上,但主人迟迟未出现,在晚宴时突然播放了一曲童谣,然后十个人按照童谣的歌词相继死亡的故事。
观后感:代入感太强!不得不佩服阿加莎克里斯蒂的文字功力,当时每天睡前看这本书,最后连续好几天做恶梦= = 书中的心理描写刻画的淋漓尽致,最后结局也是意想不到!精彩之至!同时也是西方推理小说排行前十的。

5.The house on mango street (芒果街上的小屋)
难度:二星
内容:居住在芝加哥拉美移民社区芒果街上的女孩埃斯佩朗莎生就对弱的同情心和对美的感觉力,她用清澈的眼打量周围的世界,用美丽稚嫩的语言讲述成长,讲述沧桑,讲述生命的美好与不易,讲述年轻的热望和梦想,梦想着有一所自己的房子,梦想着在写作中追寻自我,获得自由和帮助别人的能力。
观后感:不是我的style,楼主不是很喜欢....应该很合妹子们的兴趣吧

6.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone(哈利波特与魔法石)
难度:二星
7.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets(哈利波特与密室)
难度:二星
8.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkab(哈利波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒)
难度:二星
9.Harry Potter Harry and the Goblet of Fire(哈利波特与火焰杯)
难度:三星
哈利波特系列大名鼎鼎,内容就不多说了。四本的观后感放在一起说。
决定看哈利波特原版系列是因为当时在考雅思,一个阅读9分的大牛说,7部哈利波特的原版他看了好几遍。从此提起兴趣。电影还是中文版的内容早已烂熟于心了,所以阅读不是障碍。书中的生词其实是越看越少的,所以HP系列越看越入迷,虽然罗林阿姨7部小说的难度逐级递增,但情节的精彩刺激已经让生词不是障碍,强烈推荐。

10.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (查理和他的巧克力工厂)
难度:二星
内容:穷孩子查理幸运拿到了可以进入巧克力工厂参观的那张金券,于是奇遇开始了。同名电影是约翰尼 德普主演的,当年大热啊。
观后感:小说是属于童话性质的,在旺卡的巧克力工厂奇幻游历的同时,对于人性的描写也很棒。比如金券可以拿去卖一笔钱能让查理家里生活好一些,但是家人扔支持查理去圆这个梦想。善良的人总是有好报啊。

11.Game of Thrones (权力的游戏)
难度:四星
内容:维斯特洛大陆上的血腥事儿 美剧大热 不多赘述了
观后感:乔治。啊。啊。马丁的文笔不用多说,全书看的很爽,很刺激!POV的全新写法既避免了防止读者从书中推测出剧情走向,也开拓了全书的视角。感觉全书一点废话都没有,完全沉浸进去。原著还是可以完爆美剧的,电视剧删掉了很多情节。强烈推荐!

12-14The Hunger Games (饥饿游戏三部曲)
难度:二星
观后感:看的时候电影还没上映,大一外教老师推荐的,难度适宜,对于想靠原版书提高英语的筒子们,再适合不过了。看完这部还可以提前预知第三部电影的走向,何乐不为~

15.Pride and Prejudice (傲慢与偏见)
难度:三星
观后感:生词不多,但处于简奥斯汀所在的那个年代,这本书阅读起来肯定要和现代畅销书的感觉是不一样的。当初英语课上,老师问你们最喜欢的小说是什么,大家都说什么哈利波特啊,暮光之城啊,楼主直接一句”Pride and Prejudice“It's a truth universally acknowledged,that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.当时全班都鸦雀无声....顿时逼格高起来了有木有.....开玩笑。不过简奥斯汀也就这本书略简单了...后面四部至今搁在书房不敢挑战....

16.Sense and Sensibility (理智与情感)
难度:四星
内容:讲的是一对姐妹,对待爱情方面,姐姐很理性,妹妹很感性。二人因为对待问题和择偶观的不同最后的境遇也不同。
观后感:不愧是简奥斯汀的作品,真的是很赞。看完此书尤其钦佩姐姐的为人处事。BBC也拍了同名电视剧,男主是唐顿庄园里面的大表哥马修主演~应该是早期的作品,但是依旧抢镜。

17.The Great Gatsby(了不起的盖茨比)
难度:四星
观后感:俗话说,理科生看了不起的比尔盖茨,文科生看了不起的盖茨比。哈哈。这本书是在小李子的电影上映前看的,看完再看小李子,觉得他在里面演的太好了。看小说的时候,在描述到盖茨比到尼克家里面约黛西那种紧张与踌躇,真是让人感慨啊。盖茨比又何尝不是作者一生的写照。不过盖茨比的确是很了不起,至少生于贫穷的他没有甘于现状,一直认为自己能成大事,并且最后他也做到了。

2014年阅读记录
18.The fault in our stars(无比美妙的痛苦) 2014.01.14✅
难度:三星
内容:讲述的是两个癌症少年相爱的故事。一个害怕被遗忘的男孩Gus,一个怕留下印记让所爱之人伤心的女孩Hazel。一个纽约时报畅销榜首的小说不会太差。
观后感:个人认为比同为New York Times Bestseller的《灿烂千阳》要好一些。 我看完了没什么忧桑的感觉,倒是把故事梗概给我妈讲的时候,把她讲哭了= = 妹子应该会很喜欢这种纯爱故事吧

19.The old man and the sea (老人与海) 2014.01.15✅
难度:二星
观后感:海明威的作品用词都很简单,曾经也因此被嘲笑。不过这本书的确很给人力量。Man is not made for defeat.A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
看老人与海,才知什么叫硬汉。有机会再看看海明威其他的作品。

20.《Murder on the orient express》(东方快车谋杀案)2014.01.19✅
难度:三星
内容:在暴风雪中,一列东方快车被迫停下,在车上的密闭车厢内死了一名乘客,车上的12名乘客人人都有嫌疑,人人都有作案动机,到底谁才是凶手?
观后感:推理小说就不说过多,防止泄底。不过看了这本书真是大呼过瘾,不愧是AC女王三大奇书之一,想不到的结局,精彩!.

21.《The ABC Murders》(ABC谋杀案)
难度:三星
内容:一个逍遥法外的连环杀手通过字母表一步一步实施犯罪。作为死亡标记,杀手在每个被害人的尸体旁留下一本ABC铁路旅行指南,翻开的那页就是杀人之地。
观后感:阿加莎克里斯蒂为数不多的快节奏推理小说之一,名气虽然不大,但很有意思的一部,这个案件被柯南原封不动的抄袭。貌似是第325-327集。

22.The Naked Face (裸面)
难度:三星
内容:极出名的心理学家在圣诞节的前夕,他的病人莫名其妙被人杀死,紧接着,女助手也被残忍地杀死。而所有的线索都无不指向一个线索:原来是自己引起了他们的死亡,累及无辜。 于是,作为一名心理医生,主人公开始了心理上与情感上的双重大逃亡。他雇佣了私人侦探,却仍难保朝夕,在种种情感的折磨下,差一点就要崩溃了,最后,机场里,一个意大利小男孩的一句话,拯救了一切……
观后感:Sidney Sheldon的处女作,并且当年就拿下了爱伦坡奖。关于作者多提一句,Sidney Sheldon本人在音乐、电影和电视三大舞台获得最高荣誉奖托尼奖、奥斯卡奖和艾美奖后,又在52岁时跨入小说作家行列,凭借此书获得爱伦·坡奖和《纽约时报》最佳年度Mystery小说奖, 几乎每本小说都是出版不久就登上全美畅销书排行榜,被誉为是”美国的金庸“。他的系列一共19本,因情节紧凑,精彩离奇,并且用词简单,值得一看。

23.Crooked House (怪屋)2014.05.04
难度:三星
内容: 我在埃及遇上了索菲娅,此后她成为了我心爱的女子,然而我对她的家庭背景等一无所知。有一次,她终于肯开口对我说,她住在伦敦郊外的一个富豪住宅区,住在一幢歪歪扭扭的畸形小屋里……很快我就发现,怪屋之“怪”,并不单单指怪异风格的装潢,而是整个家族中那种变形的压抑氛围。据说这个家族有着冷酷和残忍的血统遗传,杀人犯的出现并不是什么奇怪的事情……

观后感:先附上作者对此书的评价:”我有理由相信,这是我写的最好的一本书(另一部是奉命谋杀),我想人们杀得更多的是他们所爱的人,而非他们所恨的人。或许是因为只有你爱的人才能真正地使你的生活变得无法忍受。这本书是我看的最开心的 一部,原因一是里面用词竟然大多数都是考研词汇,这样楼主一边背单词,一边又可以在小说里复习一遍。原因之二是这部书并不能完全归为侦探推理小说,而是一部探索人性的书。在怪屋里,一家人性格各异,彼此冷漠,最后早就出了怪物一样的凶手...凶手是可悲的,生在这样的家庭之下。阿婆的很多书都让人掩卷深思,这也是她作品成功的一点。

24.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (罗杰疑案) 2014.05.15
难度:三星
内容:罗杰·艾克罗伊德是个知道得太多的人。
他知道他爱着的女人毒死了她的第一个丈夫。他知道有人在敲诈她——现在他知道她因服用过量药物而自杀身亡。
晚班邮件很快就会让他知道那个神秘的敲诈者是谁。但是罗杰没能把信读完就死了——他坐在书房里被人用刀抹脖子……

观后感:被誉为是“阿加莎三大奇书之一”属于根本不可能猜到的凶手一类,看过的朋友跟我说当看到凶手是谁的时候,震惊的手里的鸡腿掉在了地上....经常被选为推理小说TOP3,也是阿加莎克里斯蒂的成名作,强烈推荐,这个建议提前看,被泄底了就可惜了。

25.Endless Night(无尽长夜)2014.08.02
难度:三星
内容:美丽宁静的吉卜赛庄,却被传言是一所遭受了诅咒的住所,许多擅自进入的人都会在一次“事故”中丧生,没有人能够逃脱。然而英俊潇洒的穷小子迈克尔还是一眼看中了这里,他奢望成为这里的主人。富家小姐埃莉在这里爱上了他,他们在这里结婚,在这里定居。可那可怕的诅咒会放过他们吗?有一天,她骑马出去,没有回来……

观后感:不知不觉距离看的上一部原版小说已经过去快三个月了,与其说这是一部推理小说,不如说是一部爱情小说。全书的高潮发生在最后的四分之一。阿婆就是这么让人又爱又恨。恨她的作品总是这么慢热,爱她总会在最后结局让你得到无比的震撼,等你再回头细细品味,你会发现前面阿婆已经为结局埋下了伏笔...
《无尽长夜》就是一部经典的阿婆作品,同时也被誉为是阿婆晚年生涯最出色的作品之一。全书看完,给人压抑的同时,又是遗憾,或许人性就是如此,人们总是直到为时已晚的时候,才能认识到生命中真正重要的时刻。失去了,才知道弥足珍贵。有人生来甜蜜欢畅,暮暮又朝朝,有人生来无尽长夜。这种凄婉的爱情故事,妹子应该会很喜欢吧,推荐之。

26. the CATCHER in the RYE (麦田里的守望者) 2014.08.07

难度:两星

内容:主人公是16岁的中学生霍尔顿·考菲尔德是当代美国文学中最早出现的反英雄形象之一,霍尔顿出身中纽约一个富裕的中产阶级家庭。学校里的老师和自己的家长强迫他好好读书,为的是出人头地,以便将来买辆凯迪拉克,而在学校里一天到晚干的,就是谈女人,酒和性,他看不惯周围的一切, 根本没心思用功读书,因而老是挨罚,到他第四次被开除时,他不敢回家。便只身在美国最繁华的纽约城游荡了一天两夜,住小客店,逛夜总会滥交女友他在电影院里百无聊赖地消磨时光,糊里糊涂地召了妓女,情不自禁的与虚荣的女友搂搂抱抱,与此同时,他的内心又十分苦闷,企图逃出虚伪的成人世界去寻批纯洁与真理的经历与感受。这种精神上无法调和的极度矛盾最终令他彻底崩溃,躺倒在精神病院里。

观后感:怎么说呢,怎么说呢,这本书有人喜欢得不得了,有人就看不下去,楼主刚好就是后者...不过看这本书有种突然回到了看《绿野仙踪》的时候,基本上没什么生词,句子也都很简单,有生词也基本上是垃圾话= = 对,这本书垃圾话非常多,男主是叛逆的少年。所以说么。。。男主这种感觉看什么都不顺眼的叛逆脾气把看书的楼主弄的那几天都莫名奇妙的暴躁。有些文学经典真的是欣赏不来。。。喜欢的人求勿喷。

27.《Stranger in the Mirror》(镜子里的陌生人) 2014.08.15

难度:三星

内容:中学生托比与女同学发生了性关系,致使女方怀孕。为逃避结婚,离家出走,到处流浪,一文不名,为了生计,先后在马戏团跑龙套,在酒吧充当业余滑稽演员,但他一心想着成为一名电影明星。终于在好莱坞电影经纪人克利夫顿的提携下,成为红极一时的超级明星。托比过着骄奢淫逸的生活,然而内心却十分空虚。

一心想出人头第的女演员吉尔,在好莱坞历经坎坷,她周旋于制片人、导演和经纪人之间,被迫出卖色相,并被情人诱骗拍摄裸体电影,沦为等外演员。为了改变低下地位,吉尔博得托比的欢心,二人结为夫妇,成为声名显赫的坦普尔夫人。托比因为长期纵欲,病发瘫痪。吉尔为了巩固已经取得的地位,以惊人的毅力帮助托比恢复了健康。吉尔随托比在各大都市演出,所到之处,尽皆轰动。但托比再次瘫痪,恰值吉尔始终眷恋的情人戴维突然出现,吉尔感到托比再无恢复的希望,害死了托比,并仰仗托比生前的巨大声望,成功登上了明星宝座。但托比的经纪人克利夫顿为了报复吉尔,设计让戴维看到了吉尔在裸体电影中的不堪场景,戴维痛苦离去,吉尔也彻底绝望,堕身大海...

观后感:简直是太!!好!!看!!了!!!虽然这本书还不是大师评价最高的一本,但楼主我看完前言就被深深的吸引了!全程无尿点!两个主人公的经历跌宕起伏,尤其到了后面女主开始对以前虐待她的人一一复仇,不能更精彩!西德尼谢尔顿不愧是米国最会讲故事的人,作为全世界唯一一个集奥斯卡奖、托尼奖、爱伦坡奖于一身的人,他用真实的经历描绘了一幅从草根到好莱坞巨星成长的血泪史。看完全书,不禁感慨人生就是这样,在不断的挫折中渐渐变成了另一个自己,正如书里说的那样,你休想从镜子里认出你自己,因为那只有个陌生人的影子。
附上书里我最喜欢的一句话:Only in this life you made your own miracles,because God was busy elsewhere.
PS:书里露骨的色情描写让没见过市面的我和我的小伙伴们惊呆了....第一次看到原版书这么黄...果然应该14x吗哈哈

28.《the Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler》(希特勒的兴与衰) 2014.09.05

难度:三星

内容:一位美国记者记录的希特勒从童年到死亡的历程。

观后感:首先,本书生词不是很多,因为目前正在背专四、专八词汇,倒是发现了很多里面背过的单词,但是总体来说,书不难,很好于阅读下去。其次,从书的内容来看,感觉写的还是很客观的,很多地方都引用了很多希特勒自己的日记以及手下将士的记录。最后,不得不说,希特勒的人生很传奇,生在一个公务员家庭,却一心想当个艺术家,艺术家没当成,去参军逐渐建立了第三帝国,成为元首。与自己的外甥女谈恋爱,爱得死去活来却又因控制欲生生害死爱人,初期失败了很多次,但都能运用计谋与手段化险为夷。毕竟能成为一介枭雄,自然有他的道理啊。。。不过从他屠杀犹太人来看,童年真的很重要啊,看过《辛德勒名单》觉得真是太残忍了。

29.《Master of The Game》 (谋略大师) 2014.10.03

难度:三星

内容:她是淘金者的女儿,幼年的经历即让她懂得权力的重要。她有足够的精明,纷乱的战争年代成为她发迹的最佳时机;她有足够的野心,步步为营直至缔造庞大的钻石王国。在权力的棋盘上,每一个人都是她手中的棋子,无论是她的情人还是她的儿子……

观后感:全书14.4万词,耗时10小时左右。这可能是继《冰与火之歌——权利的游戏》之后我看的最长的一本书了,不过竟然出乎意料的高效。这大概要归功于谢老写书实在是精彩绝伦、情节跌宕起伏,让人忍不住一口气读完。书中以Kate为主线,讲述了一个百年的家族史,在这里面你能看到富一代Jamie的挖钻石发家的惊险刺激、富二代Kate女强人的控制欲、对公司的使命感责任感和机关算尽、富三代Tony不求继承家业只求作画却受母亲百般操纵阻挠的挣扎、富四代双胞胎姐妹相爱相杀...真是不得不感叹,身为一个合格的上位者,使命感责任感以及无情都缺一不可。谢老曾说Kate这样的追求是没有意义的,所以她总是不让Kate如愿,一次又一次的让她的继承人之梦破碎,不过又何尝不是创业容易守业难呢?如果Tony和Robert没有生在富贵的时候,而是在家族存亡之际,恐怕也会激起那种责任与使命吧....总而言之,还是比较佩服Kate的。强烈推荐。

下一部....未完待续.....
30.《Life and Death in ShangHai》(上海生死劫)

难度:三星

内容:
知乎问题:有哪些人生经历精彩程度超过小说,却不广为人知的传奇人物?
1915年出生,先后就读于燕京大学以及留学于伦敦政治经济学院,后来在上海就职于过壳牌公司,父亲曾任高管。家产丰厚,国内外都有存款,在那个年代住着小洋房并配有女佣、园丁等等,可为一代名媛。
本该是贵族小姐平平淡淡的生活,但丈夫于1957年去世(「郑念」这个名字就是为了纪念丈夫),1966年文革爆发,被抄家,被关进监狱长达五六年,出狱后才得知自己女儿被红卫兵杀害。
从拥有一切到一无所有,郑念女士并没有一蹶不振,她在监狱中经历了许多折磨可仍旧不屈不挠。最后移民到国外写了自传「Life and Death in Shanghai」(上海生死劫)。
她在狱中会背唐诗来平缓内心和锻炼记忆力,被反手拷着好几天的她会冷静思考如何完好保全双手,她拒绝释放协议要求为无罪并且要当局道歉。

郑念女士曾在她的自传中写道:
「在我看来,无罪而虚假地承认有罪是一件愚蠢的事情。更合乎伦理和聪明的方法是:面对迫害而不予理会,有的事情必须忍耐。 当我考虑自己的境遇时,我意识到迫害我的第一步即将结束。无论今后处于什么状况,我将不得不加倍努力,以阻止迫害者控告我的企图得逞。只要他们不能杀死我,我决不投降。因为,当我坐在吉普车上时,我心里想的不是恐惧和失败,而是一种决心。」

我没有经历过文革,但在那段时期被抓进监狱的人长期待在里面后精神多少是有些问题的,还记得郑念女士在书中描述到狱中另一人每天磨牙刷,就为了把牙刷磨尖然后自杀。
所以真的很佩服郑念女士,能在那种情况下,还保持着理性,保持着那种贵族精神,更何况之前还是一位什么都有的名媛小姐。
也佩服她写的那本书中,不只是揭露了黑暗的文革时期所发生的事,没有让该有的愤恨情绪淹没她,而是用一种十分清醒的目光去看待那个时期,并写下这些文字。

就像罗志渊说的:她体现了中国「最后贵族」的一种精神与坚守。


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I'll list some of the books and plays I read when I was younger. I'm not recommending that people read these books in this order; but if you've read any of the books, then this list may help you estimate the relative difficulty levels of other books.

[b]Ages 1-8[/b]
(I didn't read books because I was moving back and forth between China and America and relearning the two languages each time.)

[b]Age 8-12[/b]
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[indent][i]Charlotte's Web[/i] is the story of a little girl named Fern who loved a little pig named Wilbur—and of Wilbur's dear friend Charlotte A. Cavatica, a beautiful large grey spider who lived with Wilbur in the barn.
With the help of Templeton, the rat who never did anything for anybody unless there was something in it for him, and by a wonderfully clever plan of her own, Charlotte saved the life of Wilbur, who by this time had grown up to quite a pig.[/indent]
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[indent]Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure.

Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from her nest. Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for the very first time in his life. He finds adventure aplenty. But will he find his friend?[/indent]
[img=100,145]https://pic4.zhimg.com/6df08f8b3c6ed72385c943a8c160add3_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20929336]Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater[/url]
[indent]It tells the story of a poor house painter named Mr. Popper and his family, who live in the small town of Stillwater in the 1930s. The Poppers unexpectedly come into possession of a penguin, Captain Cook. The Poppers then receive a female penguin from the zoo, who mates with Captain Cook to have 10 baby penguins. Before long, something must be done lest the penguins eat the Poppers out of house and home.[/indent]
[img=100,160]https://pic3.zhimg.com/ec5cc62de79325347868323050c3803e_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=22478497]Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, Garth Williams[/url]
[indent]Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he’d seen it all. But he’s never met a cricket before, which really isn’t surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City—the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He’d be there still if he hadn’t followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone’s picnic basket. Now, like any tourist in the city, he wants to look around. And he could not have found two better guides—and friends—than Tucker and Harry. The trio have many adventures—from taking in the sights and sounds of Broadway to escaping a smoky fire.

Chester makes a third friend, too. It is a boy, Mario, who rescues Chester from a dusty corner of the subway station and brings him to live in the safety of his parents’ newsstand. He hopes at first to keep Chester as a pet, but Mario soon understands that the cricket is more than that. Because Chester has a hidden talent and no one—not even Chester himself—realizes that the little country cricket may just be able to teach even the toughest New Yorkers a thing or two.[/indent]
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[indent]"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored,[i]bored[/i] young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.[/indent]
[img=100,110]https://pic1.zhimg.com/e1635578b0684f1c1ab691aafcdfb584_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20028721]The lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis[/url]
[indent]When Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are sent to stay with a kind professor who lives in the country, they can hardly imagine the extraordinary adventure that awaits them.

It all begins one rainy summer day when the children explore the Professor's rambling old house. When they come across a room with an old wardrobe in the corner, Lucy immediately opens the door and gets inside. To her amazement, she suddenly finds herself standing in the clearing of a wood on a winter afternoon, with snowflakes falling through the air. Lucy has found Narnia, a magical land of Fauns and Centaurs, Nymphs and Talking Animals -- and the beautiful but evil White Witch, who has held the country in eternal winter for a hundred years.[/indent]
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[indent]Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.[/indent]
[img=100,160]https://pic1.zhimg.com/9315d0f1e2b45a3d4138955d4a20d5f0_b.jpg[/img][url=http://www.amazon.cn/Crash-Spinelli-Jerry/dp/0440238579/r]Crash by Jerry Spinelli[/url]
[indent]Crash Coogan, a seventh-grade football star, has been an aggressive person from the time he was very young; sometimes, he is too aggressive. He enjoys his rough, macho behavior until he meets an unusual neighbor who forces him to think about his life and his way of treating others.

A rare glimpse into the life of a bully in an unforgettable story about stereotypes and surprises.[/indent]
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[indent]Lost Brian Robertson, sole passenger on a Cessna 406, is on his way to visit his father when the tiny bush plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness. With nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present, Brian finds himself completely alone. Challenged by his fear and despair -- and plagued with the weight of a dreadful secret he's been keeping since his parent's divorce -- Brian must tame his inner demons in order to survive. It will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed.[/indent]
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[indent]Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann -- a Boy and His Two Dogs...

A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains -- and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that's only found...

An exciting tale of love and adventure you'll never forget.[/indent]
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[indent]For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.

Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts...he's at Hogwarts."

Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.[/indent]

[b]Age 12-15[/b]
[img=100,145]https://pic3.zhimg.com/842beac08e65eca1f6e12a2c8c786fe2_b.jpg[/img][url=http://www.amazon.cn/Ender-s-Game-Card-Orson-Scott/dp/0812550706/]Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card[/url]
[indent]In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If the world survives, that is.[/indent]
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[indent]Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.[/indent]
[img=100,160]https://pic1.zhimg.com/28795ef4bbc89f57fd3c2cebb4b51ff4_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=22602912]The Giver by Lois Lowry[/url]
[indent]Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.[/indent]
[img=100,152]https://pic3.zhimg.com/a02e32723fc207e8337b9e394678618e_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=22934486]The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien[/url]
[indent]Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his journey to the Lonely Mountain he will encounter both a magic ring and a frightening creature known as Gollum.[/indent]
[img=100,160]https://pic4.zhimg.com/3a68c3d1ac76ea6b36abc9b6b29350af_b.jpg[/img][url=http://www.amazon.cn/Animal-Farm-%E4%B9%94%E6%B2%BB%C2%B7%E5%A5%A5%E5%A8%81%E5%B0%94/dp/0451526341/]Animal Farm by George Orwell[/url]
[indent]George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But some Animals Are More Equal Than Others...[/indent]
[img=100,158]https://pic1.zhimg.com/1d05c33bd425a1437b78477a98a732fc_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=22579217]The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger[/url]
[indent]The hero-narrator of [i]The Catcher in the Rye[/i] is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield.

Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.

There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.[/indent]
[img=100,144]https://pic3.zhimg.com/ab0ead594d994e5b9bf0d155eaac493e_b.jpg[/img][url=http://www.amazon.cn/Dune-Herbert-Frank/dp/0441172717/]Dune by Frank Herbert[/url]
[indent]Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, [i]Dune[/i] is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.[/indent]

[b]Age 15-18[/b]
[img=100,144]https://pic3.zhimg.com/17c1baf2f2748a3d5983befc956ed4da_b.jpg[/img][url=http://www.amazon.cn/A-Wizard-of-Earthsea-Le-Guin-Ursula-K/dp/0140304770]A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin[/url]
[indent]The first book of "Earthsea" is a tale of wizards, dragons and terrifying shadows. The island of Gont is a land famous for wizards. Of these, some say the greatest - and surely the greatest voyager - is the man called Sparrowhawk. As a reckless, awkward boy, he discovered the great power that was in him - with terrifying consequences. Tempted by pride to try spells beyond his means, Sparrowhawk lets loose an evil shadow-beast in his land. Only he can destroy it, and the quest leads him to the farthest corner of Earthsea.[/indent]
[img=100,148]https://pic1.zhimg.com/7b77396dcd446c67db301eca0132e6c0_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20027464]Lord of the Flies by William Golding[/url]
[indent]William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition.[/indent]
[img=100,160]https://pic3.zhimg.com/96c39ab32b34c6b1b972f17513d7c6fa_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=22558422]Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut[/url]
[indent]Billy Pilgrim, a traumatized American POW, becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens. Under their watchful gaze, he must relive his life over and over again, coming at last to some understanding of the human comedy.

[i]Slaughterhouse-Five[/i], an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.[/indent]
[img=100,149]https://pic2.zhimg.com/b1c0a44ecb469ffb236626e1f3f63491_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20667588]The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan[/url]
[indent]Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.

With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.[/indent]
[img=100,144]https://pic3.zhimg.com/09ac2eb91d6097be81006cb6162298da_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20615772]The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald[/url]
[indent]"He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was . . ."

The Great Gatsby (1925), F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, stands among the greatest of all American fiction. Jay Gatsby's lavish lifestyle in a mansion on Long Island's gold coast encapsulates the spirit, excitement, and violence of the era Fitzgerald named 'the Jazz Age'. Impelled by his love for Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby seeks nothing less than to recapture the moment five years earlier when his best and brightest dreams - his 'unutterable visions' - seemed to be incarnated in her kiss.

A moving portrayal of the power of romantic imagination, as well as the pathos and courage entailed in the pusuit of an unattainable dream, The Great Gatsby is a classic fiction of hope and disillusion. This edition is fully annotated with a fine Introduction incorporating new interpretation and detailing Fitzgerald's struggle to write the novel, its critical reception and its significance for future generations.[/indent]
[img=100,145]https://pic3.zhimg.com/dc28ea0105173056dbdf8fd372e7525e_b.jpg[/img][url=http://www.amazon.cn/Neuromancer-Gibson-William/dp/0441569595]Neuromancer by William Gibson[/url]
[indent]The Matrix is a world [i]within[/i] the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . .

Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.[/indent]
[img=100,145]https://pic3.zhimg.com/0fe5337621812de7e52483f3db58e04e_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20967597]A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway[/url]
[indent]The best American novel to emerge from World War I, [i]A Farewell to Arms[/i] is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway’s frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto—of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized—is one of the greatest moments in literary history. A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, [i]A Farewell to Arms,[/i] written when he was thirty years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway.[/indent]
[img=100,148]https://pic3.zhimg.com/574a3cb8c77fc53192e30e29a953af46_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=21114751]Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller[/url]
[indent]Ever since it was first performed in 1949, [i]Death of a Salesman[/i] has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremems of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room.[/indent]
[img=100,144]https://pic2.zhimg.com/c900919f2a511d30b55c0dbb54c533dd_b.jpg[/img][url=http://www.amazon.cn/All-My-Sons-Miller-Arthur/dp/0141185465/]All My Sons by Arthur Miller[/url]
[indent]Joe Keller and Herbert Deever, partners in a machine shop during the war, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went on to make a lot of money. In a work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Herbert's daughter, the bitterness of George Keller, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, and the reaction of a son to his father's guilt escalate toward a climax of electrifying intensity.[/indent]
[img=100,145]https://pic3.zhimg.com/07b986021a7524406b47e3dd71fb651e_b.jpg[/img][url=http://www.amazon.cn/Fences-Wilson-August/dp/0452264014/]Fences by August Wilson[/url]
[indent]Troy Maxson is a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded as a Negro from the major leagues during his prime, Troy's bitterness takes it's toll on his relationships with both his wife and son who now wants his own chance to play.[/indent]
[img=100,160]https://pic4.zhimg.com/15eb302384d4edc0729a0d77c0c3dba7_b.jpg[/img][url=http://book.douban.com/subject/1350063/]Life of Pi by Yann Martel[/url]
[indent]The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.

The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?[/indent]

[b]Advanced Reading[/b]
These are books I only read because we were studying them in class, although I've come to love each one.

[img=100,143]https://pic4.zhimg.com/2d894130c27368af3cfa6e14d99bf037_b.jpg[/img][url=http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=22558939]Macbeth by William Shakespeare[/url]
[indent]Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions as well as high poetry, blended in such a way as to demonstrate the assured dramatic touch of Shakespeare's maturity. Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition.[/indent]
[img=100,144]https://pic1.zhimg.com/421dcc5355023b2a562212b1f9ff5c98_b.jpg[/img][url=http://www.amazon.cn/Waiting-for-Godot-Beckett-Samuel/dp/0802130348]Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett[/url]
[indent][i]Waiting for Godot[/i] revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existentialism of post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.[/indent]
[img=100,151]https://pic1.zhimg.com/0c8763ccf44e51c1c56312c439c0f030_b.jpg[/img][url=http://book.douban.com/subject/1463636/]Death in Venice by Thomas Mann[/url]
[indent]Gustav von Aschenbach is a revered author whose work is known for its discipline and formal perfection. At his Venetian hotel he encounters the strikingly handsome young teenager Tadzio. Aschenbach is disturbed by his attraction to the boy, and although he watches Tadzio, he dare not speak to him. Despite warnings of a cholera epidemic Aschenbach stays in Venice; he sacrifices his dignity and well-being to the immediate experience of beauty as embodied by Tadzio. After exchanging a significant look with the boy on the day of Tadzio's scheduled departure, Aschenbach dies of cholera. As in his other major works, Mann explores the role of the artist in society. The cerebral Aschenbach summons extraordinary discipline and endurance in his literary work, but his private desires overwhelm him.[/indent]
[img=100,145]https://pic1.zhimg.com/775dc471026c40fae842953b72fe9a00_b.jpg[/img][url=http://book.douban.com/subject/1849736/]One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez[/url]
[indent]One of the 20th century's enduring works, [i]One Hundred Years of Solitude[/i]is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement of a Nobel Prize winning career.

The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.[/indent]
[img=100,145]https://pic1.zhimg.com/3a7327864ed6bada2840a4ee0a492cc8_b.jpg[/img][url=http://book.douban.com/subject/1778250/]To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (豆瓣)[/url]
[indent][i]To the Lighthouse[/i] is a novel whose overt simplicity of plot hides a complex mix of autobiographical detail, searching social questions and deep philosophical enigmas. The author's innovative use of nonlinear plot, stream- of-consciousness, and varying narrators, transforms the apparently 'normal' incidents in the life of the Ramsay family into a mythic reflection on time, gender, morality, and death.[/indent]
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I'll add more books as I think of them.

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这题准备好好答~

首先我觉得读英文原版书大家可能有两种目的,

1.通过读书提升能力,比如词汇量,语法,写作。。。

2.把英语文学和中文文学平等对待,重点放在情节,结构和情感上。或者培养对英语的general interest.

大家关注这题可能还是第一个目的多一点。所以我想纠正几个误区,一个是多读各种各样的英语原版书是可以提升你英语的[b]整体素养和能力的,但并不是提升某一项特殊能力的最佳方式(比如写作)。[/b]


[b]另外一个,最重要的一个,就是如果你想通过读原版书提升英语能力,[/b]那么重要的不是你读什么书[b],[/b]而是[b]你怎么读。[/b]

[u]还有,英语文学也是有[b]文字质量和文学性之分的,[/b]而且差别真的可以大到国学大师 和 小时代,因此不要以为看《暮光之城》《五十度灰》或者欧美玄幻甚至乔布斯传来提升写作和语法![/u]

拿我自己的历程举例子,由于我对英语文学有一点兴趣,所以留学的时候选过一些英语文学课,高中的时候学过很多莎士比亚的剧本,大学一开始选过 English literature for non-native speaker(初级),还有 English: ideas of the real, 这个算是高级一点的,讲的是现实主义的老爷爷们,主讲狄更斯,对比讲巴尔扎克,还有品钦。后来又学了 Australian literature ,讲的是澳洲的著名小说和诗歌(比如著名的劳伦斯的肛交),现在大二学的是exotic novels,就是各国的长篇小说大杂烩。我读完这些书,对这门语言的整体认知确实变化很大,但是这些书里我有好好看的,比如狄更斯,我一本《双城记》,一本《远大前程》,看得很熟,讲课的时候有讲义,自己也划书,做笔记,所以我现在写英语文章经常能想起来,但是有的没好好看的,早就忘光了。

下面开始推荐,推荐之前,我想把一句可能会激起民愤的话送给大家,是一个印度老师说的

After you have enrolled in this course and read all the books, you may think you know who are the good writers and who are the creepy ones and you may laugh at them. [b]But the truth is that, to you, they are no difference. Even a British cleaner can write better stories than you, because you are still learning the language.[/b]




1.对于还没上大学的初高中生,或者自认为英语水平真的不好的人,我只推荐一套书,应该是最佳选择
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[img=100,230]https://pic3.zhimg.com/546ff9d39f3f9f8876ed5a6b788bc88a_b.jpg[/img][img=100,305]https://pic2.zhimg.com/f5c0623d091b80f769ee7a2cacfb10b5_b.jpg[/img]
没错,就是 《企鹅建议英语读物》,这套书从初一分到高三(据说大学也有),这本书在难易度划分,严谨性,趣味性还有涵盖范围上都是我认为最好的。初中三年基本是一个难易度,高一高二是一个难易度,高三最难。


2. 现实主义的长篇 (从下面开始都针对成年人,大学生或者英语有一定基础的人推荐)

我觉得如果想提升语法和写作水平,读现实主义的长篇是个好选择,尤其是古典大师们的作品。因为现实主义(realism)的主要任务是叙述,这就限定了语言的难度不会太大,而且较为平和,不会像后现代主义作家那样的炫技,比如品钦。。。而且如果年代再久远一点,内容也就相对“死板”,情节发展比较缓慢,对于非母语读者来说简单易懂。[b]但是,[/b]没有炫技,并不代表没有[b]技巧。[/b]大师们的语言重量通过中文译本就可以感受到,读英文版,就像不戴套做爱一样,感受更强烈。比如别的我不敢说,但是狄更斯对句子结构的控制和对长从句的使用真的是天下第一,《双城记》里经长有三四个不同种类的从句套在一起,但是井井有条。更难得的一点是,语言很简单,每个单词你都看得懂。 其实,其他语言的英译本也可以,比如 托尔斯泰,雨果,巴尔扎克这三大天神的,尤其巴尔扎克

具体推荐

1.首先当然推荐狄更斯啦, 都写中文名
《双城记》
《远大前程》
《荒凉山庄》
《董贝父子》
《圣诞颂歌》
他中后期的作品对语言的雕琢如火纯青,对写作真的有帮助

2.亨利.詹姆斯 在国内不出名,但是是英国(美国籍)现实主义大师之一,擅长写心理,他的书也是语言平和简单,但是充满语法运用技巧

he Portrait of a Lady
Washington Square
the turn of the screw

3.马克吐温 他除了上述特点之外,再加上一个很多很好玩的形容词,还有真的很幽默 还有他的难度比上面的低一点。

《汤姆索耶历险记》
《杨柳风》
《百万美金钞票》
《汤姆叔叔的小屋》


4.巴尔扎克,雨果的译本,翻译来给英美人看,其实也很正宗。

5,再加个澳洲的 miles franklin 的 My brilliant career, 还有 henry lawson的作品

再举个反例,什么是不适合非母语者为了提升英语能力而读的书,而适合做内容分析的呢——海明威的作品,读一读就知道了。


下一个推荐的大类,是历史人物传记,理由
1.权威的,流传甚广的传记的作家都是和稀泥大师,语言质量有保证
2.由于文体限制,语言往往较为平淡,易懂
3,读传记,会对英语国家的历史和文化有整体的了解

推荐

1.罗斯福传,各种罗斯福传!!


[url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lYVCi70HaigC]Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom[/url][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Black]Black, Conrad[/url]

Franklin D. Roosevelt [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Freidel]Freidel, Frank[/url]

FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_S._Davis]Davis, Kenneth S[/url]


2,丘吉尔传,各种丘吉尔传!


Winston Churchill
The Great Man's Life in Anecdotes [url=http://www.booktopia.com.au/search.ep?author=Patrick%20Delaforce]Patrick Delaforce[/url]

3.麦克.阿瑟, 艾森豪威尔啦 的自传

注意,贝克汉姆,舒马赫和伊布的传记不在此列!



推荐的第三大类,短篇小说 理由是由于短篇,可读性强,不容易枯燥

推荐

1.欧亨利全部

2,马克.吐温全部(貌似重复了)

3.[url=https://www.google.com.au/search?espv=2&biw=1293&bih=664&q=nathaniel+hawthorne&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgykHnxCnfq6-gWFBtkm6EgeIaZpeUKklk51spZ-Un5-tX16UWVKSmhdfnl-UbZVYWpKRX7QjIr0kP_X-DQZe00nTg71r591-6QEAlzSy1FIAAAA&sa=X&ei=C1YQVNrSBseF8gXElYDIBA&sqi=2&ved=0CKoBEJsTKAIwGA]Nathaniel Hawthorne[/url] 俄罗斯裔美籍作家,是一个很有。。冲击力的作家。。。
Scarlet letter(其实是长篇,哈哈)
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow-Image,_and_Other_Twice-Told_Tales]The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales[/url] (1852)
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanglewood_Tales]Tanglewood Tales[/url] (1853)
The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces (1876)
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1889)

4.福克纳的短篇
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5.其实莫泊桑和契诃夫的译本也可以。。。
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这篇真的认真写的,大v们求赞TvT

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大一大二的英语课是一个很可爱的英国姑娘来教我们,最后临走给我们留了一个书单,都是她认为现阶段比较适合我们阅读的书。说来惭愧,直到现在大三末了,我都一本未读,没办法给你一个难度等级的建议,昨天收拾搬家才偶然发现了这张书单,现在打到电脑上,算是一个备份,也推荐给喜欢读书的你们。

书单如下:

Contemporary Literature I recommend ,Lisa
1.Life of Pi,Yann Martel
2.The Kite Runner,Khaled Hosseini
3.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,Mark Haddon
4.Water for Elephants,Sara Gruen
5.Mort(Discworld Series),Terry Pratchett
6.Never Let Me Go,Kazuo Ishiguro
7.Memoirs of a Geisha,Arthui Golden
8.The Green Mile,Stephen King
9.Atonement,Ian McEwan
10.The Lovely Bones,Alice Sebold
11.The Girl with the Gragon Tattoo,Stieg Larsson
12.The Time Traveler's Wife,Audrey Niffenegger
13.Fight Club,Chuck Palahniuk
14.Beloved,Toni Morrison
15.The Unbearable Lightness of Being,Milan Kundera
16.Midnight's Children,Salman Rushdie
17.The Perks of Being a Wallflower,Stephen Chbosky
18.The Reader,Bernhard Schlink
19.Things Fall Apart,Chinua Achebe
20.Girl with a Pearl Earring,Tracy Chevalier
21.Disgrace,J.M.Coetzee
22.The boy in the Striped Pajamas,John Boyne
23.The Shipping News,E.Annie Proulx
24.Eat,Pray,Love,Elizabeth Gilbert
25.High Fidelity,Nick Hornby
26.The English Patient,Michael Ondaatje
27.My Sister's Keeper.Jodi Picoult
28.The Art of Fielding,Chad Harbach
29.Into the world,Jon Krakauer
30.Corelli's Mandolin,Louis de Bernieres
31.No country for Old Man,Cormac McCarthy
32.Angela's Ashes,Frank McCourt
33.Schindler's Art,Thomas Keneally
34.The God of Small Things,Arundhati Roy
35.Bridget Jones's Diary,Helen Fielding
36.These Foolish Things(The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel),Deborah Moggach
37.The Notebook,Nicholas Sparks
38.A Song of Ice and Fire(The Game of Thrones),George R.R.Martin
39.Birdsong,Sebastian Faulks
40.Chocolate,Joanne Harris
41,The Beach,Alex Garland
42.The Horse Whisperer,Nicholas Evans

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原版书入门到难的几条路子(via豆瓣 奶爸)
可能不是太切题,但个人认为还是有一定帮助的~

[b]第一条:年轻人的路子[/b],儿童读物——哈利波特之类的YA读物——各种畅销幻想小说——魔戒冰火类的大部头——各种科幻奇幻大师经典搭配偶尔看看杂志

[b]第二条:较正统的路子[/b]:西德尼谢尔顿——阿加莎克里斯蒂看个四五本——看看19世纪的畅销书,比如福尔摩斯——然后读读18,19世纪文学,狄更斯和奥斯丁等人——再读读欧美近当代名著,比如海明威等等——最后如果有空闲,读读哲学和散文,研究研究莎士比亚。

[b]第三条:理工科的路子[/b]。先读读各个学科牛人的自传,最好是理工科或者商科人士,比如iwoz,和鞋店Zappos的老板的delivering happiness——读读纽约时报的non fiction的bestseller,其中不乏很多精品,比如Malcolm的——读读本专业教材

[b]以上皆为泛读,若要精读[/b],推荐读读经济学人和华尔街日报对中国事件的一些评论,读读乔治奥威尔的散文,读读Bill Bryson的随笔

最后再给个[b]李赋宁老先生推荐的路子[/b]:先读读欧美的畅销书,比如Nicholas Sparks这种,简单,然后读读外国文学翻译成英文的比如村上春树,红与黑,三剑客,这些书翻的很好,用语也很规范,最后再读读欧美本土的文学经典

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毕竟作为一个志于做复语翻译的高三准大学狗,可能我的推荐略有偏颇。但整体上问题不大。每一级别推荐五本吧。以下:
【初级】
1.《老人与海》★☆☆☆☆
海明威的电报体代表作,文风简练,深刻而冷峻,难词不多,通篇可顺,薄薄的一本书。
2.《弗兰肯斯坦》★☆☆☆☆
玛丽雪莱在黑压压的伦敦,用黑压压的心情写了一个黑压压的疯子。用语并不难。
3.《傲慢与偏见》★★☆☆☆
英伦小说一定高难?NO!如果想满足你少女心和庄园高冷情怀,此书是不二选择。
4.《小妇人》★★☆☆☆
小女生小男生必读作品,充满温情的笔触融汇在简单的故事里。
5.《快乐王子》★★☆☆☆
王尔德的一个深刻的,冰冷的,让人心碎的童话故事集。一个文字魔术师的作品。
【中级】
1.《阿加莎克里斯蒂全集》★★★☆☆
欧美古典本格推理的黄金作品,推理迷眼中的女皇。行文流畅,偶尔唠叨。
2.《京华烟云》★★★☆☆
一个中国人,用高难度,雅健的英文写出的地道中国人生活––比人非林语堂莫属。
3.《大卫·科波菲尔》★★★☆☆
狄更斯的一本经典的屌丝逆袭作品。一个少年的励志成长经历。世上还是好人多。
4.《冰与火之歌》★★★☆☆
魔幻史诗级作品,各大族群恩爱情仇,各种wiener到处晃荡,各种死人,龙还在路上。
5.《爱丽丝门罗作品集》★★★★☆
女性温柔的笔触下,流露出的是优雅文字间对人生与情感的思索。
【高级】
1.《名利场》★★★★☆
英国作家萨克雷创作的反应时代与社会的小说。名利场里,几多恩怨情仇。
2.《我弥留之际》★★★★☆
精巧的谋篇布局下,是不同视角下对人性的反思。福克纳的语言每一个单词都充满雕琢。
3.《呼啸山庄》★★★★☆
哥特式的爱与恨,跨越两代的恩怨情仇,散文诗一样的语言——由勃朗特家的艾米丽奉献给你。
4.《莎士比亚作品集》★★★★★
优美的十四行sonet?还是高潮迭出的戏剧?全都在这里!莎翁的伟大在于前无古人,后无来者。
5.《圣经》★★★★★
不多说。永恒的经典。
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想提高英文能力不要看文笔优美的而要看情节紧张的。例如一个人的双手被固定在桌面上,再过一定时刻钱送不来这双手就会被砍下......。Money Changers,作者Arthur Hailey(他的书都好看),有不同的版本,简写本适合初级,原版适合提高类。什么时候你只是看故事忘了自己是在看英文那就算读进去了。


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请读 Ayn Rand的The Fountainhead. 无论你是初学者,中级,还是高级,请读The Fountainhead.
我诚心诚意只推荐这一本书,以表达我对它的重视。
它在美国的读者或是学者的推荐名单上都是名列前茅。它是讲什么呢,嗯,就是理想主义是如何被现实世界摧毁,后又重生。它能让你思考很多,让你动容,质疑,愤怒,坚定。它的语言让你时时想要摘抄,却又会发现,你几乎不用查阅生词。作者是俄国人,英语不是母语。但是她却用英语写出了一本几近完美的书,不是很励志吗?
这本书的题材romantic and philosophical。 现实世界中的一个不现实却被变为现实的梦想。

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[b]快速入门指南[/b](入门并不是说文学价值低,用简单的语言描述深刻的思想也是一种牛逼, 如 乔治奥威尔的 动物农场)。入门后就可以根据自己的兴趣选取,差异不过是翻字典的频率罢了。

[b]一:短小精悍型:[/b]
1 [b]Flipped[/b] (怦然心动,读起来轻松愉悦)

2 [b]Animal Farm[/b] (动物农场,诙谐辛辣)

3[b]Silas Marner[/b] (织工马楠,艾略特略具有童话色彩的短篇,难度比前两本大一些,堪称打开19世纪最伟大女性作家世界的钥匙,她的其他作品是非常虐的。。)

[b]二.流行作品类:[/b]
没有一定的语言基础,就直接碰大部头的经典作品,十有八九收获的是失望。经典虽然用词讲究,意义深邃,但对于一个缺乏文学锻炼的人来说是难以理解的,其结果是翻了一两页就停止了。红楼梦虽好,但小学生,初中生怕是不太读得进的。英文更是如此,在图书馆借过狄更斯等的作品,发现前几页都注满了单词解释,后面就空空如也了。借书的肯定觉得自己读完此书就可以独步英语界了,可惜高估了自己的接受能力。我记得高中时代很爱读玄幻(如诛仙 蛮荒等),现在想来,觉得幼稚,但或许那也是一种积淀吧。英语于我们而言并非母语,何不读一些流行作品作为过渡呢?

1. [b]哈利波特[/b],童年回忆,大多数人都读过中文版或看过电影,入手起来相当简单,而且有那么多本,读完一个系列,英语水平就可以上一个台阶。

2. 直接推一个作家,Nicholas Sparks,读过他的[b][i]Dear John[/i][/b],[b][i]Safe Haven[/i][/b] (都是以爱情为主题吧,泪点充足,难度适度,程度好的甚至可以在地铁上, 高铁上 ,飞机上看)

3 再推一个作家,他的作品有[b]达芬奇密码 天使与魔鬼[/b],最近新出了一个[i][b]Inferno[/b][/i](地狱?感兴趣请自查)。他的作品既文艺又悬疑,并且情节紧凑,故事的纵轴也就两三天,因此拿起来就很难放下。 读他的书还有一个好处, 可以当小说版孤独星球用,譬如去巴黎和卢浮宫前看看达芬奇密码,去罗马梵蒂冈前看看天使与魔鬼,去地狱前,不。。。是去佛罗伦萨和威尼斯前看看inferno。读完以后文化背景一下子就都知道了,可以给同去的小伙伴们当讲解装13了。

4.各种书籍的英译本,比如你喜欢村上的话可以看看英文版的挪威森林 1q84,因为是译著,用词不是很难

5. [i][b]One Day[/b] , [/i]看过电影的话建议补一下,很温暖的一本书,平平淡淡才是真。

[b]三. 最后的入门(建议前面的作品至少看过两三本后再进入这个系列)[/b]
1[b][i]the catcher in the rye[/i]麦田守望者[/b],很适合高中或大学阶段阅读,年龄大了的话可能就没有那么多共鸣了。(16岁看村上的 海边的卡夫卡 肯定比61岁时看要好一些 )

2[b] to kill a mocking bird [/b]看完后,对成长 教育 歧视 公平与公正等会有新的认识

3 强推[b]追风筝的人[/b]和[b]灿烂千阳[/b],高中时没有看,因为我不大喜欢跟风,前一阵听了追风筝的人的有声书,觉得很值得一读。作者来自阿富汗,语言难度自然不会很高。

PS.曾想过各种方法提高英语,背过gre 买过[i][b]vocabulary builder[/b][/i]等 但都收效甚微。后来机缘巧合,读了麦田守望者,当时只能读个大意,有时候成段都不知所云,所幸还是坚持下来了。读完以后发现自己的英语确实不一样了。读原著才是提高英语最有效的方法

PS2.0如何判断自己已经完成了入门阶段的修炼? 以前的老师这样教诲我们,什么时候读英文不用正襟危坐,可以在很放松的状况下阅读的话就说明自己英文学到家了。前面提到在地铁上 高铁上阅读,如果你已经达到这个境界的话,英语就已经走出这一阶段了。

PS3.0 关于英语的答题
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[url=http://www.zhihu.com/question/20304556/answer/37323669]有哪些建议英语专业学生学的书? - 周风的回答[/url]
大家的认可是继续答题的动力

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强烈推荐《Short Stories For Comprehension》 共12册,难度循序渐进。这是一系列超级幽默的英美原汁原味笑话集合。同时含有习题和讲解。

看笑话,思考笑话本身就很迷人,同时了解文化。我初中的时候就是看了这套书,英文能力突飞猛进!适合所有人!

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看到英文四级,不知是不是题主谦虚....就提一本简单的书,内容还算有趣又能提高学习效率的书,算是初级热热身吧。
磨刀不误砍柴工,学习方法类的书还是要看一点的,《Learn more Study less》就是这样一本书;而且篇幅不算长,也就两百多页,排版精美,适合速战速决,绝对成就感爆棚;插图很多,形象生动;关键句子不算复杂,段落比较短,好理解,难度应该和四级阅读差不多(所以题主上手起来应该没问题);目前也有中文译本,叫做《如何高效学习》,遇到晦涩难懂的地方可以参考一下。
(当年阅读能力就靠参照着译文研究四六级阅读文章慢慢提高的,不理解地阅读输入是无效的)
找不到原著封面,就贴一张中文版的封面吧
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悲催的是英文版的只能找到pdf版的,怎么找的就不用说了吧,题主就凑合着看吧。。。。

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谢邀。

只限于个人经验,无论学英语还是法语,初级选择莫过于读诗。因为诗歌既短,和歌词差不多,又音韵动人。反而是读故事,稍微题材偏一点的就有无数生词了。

推荐狄金森、惠特曼、朗费罗、弗罗斯特这几位的诗,尤其是朗费罗,挺质朴,又上口。莎翁、勃朗宁的诗虽然壮丽,但有些古词很拗口。

非要读小说的话,海明威向以简洁见称,其早年短篇大多用词不花哨,但耐嚼,很好读。塞林格《九故事》篇幅稍微长一点,但也能看,哪怕有阅读障碍也不是在单词量上。欧·亨利的短篇极好看,用词也很市民不学究,推荐读。

再长一点的,就是《飘》、《简·爱》、《了不起的盖茨比》这些了。


往上一点的,狄更斯那些东西耐读性很强,爱伦坡的诗是有了语感后会觉得好的。
另外我其实很推荐读点儿非英语母语写作者的东西。比如博尔赫斯一些诗和小说的英译般,比如克里斯多夫·阿里森译的村上春树短篇,比如被马尔克斯自己亲自首肯过的《百年孤独》英译本。非母语作者写的东西或英译本,对我们这种学习者其实还蛮友好的,而且不只英语。我读里尔克的法文诗就比波德莱尔的法文诗觉得平易近人。

最后就是学究型作者的小说了。纳博科夫所有拿英文写的小说、库切的小说……当然真有人愿意去啃亨利·詹姆斯那也是个人喜好,我反正不敢碰。




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整本书都是Charlie写的信,对于四级来说看下去应该毫无压力,而且可以顺便了解一下美国高中生的高中生活和遣词造句。
(都是青春啊。)

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经典和名著看腻了的话,可以看看下面这些美国大卖的畅销书。好像还没人推荐过。

1. The Fault in Our Stars 难度:提高
跨越生命的感动。适合年轻人读的书,每个高中生几乎都看过。
2. If I Stay 难度:初级
催泪治愈系。系列共3本。亲情与爱情之间,生与死之间的抉择。
3. Divergent系列 难度:提高
新一代冒险系列。世界观很有创意,故事节奏紧凑。
4. All The Light We Cannot See 难度:提高
现在超级热门的书。每家书店都能看到。温暖,充实,唯美的文字风格。
5. Unbroken 难度:提高
真实故事。相当震撼人心。生命到底可以有多顽强。
6. S. 难度:高级
非常有创意,故事精彩,第一次看到这样的书中书。阅读难度相对很高。
7. Paper Towns 难度:提高
有创意、剧情赞的小说。与1是同一个作者。

再推荐几本自己喜欢的冷门作。
1. Maus 难度:初级
是本graphic novel,简单来说就是本漫画……不,是本Holocaust讽刺漫画。非常有意思。
2. All But My Life 难度:初级
Holocaust幸存者自传。读完相当震撼。有点感动有点upset。
3. Edgar Allen Poe的作品 难度:高级
爱伦坡应该不算是冷门吧。阅读难度比较高,生僻词多。但短篇小说确实是一绝。
4. Beloved 难度:提高
黑暗系剧情,难度大概美国高三高四水平。
5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep 难度:高级
很早的科幻小说,作者想象力非常丰富。很精彩。
6. Flowers for Algernon 难度:提高
也是科幻小说。比较深刻,感人,故事性强。

(PS 只收藏不点赞的人好多 so sad)

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如果阁下对非通俗英语文学有兴趣,小生可以推荐一两本,按照问题顺序回答

初级: 赫爾曼·黑塞(Hermann Hesse)的 Siddhartha 或其其它作品 虽然作者是德国人,但这本小说的英文译本可以说是兼具词藻优美,用词相对简单,入门较易,又有极高的文学性,同时还深度心灵探讨的小说。但若是觉得无聊,看不下去,我倒也想推荐推理作家约瑟芬 铁伊Josephine Tey的任意八部作品中的一部,虽然保守来讲我会把其中时间的女儿 一书列为提高,但是其遣词造句的方式,可以说可以让阁下充分了解英国文学和日常生活中英格兰英语的魅力(笑)

提高:(作家或作品推荐)
约瑟芬铁伊(同上)

再而细分,我以为 P.G伍德豪斯 (P. G. wodehouse) 的 Jeeves and Wooster 系列可以不仅让阁下了解20-30年代左右,乃至现在的英式幽默,笑话,说话,言行谈吐,机智地遣词造句的说话方式,乃至独一无二的old money派生活方式。可以说是消遣的不二首选。


高级:伊夫林 沃 Evelyn Waugh 的小说,比如Scoop, the loved one, Remote People, 或者 Brideshead Revisited. 这些更深层次的接触到文化与社会精神层面。不过依然是英国作家;更上一层或几层难度,佛拉基米尔纳博科夫Vladimir Nabokov的英译长篇作品。如果从理解或认识意识上来讲,我觉得意识流作家的作品,比如 尤利西斯 或者佛吉尼亚伍尔夫的奥兰多都可以归位此类。

“3. 哪些文学类作家的全集提高文学能力和阅读水准适合阅读?类似于萨义德 苏珊桑塔格 罗兰巴特类英文版阅读会不会受困于学术词汇呢?IT 经管 商业 专业类书籍 流行读物 流行小说 畅销有哪些推荐呢? ”

嗯,这是一个好问题。可以参照上面所列举地作家,相信他们任何一位地作品都能让人受益匪浅。

另外,学术或非学术词汇是一直都会出现的,并且我认为即使是一个饱读诗书的,以英语为沐浴的人也难免不会遇到生词。所以常查吧。另外,经济管理,商业的话,与其花大价钱买书籍,不如去订阅经济学人 The Economist 或者Bloomberg Business week.

“4.单就能维持阅读兴趣读下去的英文读物或读本推荐?”

如果喜欢推理小说,那么情节会让您欲罢不能,无法放弃,不可自制地阅读下去。更要命的是,因为很多书其实没有中文译本,所以哪怕字典不离手 咬牙也会坚持下去。但是如果对内容没兴趣,那哪怕是八卦杂志也让人兴奋不起来了。重要的是学则您感兴趣地作家或题材。

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I recommend reading some Ernest Hemingway, who writes in a very simple and clear way. This is a good start. I would not recommend William Shakespeare books until your English is at an extremely advanced level, as he writes in Old English, and this is hard for even native speakers to understand. One of my personal favourite books is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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这本书用一幅幅影像记录了存活于“现在”中的“过去”,这些古老的生物奇观存在于各个大洲,有每世纪增厚一厘米的格陵兰地衣,也有美国俄勒冈州的肉食真菌。她用镜头记录了一部活着的地球历史——其中一些很可能在不久的将来真正得成为历史。截至目前,已经有两种书中记录的植物因为人类活动而灭绝,因此这本书更显宝贵。
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Everything I Never Told You
“Lydia死了,但她的父母还毫不知情……”故事是这样开头的。华裔女作家 CelesteNg 用细腻的笔触,讲述了70 年代的俄亥俄小镇,一个由华裔父亲和白人母亲组成的家庭中发生的故事。
Lydia 是家里最受宠的孩子,父母都对她寄予厚望——母亲 Marilyn 希望她成为一名医生而不是主妇,父亲 James Lee 则想要她成为学校里最受欢迎的女孩,处处都是目光的焦点。当 Lydia 的尸体在湖中出现,表面维持着平衡的家庭开始陷入混乱,他们各自道出藏在内心已久的秘密,这个家越来越分崩离析。
Celeste 早年跟随父母从香港移居美国,对亚裔在美国社会中的孤独和疏离感深有体会,因此书中也着力探讨了跨种族结合家庭中,文化差异引发的各种问题,以及“家”对于他们的意义。
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这是一本真情流露的传记,讲述了非裔美国人Robert Peace 短暂的一生。年轻的他走出纽瓦克贫民窟,考取常春藤名校,也因此开始在两个截然不同的世界之间反复挣扎。
作者Jeff Hobbs 是Robert 在耶鲁大学的室友兼好友。Robert来自犯罪横行的纽瓦克贫民窟,父亲入狱,母亲收入微薄,但他还是凭借优异的成绩考入了耶鲁——这本该让他的生活大大改善,但事实并非如此,无论是在耶鲁还是在纽瓦克,Robert Peace都成了格格不入的异类。
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace 包含了当今美国社会出现频率最高的几类冲突:种族、阶级、毒品、监狱、教育、家庭、友情和爱情。书中呈现了两个几乎不相干的世界——常春藤和贫民窟——之间无法逾越的鸿沟。
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洛克菲勒家族是美国历史上举足轻重的大家族,而1961年,家族第四代成员Michael Rockefeller 在探访原始部落时离奇的失踪更是让全世界猜测至今。知名记者 Carl Hoffman 重走了同一段旅程,从他撰写的新书Savage Harvest 里,我们终于得以知晓令人惊诧的历史真相。
Carl 沿着Michael Rockefeller 失踪前的路线,进入了新几内亚原始丛林,只身闯入了一个充斥着野蛮人和食人族的神秘世界。他认识和了解了当地的阿斯玛特人,并通过长时间调查,找到了失踪事件的知情人。
在这本融合了历史、艺术、冒险和种族文化的新书中,一个信奉古老习俗和传说的原始部落被推到读者面前。它也藉由这位来自美国最富有、最有权势家族的学者的离奇死亡,呈现出“现代”和“原始”之间的激烈冲突。
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Written in My Own Heart’s Blood
在上一部大热小说Outlander 中,作者Diana 讲述了一位已婚的战地护士,从1945年穿越到1743年的苏格兰。CNN 评价它为“一场深入心扉、叩问灵魂的伟大冒险。”同名电视剧已在美国播出。而在今年推出的新书Written in My Own Heart’s Blood 里,故事还在继续。
1778 年,法国向英国开战。作者以此为背景,描绘了大量人物,建立起彼此交错、令人称道的故事线,并融入了大量史料——最终呈现出一部让人一读就停不下来的小说作品。
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The Slanted Door
作为有着“美食奥斯卡”之称的詹姆斯比尔德奖得主,大厨Charles Phan 在新书里讲述了他与开在旧金山的越南餐厅The Slanted Door 之间的故事。
1995年,Charles 受家乡越南影响,在旧金山开了这家越南餐厅。此后的二十年间,餐厅的知名度越来越高,他对传统越南菜的改良也受到各路食客、大厨和美食评论家的喜爱。TheSlanted Door 讲述了餐厅与食客、食物之间的故事,同时附上了几乎所有招牌菜的食谱,让读者可以在家中尝试制作店里的美味。
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Station Eleven
一个雪夜,知名演员Arthur Leander 在演出《李尔王》时心脏病突发,观众席中的记者、前内科医生Jeevan 上台为他急救,但仍然回天乏术。同一天晚上,突如其来的可怕流感开始大范围蔓延。15年后,当初目睹 Arthur 在舞台上离世的新人 Kirsen 也将演出莎士比亚的戏剧,他遭遇一位先知,扬言会为所有愿意离场的人挖掘坟墓……
Station Eleven 是一部大胆的、略带黑暗的小说,讲述好莱坞演员、记者和旅行剧团,为了艺术和人性赌上一切的故事。
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We Were Liars
We Were Liars 是一个关于夏天、青春和秘密的故事。女孩 Cadence 每年夏天都会到外祖父名下的小岛上消夏,某天深夜她独自下海游泳,不幸头部撞上石头,失去了所有的记忆。但在那之后,Cadence被禁止回到岛上,这让她更疯狂地想要找回曾经的记忆。
那一夜到底发生了什么?为何她会在深夜独自游泳?为何所有人都闭口不谈这件事?真相到底是什么?谎言交织着谎言,构成了整个故事的线索,而结局的出乎意料更是让读完小说的读者大呼绝妙。
[b]科普类TOP 1[/b]
What If ?
What If ?是知名网站xkcd 上的漫画作品合集,每一幅都解答了一个你也许从来没有想过的神奇问题。
每周都有数百万人登陆[url=http://xkcd.com/][font=a][size=0px]http://[/size][/font]xkcd.com
[/url],只为看到Randall Munroe 的最新作品。他用标志性的简笔人物形象作画,以此回答来自粉丝们的各种问题,领域涉及科学、技术、语言、爱情等。比如“如果用90%的光速击打排球会发生什么?”、“最快可以用多少速度冲向减速带,还能让你活下去?”
为了寻求答案,Munroe无所不用其极——他用电脑进行模拟、在成堆的军事研究材料里疯狂搜索、找核反应操作员聊天……再将得出的答案创作成独具风格的漫画,最终集合成这部兼具科普和趣味的创意版《十万个为什么》。
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The Innovators
乔布斯传》作者Walter Isaacson 推出有声书The Innovators,书中记述了更多IT 界传奇人物的故事,它也注定成为现代数字革命的一部标准史。
这些IT 界传奇们是如何吸引投资人实现他们的创意的?又是什么让他们的思维产生质的飞跃?他们中哪些人成功了,哪些人却遭遇惨败?这本有声书让大佬们亲口述说自己的经历,向这个不断孵化创造力的时代进行一次集体致敬。
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Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? 是漫画家 Roz Chast 基于自身家庭经历的创作,将她最具代表性的幽默融入“年迈的父母”这一主题中,用漫画讲述了处在人生最后阶段的父亲母亲的小故事,让人读下来笑中带泪。
作为独生子女的Roz,在照顾父母上需要承担更多压力,书中除了漫画,也包含了真实的家庭照片和她用文字写成的心声,让经历过相同阶段的读者产生巨大共鸣。
[b]家居类TOP 1[/b]
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
来自日本的居家达人Marie Kondo 在书中手把手地教读者利用她独创的“KonMari 整理法”,轻轻松松简化收纳方式,更好地利用每一寸家居空间。
对很多人来说,坚持整理通常都是最难做到的,而Marie Kondo 认为只要按照她的方式进行分类,就无需日继一日地反复。她的秘诀在于“细致、细致、更细致的分类”,读者也能够通过这本书,既了解到日本最热门的生活方式,更能享受整理的乐趣。
[b]历史类TOP 1[/b]
the Kingdom of Ice
19 世纪末期,当时的人类对于世界上最后一块未被探知的区域——北极——陷入了疯狂的着迷,没有人知道北冰洋的另一边藏着怎样的世界。当时首屈一指的地图绘制师、德国人August Petermann 坚持认为,在地球的顶端有一个常年翠绿的岛屿,是暖流汇聚的人间天堂。
一向特立独行的《纽约先驱报》拥有者James Gordon Bennett 投资建立了一支探险队,32 名队员带着疑问和好奇,开始了迈向未知世界的探险。


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推荐<<Demons ing the spring>>(我最近才看的)by Joe Meno.[img=100,328]https://pic2.zhimg.com/678584756f3dd5d6d3e54ef9aae729a5_b.jpg[/img]如果条件允许,可以买原版书看哟,包装精美,纸质优良,里面的插画画的也很有风格。(这个图体现不了它的精美,一定要去找纸质的哟)。google book上也可以搜到。

它是收集了20个不同故事,和以往中规中矩看的故事不太一样,故事情节会比较反转,有的看了之后会觉得极度孤独,或者有的有点小感动,总之每篇故事情节会特别不一样。

难度系数:3颗星。但是如果你跳过所有的生词,也能完全读懂。我就是这么跳着读,没有查一个词^-^

纯属故事,跟任何专业领域都不相干,不会影响理解。

至于兴趣,因为有20个故事,情节完全互不相干,所以你想看哪篇就哪篇。

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这种问题下的回答居然没人推荐GEB真是匪夷所思···
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有什么适合大声朗读、文笔优美的英文散文?
[color=#222222]准备做口译,老师希望能找一些写得优美的英文散文来读,锻炼口语流畅度和对英语的感觉,有什么推荐的作者以及作品集吗?
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谢邀。一早接到邀请,一直在找静静拖到今天。
说到朗读,又说到散文,我第一想到的就是伍尔夫和王尔德。两位的essay都近于诗体散文,读书之杂,辞藻之美,语出之犀利,一直是数一数二的。在之前的一些回答里也说过,听了几年的BBC drama,深深觉得伍尔夫的东西真的要读出来才能品味到。

1、王尔德的散文诗(online audio):
[url=http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/109/selected-american-and-british-poems/5237/le-jardin-des-tuileries/]Le Jardin Des Tuileries[/url]
[url=http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/109/selected-american-and-british-poems/5231/impressions/]Impressions | Selected American and British Poems[/url]
[url=http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/109/selected-american-and-british-poems/5226/humanitad/]Humanitad | Selected American and British Poems[/url]
[url=http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/109/selected-american-and-british-poems/5210/the-ballad-of-reading-gaol/]The Ballad of Reading Gaol[/url]

2、毒舌少年写过的The Picture of Dorian Gray的序言(Preface)《论艺术》也是深入我心呐:
THE ARTIST Is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is a hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That's all.

The nineteenth-century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth-century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things tha are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Thought and language are to the artist instrumants of an art.

Vice and virture are to the materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Dversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

3、伍尔夫
A Room of One's Own
Death of a Moth :从前的精读课文。伍尔夫用词之丰富精细可见一斑。
The Common Reader
Modern Fiction
Orlando (其实是传记,但是强烈推荐)

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I can also assure you that China is eager and ready to cooperate with you and other peoples to lay a true and lasting foundation for a sane and progressive world society which would make it impossible for any arrogant or predatory neighbor to plunge future generations into another orgy of blood.
余亦能确告诸君,吾人渴望并准备与诸君及其他民族合作,共同奠定一种真实与持久之基础,以建设一合理而进步之世界社会,使任何恣肆骄狂或劫掠成性之邻国,不复能使后世之人,再遭流血之惨剧。


宋美龄女士讲英文不快,但极有顿挫,有腔有调,风采飞扬。写英文更是用词精致,文雅而有力。美联社的记者说她的咬字(articulation)比撒切尔夫人还要好。
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如其抗战演讲所说,“Man’s mettle is tested both in adversity and in success. Twice is this true of the soul of a nation. 个人之品德,于困厄中验之,亦于成功中验之。以言一国之精神,倍加真确。”

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葛底斯堡演讲真的超赞,不开玩笑
培根的论学,高中的时候超喜欢那个,译过骈文
ambition,也是一篇雄文

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泻药。首推Samuel 的“Youth”,我背的滚瓜烂熟的一篇。
不知道为什么这么多人提到新东方…我从来没上过新东方………
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
  Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
  Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
  Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.
  When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you've grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.


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Fourscore and seven years ago...

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是时候把我珍藏的几篇文章拿出来了:

[b]1. Youth -- Samuel Vllman[/b]
作者塞缪尔年逾70才开始写作,笔力练达老成,这篇《青春》一经发表便不胫而走,影响了非常多人,文章非常经典,建议珍藏背诵。

"Whether they are sixteen or seventy,there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts,the undaunted challenge of events,the unfailing childlike appetite for what is to come next, and the joy and the game of life."

[b]2. Happiness Is a Journey -- Crystal Boyd[/b]

我非常喜欢的一篇文章,文章简洁有力,朗朗上口,推荐每个人都去读一读。

We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we’re frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough and we’ll be more content when they are. After that, we’re frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We’ll certainly be happy when they’re out of that stage.

We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, are able to go on a nice vacation, when we retire.

The truth is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?

Your life will always be filled with challenges. It’s best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway.

One of my favorite quotes comes from Alfred D. Souza. He said, “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”

This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with…and remember that time waits for no one.

[b]So, stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you’re off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you’ve had a drink, until you’ve sobered up, until you die, until you’re born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy.[/b]

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

网上曾流传是Alfred D'Souza 神父的作品,后来考证其真实作者是 Crystal Boyd ,链接说明: [url=http://happinessisajourney.com/]Happiness is a Journey[/url]

从本文中也引申出了很多名句,比如下面这个:
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[b]3. When Love Beckons To You -- Kahlil Gibran [/b]
纪伯伦的名篇,这篇 [b]When Love Beckons To You[/b] 出自其代表作《先知》(The Prophet),初稿在他年仅15岁时出炉,并于1923 年直接用英文在美国出版,《先知》以一位智者临别赠言的形式,论述爱与美,生与死,婚姻与家庭等一系列的人生和社会问题,充满比喻和哲理的东方色彩。[b]When Love Beckons To You [/b]最著名的应该是这句 :
[b]When love beckons to you, follow him,[/b]
[b]Though his ways are hard and steep.[/b]
[b]And when his wings enfold you yield to him,[/b]
[b]Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.[/b]
[b]And when he speaks to you believe in him,[/b]
[b]Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.[/b]

[b]4. On Studies -- Francis Bacon[/b]
培根的《论读书》,字字珠玑,极富思辨色彩,下面这段话与诸君共勉:

[b]"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.“[/b]
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[b]5. Summer Sunrises on the Mississippi -- Mark Twain [/b]
马克吐温的名篇《密西西比河上夏天的日出》,文章短小精悍,动词用得极其出色灵活,你们感受一下:

I had myself called with the four o'clock watch, mornings, for [b]one cannot see too many summer sunrises on the Mississippi[/b]. They are enchanting.First, there is the eloquence of silence; for a deep hush broods everywhere.Next, there is the haunting sense of loneliness, isolation, remoteness from the worry and bustle of the world.The dawn creeps in stealthily; the solid walls of black forest soften to gray, and vast stretches of the river open up and reveal themselves; the water is glass-smooth, gives off spectral little wreaths of white mist, there is not the faintest breath of wind, nor stir of leaf; the tranquillity is profound and infinitely satisfying. Then a bird pipes up, another follows, and soon the pipings develop into a jubilant riot of music.You see none of the birds; you simply move through an atmosphere of song which seems to sing itself.When the light has become a little stronger, you have one of the fairest and softest pictures imaginable. You have the intense green of the massed and crowded foliage near by; you see it paling shade by shade in front of you; upon the next projecting cape, a mile off or more, the tint has lightened to the tender young green of spring; the cape beyond that one has almost lost color, and the furthest one, miles away under the horizon, sleeps upon the water a mere dim vapor, and hardly separable from the sky above it and about it.And all this stretch of river is a mirror, and you have the shadowy reflections of the leafage and the curving shores and the receding capes pictured in it. Well, that is all beautiful; soft and rich and beautiful; and when the sun gets well up, and distributes a pink flush here and a powder of gold yonder and a purple haze where it will yield the best effect, you grant that you have seen something that is worth remembering.


[b]6. The Joys of Writing -- Winston Churchill [/b]
丘吉尔的《写作的乐趣》,其中有一段广为流传:

”To my mind, to be able to make your work your pleasure is the one class distinction in the world worth striving for; and I do not wonder that others are inclined to envy those happy human beings who find their livelihood in the gay effusions of their fancy, to whom every hour of labour is an hour of enjoyment, to whom repose—however necessary—is a tiresome interlude. And even a holiday is almost deprivation. Whether a man writes well or ill, has much to say or little, if he cares about writing at all, he will appreciate the pleasures of composition. “

[b]7. Blood,Toil,Tears and Sweat -- Winston L. S. Churchill[/b]

1940年5月8日,由于前首相张伯伦遭到不信任质疑动议,被迫辞职。5月10日下午6时,国王召见丘吉尔,令其组阁;一小时后丘吉尔会见工党领袖艾德礼,邀请工党加入内阁并获得支持。3天后丘吉尔首次以首相身份出席下议院会议,发表了著名的讲话: [b]Blood,Toil,Tears and Sweat . [/b]


”你们问:我们的目的是什么?我可以用一个词来答复:胜利,不惜一切代价去争取胜利,无论多么恐怖也要争取胜利,无论道路多么遥远艰难,也要争取胜利,因为没有胜利就无法生存”,“ 下议院最终以381票对0票的绝对优势表明了对丘吉尔政府的支持。 " [b]I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.[/b]" 即出自此文。

We are in the preliminary stage of one of the greatest battles in history.... That we are in action at many points—in Norway and in Holland—, that we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean. That the air battle is continuous, and that many preparations have to be made here at home.

I would say to the House as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs—Victory in spite of all terror—Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.

全文链接:[url=http://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/blood-toil-tears-and-sweat]Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat[/url]

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葛底斯堡演讲

卧槽 你们怎么这么能膜 我只是普通的答题而已(斜眼

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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Meet Sandy and Sue. This is Sue's class. Her teacher's Mr. Crisp.

Which is your pen Sue?
The red one sir.
Here you are Sue.
Thank you sir.

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推荐抖森念的诗,
每一篇都是很不错的,简直是耳朵怀孕系列
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Of Study
论读书。
不管是中文版,还是英文版都值得背下来。
最主要是作者深得我心。

芝士就是力量,法国就是培根。

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I have a dream.
当年读过若干遍,听过若干遍。马丁路德金,真是人才。

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推荐莎翁的十四行诗。虽然不是散文,但读起来节奏感强,文字也古雅优美。

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强烈推荐新东方生而为赢系列,一共30篇

目录:
•第一篇:Youth 青春
•第二篇: Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明(节选)
•第三篇:Companionship of Books 以书为伴(节选)
•第四篇:If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息,我就会生锈
•第五篇:Ambition 抱负
•第六篇:What I have Lived for 我为何而生
•第七篇:When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤
•第八篇:The Road to Success 成功之道
•第九篇:On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人
•第十篇:The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半
•第十一篇:What is Your Recovery Rate? 你的恢复速率是多少?
•第十二篇:Clear Your Mental Space 清理心灵的空间
•第十三篇:Be Happy 快乐
•第十四篇:The Goodness of life 生命的美好
•第十五篇:Facing the Enemies Within 直面内在的敌人
•第十六篇:Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式
•第十七篇:Human Life a Poem 人生如诗
•第十八篇:Solitude 独处
•第十九篇:Giving Life Meaning 给生命以意义
•第二十篇:Relish the Moment 品位现在
•第二十一篇:The Love of Beauty 爱美
•第二十二篇:The Happy Door 快乐之门
•第二十三篇:Born to Win 生而为赢
•第二十四篇:Work and Pleasure 工作和娱乐
•第二十五篇:Mirror, Mirror--What do I see镜子,镜子,告诉我
•第二十六篇:On Motes and Beams 微尘与栋梁
•第二十七篇:An October Sunrise 十月的日出
•第二十八篇:To Be or Not to Be 生存还是毁灭
•第二十九篇:Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说
•第三十篇:First Inaugural Address(Excerpts) 就职演讲(节选)

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《It's not how good you are,it's How good you want to be.》

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When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To serve for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss,
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this!
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Suck chill or my brow
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy cows are all broken,
And light is thy fame;
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.
They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o'er me
Why wert thou so dear?
Thy know not I knew thee
who knew thee too well:
Long, Long shall I rue thee
Too deeply to tell.
In secret we [url=https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=met&tn=44039180_cpr&fenlei=mv6quAkxTZn0IZRqIHckPjm4nH00T1YLPWDvPhDvmH9WrjTzmHw90ZwV5Hcvrjm3rH6sPfKWUMw85HfYnjn4nH6sgvPsT6K1TL0qnfK1TL0z5HD0IgF_5y9YIZ0lQzqlpA-bmyt8mh7GuZR8mvqVQL7dugPYpyq8Q1fzP16Ln1fdr0]met[/url]—
In silence I grieve
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee ?
With silence and tears.

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traditional chinese doctors believe we need a balance of yin and yang to be healthy,,,,,

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乔治六世《圣诞演说》

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Peace War Found,

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谢邀!

我看到的问题是这样的:
有什么适合大声朗读、文笔优美的英文散文?修改
准备做口译,老师希望能找一些写得优美的英文散文来读,锻炼口语流畅度和对英语的感觉,有什么推荐的作者以及作品集吗?

[list=1][*]所有的英文散文都可以...[*]但是为什么要“大声朗读”?这对锻炼口语流畅度和对英语的感觉有什么帮助?难道你是在学李阳的疯狂英语么?[/list]

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