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American & English Literature1. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804~1864) 小说以两百多年前的殖民地时代的美洲为题材，但揭露的却是19世纪资本主义发展时代美利坚合众国社会典法的残酷、宗教的欺骗和道德的虚伪。主人公海丝特被写成了崇高道德的化身。她不但感化了表里不一的丁梅斯代尔，同时也在感化着充满罪恶的社会。 至于她的丈夫奇林渥斯，小说则把他写成了一个一心只想窥秘复仇的影子式的人物。他在小说中只起情节铺垫的作用。 小说惯用象征手法，人物、情节和语言都颇具主观想象色彩，在描写中又常把人的心理活动和直觉放在首位。因此，它不仅是美利坚合众国浪漫主义小说的代表作，同时也被称作是美利坚合众国心理分析小说的开创篇。2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811~1896)《汤姆叔叔的小屋》通过汤姆叔叔、乔治夫妇等黑奴们曲折经历的描述，揭发和控诉了黑暗的奴隶制度，在当时的美国社会背景下，不失为引发、推动废奴运动的惊世之作。3. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835~1910)《汤姆•索亚历险记》是马克•吐温的四大名著之一。小说描写的是以汤姆•索亚为首的一群孩子天真浪漫的生活。他们为了摆脱枯燥无味的功课、虚伪的教义和呆板的生活环境，作出了种种冒险经历。4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835~1910)哈克贝里•芬历险记 小说中的主人公哈克对黑奴富有同情心，但又受到宗教的欺骗宣传和种族歧视思想的毒害，因此经常被一个“道德”难题所困扰，根据当时的法律，他应该帮助追捕逃亡在外的黑权，并把他送还给他的“主人”；但是在他心目中吉姆始终是一个人，而不是一样“东西”，是人就应该享受人的基本权利，如人身自由、温饱、正常的家庭生活等，哈克反复思索着这个问题，最后决心帮助吉姆逃走，哪怕是“下地狱”也义无返顾。5. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1871~1900)是描写美国南北战争的影片中既具史诗风格亦兼具角色心理探讨的精彩之作。6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896~1940)20世纪美国著名作家司各特•菲茨杰拉德（Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940）的名著《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby）。这部作品被公认为美国20世纪爵士年代（Jazz Age）文坛上的代表作。作品写的是盖茨比“美国梦”的破灭。盖茨比名字前加上great一词充分体现了作者反意讽刺的辛辣笔锋。7. The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner8. The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1899 ~1961)《老人与海》，美国作家海明威著。《老人与海》是海明威的代表作，也是一部象征性的小说。主人公圣地亚哥是一位老渔夫，他经过重重艰险，捕获了“一条不止一千五百磅重的大马林鱼”，但这条大马林鱼却被鲨鱼吃光了，圣地亚哥只拖回了一副鱼的骨架。9. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1899 ~1961)《永别了，武器》一书系美国著名小说家海明威早期代表作。被誉为现代文学的经典名篇。此书以爱情与战争两条主线，阐述了作者对战争及人生的看法和态度。10. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1899 ~1961)作品描写了主人公美国青年乔顿，他志愿参加西班牙人民的反法西斯斗争，奉命在一支山区游击队的配合下，在指定时间炸毁一座具有战略意义的桥梁。乔顿炸毁了桥梁，在身负重伤的情况下独自狙击敌人，等待他的是死亡。乔顿有高度的正义感和责任心，他因自己能为反法西斯斗争捐躯而感到光荣和自豪。这部作品是海明威中期创作中思想性最强的作品之一，在相当程度上克服和摆脱了孤独、迷惘与悲泣的情绪，把个人融入到社会中，表现出为正义事业而献身的崇高精神。 11. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1914~ )12. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1931~ )13. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1944~ )14. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe15. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift16. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen17. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen18. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray19. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens被誉为十九世纪英国写实主义大师狄更斯最著名的传记类作品.遗腹子大卫从小和母亲相依为命，但随著母亲再婚，他被继父送进寄宿学校后，一连串严酷的命运就逐渐笼罩他，好不容易走出一片天，却又面临到感情的两难抉择。文豪狄更斯藉由情节层层推演，主角的遭遇忽喜忽悲，时而哀伤，时而欢笑，展现人生的苦与甜。20. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy21. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence22. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James23. Daisy Miller by Henry James24. Martin Eden by Jack London《马丁•伊登》是杰克•伦敦的代表作，带有自传性质。主人公马丁•伊登原是一个年轻的普通水手。一次偶然的机会，他结识了银行家莫斯的女儿罗丝。他崇拜罗丝的纯洁高雅，而罗丝也被他的粗野不羁所吸引。在爱情的鼓舞下，马丁刻苦读书，发奋写作。但他们的感情遭到了莫斯夫妇的反对，罗丝同马丁断绝了来往。后来马丁以极大的毅力获得了成功，成为名作家。原先对他不屑一顾的人都对他另眼相看。罗丝也想重修旧好，被马丁愤然拒绝。然而马丁跻身于上流社会后，却看透了资产者的自私和虚伪，在幻灭的痛苦中投海自杀。 25. The Woman in White by William Wilkie Collins26. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser西奥多•德莱塞，美国现代小说的先驱和代表作家，被认为是同海明威、福克纳并列的的美国现代小说的三大巨头。出生于一个移民家庭。少年生活贫穷，常遭邻居歧视，这在他以后的作品中留下很深的烙印。酷爱读书，21岁成为一位报社记者。23岁发表了他的第一部小说《嘉莉妹妹》。小说描写了农村姑娘嘉莉来到大城市芝加哥寻找幸福，为摆脱贫困，出卖自己的贞操，先后与推销员和酒店经理同居，后又凭美貌与歌喉成为歌星的故事。27. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James28. Wuthering Height by Emily Bronte艾米莉.勃朗待，Emily Bronte，1818～1848，英国女作家，夏洛蒂•勃朗特之妹，安妮•勃朗特之姐。她们三姐妹的三部小说——夏洛蒂的《简•爱》、艾米莉的《呼啸山庄》和小妹妹安妮的《艾格尼斯•格雷》是同一年问世的。除《呼啸山庄》外，艾米莉还创作了193首诗，被认为是英国一位天才的女作家。29. Hard Times by Charles Dickens30. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy31. Great Expectation by Charles Dickens32. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy33. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain34. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 35. The Godfather by Mario Puzo 36. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.列夫·托尔斯泰：幸福的家庭都是相似的,不幸的家庭却各有各的不幸。一、俄语原文。Все счастливые семьи похожи, несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.二、人物简介：列夫·尼古拉耶维奇·托尔斯泰，19世纪中期俄国批判现实主义作家、文学家、思想家，哲学家。世袭伯爵，曾参加克里米亚战争。返回雅斯纳·亚波利亚纳的农庄后致力于农民教育。1862年结婚后，创作了俄罗斯文学史上的巨著《战争与和平》（1859～1869）、《安娜·卡列尼娜》（1875～1877）。1879年经历了一次信仰危机后信奉和平主义，主张以勿抗恶的方式对社会进行改革。并否定自己以前的作品。因执着于自己的信念使家庭关系恶化，死于出奔途中。其作品多达45卷。名著还有长篇小说《复活》（1899）、戏剧《黑暗的势力》（1886）和若干短篇小说和评论。他的文学传统不仅通过高尔基而为苏联作家所批判地继承和发展，在世界文学中也有其巨大影响。在文学创作和社会活动中，他提出了“托尔斯泰主义”，对很多政治运动有着深刻影响。

这是托尔斯泰的名著中的一句话。下面的英语译文均可参考。Happy families are all alike， every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Happy families are all alike, unhappy family has his unhappy in its ownAll happy families are alike , however , each unfortunate family has their own misfortuneHappiness are alike in happy family, while different in those unhappy.

《飘》的畅销盛况一度成为出版史上的一段佳话。下面是我带来的外国名著经典英语段落 ，欢迎阅读!

Gerald had come to America from Ireland when he was twenty-one. He had come hastily, as many a better and worse Irishman before and since, with the clothes he had on his back, twoshillings above his passage money and a price on his head that he felt was larger than his misdeed warranted. There was no Orangeman this side of hell worth a hundred pounds to the British government or to the devil himself; but if the government felt so strongly about the death of an English absentee landlord’s rent agent, it was time for Gerald O’Hara to be leaving and leaving suddenly. True, he had called the rent agent “a bastard of an Orangeman,” but that, according to Gerald’s way of looking at it, did not give the man any right to insult him by whistling the opening bars of “The Boyne Water.”

21岁那年杰拉尔德来到美国。他是匆匆而来像以前或以后许多好好坏坏的爱尔兰人那样，因为他只带着身上穿的衣服和买船票剩下的两个先令，以及悬赏捉拿他的那个身价，而且他觉得这个身价比他的罪行所应得的还高了一些。世界上还没有一个奥兰治派分子值得英国政府或魔鬼本身出一百镑的;但是如果政府对于一个英国的不在地主地租代理人的死会那么认真，那么杰拉尔德·奥哈拉的突然出走便是适时的了。的确，他曾经称呼过地租代理人为"奥兰治派野崽子"不过，按照杰拉尔德对此事的看法，这并不使那个人就有权哼着《博因河之歌》那开头几句来侮辱他。

The Battle of the Boyne had been fought more than a hundred years before, but, to the O’Haras and their neighbors, it might have been yesterday when their hopes and their dreams, as well as their lands and wealth, went off in the same cloud of dust that enveloped a frightened and fleeing Stuart prince, leaving William of Orange and his hated troops with their orangecockades to cut down the Irish adherents of the Stuarts.

博因河战役是一百多年以前的事了，但是在奥哈拉家族和他们的邻里看来，就像昨天发生的事，那时他们的希望和梦想，他们的土地和钱财，都在那团卷着一位惊惶逃路的斯图尔特王子的魔雾中消失了，只留下奥兰治王室的威廉和他那带着奥兰治帽徽的军队来屠杀斯图尔特王朝的爱尔兰依附者了。

For this and other reasons, Gerald’s family was not inclined to view the fatal outcome of thisquarrel as anything very serious, except for the fact that it was charged with seriousconsequences. For years, the O’Haras had been in bad odor with the English constabulary onaccount of suspected activities against the government, and Gerald was not the first O’Hara totake his foot in his hand and quit Ireland between dawn and morning. His two oldest brothers,James and Andrew, he hardly remembered, save as close-lipped youths who came and went atodd hours of the night on mysterious errands or disappeared for weeks at a time, to theirmother’s gnawing anxiety. They had come to America years before, after the discovery of asmall arsenal of rifles buried under the O’Hara pigsty. Now they were successful merchants inSavannah, “though the dear God alone knows where that may be,” as their mother alwaysinterpolated when mentioning the two oldest of her male brood, and it was to them thatyoung Gerald was sent.

由于这个以及别的原因，杰拉尔德的家庭并不想把这场争吵的毁灭结果看得十分严重，只把它看作是一桩有严重影响的事而已。多年来，奥哈拉家与英国警察部门的关系很不好，原因是被怀疑参与了反政府活动，而杰拉尔德并不是奥哈拉家族中头一个暗中离开爱尔兰的人。他几乎想不其他的两个哥哥詹姆斯和安德鲁，只记得两个闷声不响的年轻人，他们时常在深夜来来去去，干一些神秘的钩当，或者一走就是好几个星期，使母亲焦急万分。他们是许多年前人们在奥哈拉家猪圈里发现在一批理藏的来福枪之到美国的。现在他们已在萨凡纳作生意发了家，"虽然只有上帝才知道那地方究竟在哪里"----他们母亲提起这两个大儿子时老是这样说，年轻的杰拉尔德就是给送到两位哥哥这里来的。

He left home with his mother's hasty kiss on his cheek and her fervent Catholic blessing in his ears, and his father's parting admonition, “Remember who ye are and don’t be taking nothing off no man.” His five tall brothers gave him good-by with admiring but slightly patronizingsmiles, for Gerald was the baby and the little one of a brawny family.

离家出走时，母亲在他脸上匆匆吻了一下，并贴着耳朵说了一声天主教的祝福，父亲则给了临别赠言，"要记住自己是谁，不要学别人的样。"他的五位高个子兄弟羡慕而略带关注地微笑着向他道了声再见，因为杰拉尔德在强壮的一家人中是最小和最矮的一个。

His five brothers and their father stood six feet and over and broad in proportion, but littleGerald, at twenty-one, knew that five feet four and a half inches was as much as the Lord in Hiswisdom was going to allow him. It was like Gerald that he never wasted regrets on his lack ofheight and never found it an obstacle to his acquisition of anything he wanted. Rather, it wasGerald’s compact smallness that made him what he was, for he had learned early that littlepeople must be hardy to survive among large ones. And Gerald was hardy.

他父亲和五个哥哥都身六英尺以上，其粗壮的程度也很相称，可是21岁的小个子杰拉尔德懂得，五英尺四英寸半便是上帝所能赐给他的最大高度了。对杰拉尔德来说，他从不以自己身材矮小而自怨自艾，也从不认为这会阻碍他去获得自己所需要的一切。更确切些不如说，正是杰拉尔德的矮小精干使他成为现在这样，因为他早就明白矮小的人必须在高大者中间顽强地活下去。而杰拉尔德是顽强的。

His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever,rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor. Had Gerald been brawny, he wouldhave gone the way of the other O’Haras and moved quietly and darkly among the rebels againstthe government But Gerald was “loud-mouthed and bullheaded,” as his mother fondly phrasedit, hair trigger of temper, quick with his fists and possessed of a chip on his shoulder so largeas to be almost visible to the naked eye. He swaggered among the tall O’Haras like a struttingbantam in a barnyard of giant Cochin roosters, and they loved him, baited him affectionatelyto hear him roar and hammered on him with their large fists no more than was necessary tokeep a baby brother in his proper place.

他那些高个儿哥哥是些冷酷寡言的人，在他们身上，历史光荣的传统已经永远消失，沦落为默默的仇恨，爆裂出痛苦的幽默来了。要是杰拉尔德也生来强壮，他就会走上向奥哈拉家族中其他人的道路，在反政府的行列中悄悄地、神秘地干起来。可杰拉尔德像他母亲钟爱地形容的那样，是个"高嗓门，笨脑袋"，嬷嬷暴躁，动辄使拳头，并且盛气凌人，叫人见人怕。他在那些高大的奥哈拉家族的人中间，就像一只神气十足的矮脚鸡在满院子大个儿雄鸡中间那样，故意昂首阔步，而他们都爱护他，亲切地怂恿地高声喊叫，必要时也只伸出他们的大拳头敲他几下，让这位小弟弟不要太得意忘形了。

了不起的盖茨比，菲茨杰拉德的经典