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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
If the most precious gift of the novel as a medium is the power it has to break into the prison of human consciousness, to expose the gossamer (蛛丝似的,纤细缥缈的) weave of thought and feeling and memory that makes up our innermost lives, then Woolf's fourth novel stands alone at the pinnacle(顶峰). Virginia Woolf made modernism live and breathe.
Great Expectations might be the quintessential British novel. To re-read Dickens' classic as an adult is to discover its wit and brio(文笔生动), its influence, and its truth. It has all the elements of classic Dickens – endearing, flawed characters; a plot that skewers(串住、刺穿) the politics of the time; subplots that skewer morality and culture; a love story; and a wonderful storyline.
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 description of her complex moral choices and sometimes raw emotional states.
产生对英语的热情,扩大英语词汇量的最好方法就是:读英文原版书!因此,本文列出了中小学生或英语入门者最值得、最容易读懂的10本英文书,边乐边学。NO.1 TheLittle Prince《小王子》《小王子》是作家安东尼·德·圣埃克苏佩里于1942写成的著名法国儿童文学短篇小说。本书的主人公是来自外星球的小王子。书中以一位飞行员作为故事叙述者,讲述了小王子从自己星球出发前往地球的过程中,所经历的各种历险。作者以小王子的孩子式的眼光,透视出成人的空虚、盲目和愚妄,用浅显天真的语言写出了人类的孤独寂寞、没有根基随风流浪的命运。同时,也表达出作者对金钱关系的批判,对真善美的讴歌。NO.2 The lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 《狮子,女巫和魔衣柜》NO.3 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz《绿野仙踪》NO.4Charlotte's Web 《夏洛的网》NO.5 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 《爱丽丝漫游奇境》NO.6 Peter Pan 《彼得•潘》NO.7 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 《查理和他的巧克力工厂》NO.8The Old Man and the Sea《老人与海》《老人与海》(The Old Man and the Sea),是现代美国小说作家海明威创作于1952年的一部中篇小说,也是作者生前发表的最后一部小说。作为他最著名的作品之一,它围绕一位老年古巴渔夫展开,讲述他与一条巨大的马林鱼在离岸很远的湾流中搏斗的历程。虽然对它有不同的文学评价,但它在20世纪小说和海明威的作品中是值得注目的,奠定了他在世界文学中的突出地位。 1953年5月4日海明威的《老人与海》获得普利策奖。NO.9 The House on Mango Street 《芒果街上的小屋》NO.10 The Cricket in Times Square 《时代广场的蟋蟀》除此之外,哈利波特系列、《动物农场》等经典名著也很适合作为课外读物。选择自己喜欢的题材,坚持读几十本,效果很显著哦~