英语小说

由于英汉语言的文化差异,英文小说的行文习惯、思维方式、表达特点等,都与中文小说有着很大的区别。哪些英文小说适合英语学习?以下是我推荐给大家的关于初学者的英文小说，一起来看看有没有你喜欢的小说吧!

1、Bleak House

《荒凉之屋》，2011年

作者：Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯

Bleak House is among Dickens novels, uniquely original in its alternation of first-person past-tense chapters with a concurrent third-person account in present tense.

《荒凉之屋》是狄更斯的小说之一，以第一人称过去时所写的章节与第三人称现在时的叙述并行，两者间的切换创新独到。

2、 Wuthering Heights

《呼啸山庄》，2012年

作者：Emily Brontë 艾米莉·勃朗特

Wuthering Heights is "powered by more psychological energy than any book ever written". Readers admire Wuthering Heights because of "its layered narrative structure, because it is a work of incredible imagination, and because it is far more than a love story. The story shows "the eternal rocks beneath" our fleeting desires.

《呼啸山庄》“蕴含巨大的心理能量，没有其它书籍能够与之匹敌。”读者推崇《呼啸山庄》是因为其“层层叠叠的叙述结构”和丰富惊人的想象力，更因为《呼啸山庄》超越了爱情故事本身，展现了我们转瞬即逝的欲望之下“永恒的震撼”。

3、David Copperfield

《大卫·科波菲尔》，2006年

作者：Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯

David Copperfield is populated by some of the most vivid characters ever created. They are as much a part of readers' world, and their way of thinking about the world, as people they have actually met.

《大卫·科波菲尔》中云集了许多创造得最为鲜活的一些人物形象。这些人物角色仿佛是读者所在真实世界的一部分，和读者亲身遇见的人一样，有着相似的世界观。

4、Frankenstein

《弗兰肯斯坦》，1981年

作者：Mary Shelley 玛莉·雪莱

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".

这部先锋作品集科幻和哥特式恐怖于一身，营造了一个难以磨灭的“恶魔”主题，即科学家中的“现代普罗米修斯”，几世纪以来经久不衰。

5、Vanity Fair

《名利场》，1848年

作者：William Makepeace Thackeray

威廉·梅克皮斯·萨克雷

This novel features probably the greatest anti-heroine in English literature, Becky Sharp, and a plot that revolves around class, social climbing and a financial crisis that will seem eerily familiar to modern readers. Vanity Fair has it all. It both speaks of its time, and speaks of all times.

这部小说的主角或许是英国文学史上最知名的非正统派女主角——贝奇·夏普，小说的情节围绕阶级、跻身上流社会以及引发现代读者奇异的熟悉感的金融危机。《名利场》这些要素全都具备, 讲述那个年代，也讲述着所有年代。

1、 Middlemarch

《米德尔马契》，1874年

作者：George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

A novel of great characters, it's an even greater novel of ideas and ideals. Middlemarch is the greatest social and psychological novel ever written in English.

这部小说人物角色卓越，更精妙之处在于其想法与理念。《米德尔马契》是迄今最伟大的英文写就的社会和心理学小说。

2、To the Lighthouse

《到灯塔去》，1927年

作者：Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙

Subtle, beautiful, staggeringly intelligent and flat-out original. A masterpiece of modernism, its stream-of-consciousness, richness of language and perceptions has continued to reveal itself.

细腻美妙、智慧惊人，极其新颖独到。现代派的大师之作，运用意识流写法，其语言丰富、观察敏锐，不言自明。

3、Mrs Dalloway

《达洛卫夫人》，1925年

作者：Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙

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.

如果说这部小说作为媒介最天才之处在于其破除人类意识的囹圄、暴露人们那些构成内在世界的细若蛛丝的思绪、情感和记忆，那么伍尔芙的第四部小说就是孤立巅峰之作。弗吉尼亚让现代主义焕发生命、鲜活起来。

4、Great Expectations

《远大前程》，2012年

作者：Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯

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.

《远大前程》或许是最地道的英国小说。成年读者重温狄更斯经典，就会发现其智慧与精彩、影响与真理。《远大前程》有狄更斯经典的所有元素，讨人欢喜却不完美的角色、主要故事情节能牵住时局、副线情节串起道德与文化，是部情节精彩的爱情故事作品。

5、Jane Eyre

《简·爱》，2014年

作者：Charlotte Brontë 夏洛蒂·勃朗特

Brontë's revolutionary 1847 Gothic romance about a young woman seeking a richer and more passionate life on her own still resonates with modern readers. Brontë's novel features the orphan Jane Eyre's search for an identity, her powerful attraction to her master, Mr Rochester, and an intimate description of her complex moral choices and sometimes raw emotional states.

我看的第一本英文原版小说是哈代的《苔丝》，我初三的语文老师送给我的毕业礼物。中考结束后我在家闲着没事就开始看这本书，就是这本书，带我进了英文原版小说的坑（带得好哈哈哈）

这本小说讲的贫穷的女主角到一个远房亲戚家做女佣，却不幸被那家人的少爷诱奸了。苔丝并不愿意就此屈服于富家少爷，于是去到另一个地方开始新生活。后来她遇到了牧师克莱尔，并和他相恋。

苔丝一直没有把她的秘密告诉克莱尔，直到新婚之夜。没想到克莱尔没法接受，离开了苔丝。后来苔丝又发生了很多事情，不得已回到诱奸她的人的身边。

离开苔丝的克莱尔终于在受尽苦难后想明白，他爱的是苔丝这个人，而不是什么贞洁，于是他回去找到苔丝，表示愿意给苔丝二次机会。这时候的苔丝深觉自己的人生完完全全被诱奸她的人毁掉了，冲动之下把那个少爷给杀了，和克莱尔一起逃走。

故事的最后，苔丝被抓获，因为故意杀人，被绞刑了。

故事很简单，情节不复杂，词汇也不太多，非常适合初读英文原版小说的人阅读。后来，每次遇到有想要试着读英文原版小说的人，我都会推荐这本小说。

除此之外，《one day》也非常好看，还有《The Painted Veil》也是我非常喜欢的英文原版小说。

个人觉得，如果是一开始看英文原版小说，而且是在词汇量不是特别足的情况下，最好选择故事情节比较强，故事比较短的小说来读，容易读下去。我见过第一次读英文原版小说就读《指环王》的，没有半个钟头就放弃了。

‍‍大家都知道读原版学英语的好处超多，只要你读完了一本原版，英语都会得到巨大的提高，就好像得到了《葵花宝典》，可是看了一两页没有兴趣就放弃了。那么究竟哪些原版书适合你来读呢？什么类型的值得推荐呢？

1悬疑类

最近超级火的《白夜追凶》和《无证之罪》你在坚持追剧么？我可是每周拿着小板凳准时蹲点啊。如果你和我是一类的朋友，推荐你看《the Girl on the Train》

The NO.1 New York Times Bestseller, 《纽约时报》排名第一的畅销书。故事讲述一位离婚的伦敦女人，她的生活只剩下酗酒和乘坐地铁来往消磨人生。在地铁上，她眺望远方，她发现每天看到一对夫妻，有一天她发现女主人不见了，于是她怀疑这位妻子被人杀害了，于是开始了秘密的调查。

这部小说充满了悬疑气氛，让你爱不释手，并且词汇也很简单，中学水平即可读懂全文。句型变化也简洁，读起来毫无压力。

2言情类

如果你是一位对爱情充满幻想的小女生，沉溺在爱的河水中不能自拔，可以看《暮光之城》。情节想必大家都很清楚，讲述了高中生贝拉和吸血鬼爱德华的故事。小说分为四部，让你的英语更上好几个台阶哟。不用担心，高中词汇基本让你阅读无太大障碍。

3正能量类

如果你正在经历低谷，想要获得向上的力量，推荐你《Option B》，书的作者是Facebook首席营运官，几年前的意外，让她失去了挚爱的丈夫，丈夫的猝死使得她陷入了巨大的空虚。然而当她再次站起来也一定比别人更坚强。这本书便是再次出发的她献给世人的礼物，也是自己站起来的证明。若是你坚强，全世界人都为你打call。

4非小说

若是你不喜欢小说，可以读《Succeed: how we can reach our goals》读完了这本书你可以知道如何设置目标，怎样不拖延，以及如何自我成长等等积极的内容，并且你会变成一个更好的自己。‍‍

1. “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’ConnorFew short stories have stuck with us as much as this one, which is probably O'Connor's most famous work — and with good reason. The Misfit is one of the most alarming serial killers we've ever met, all the more so for his politeness, and the story’s moral is so striking and terrifying that — whether you subscribe to the religious undertones or not — a reader is likely to finish and begin to reexamine their entire existence. Or at least we did, the first time we read it.《好人难寻》这篇小说是奥康纳最为著名的作品，很少有其他短篇小说能像这篇一样给我们带来震撼。无论你是否能明了宗教般的潜在含义，看完这篇小说读者都会开始或是结束对存在的检视。2. “The School,” Donald BarthelmeThis story is very short, but pretty much perfect in every way. Though Barthelme is known for his playful, post modern style, we admire him for his ability to shape a world so clearly from so few words, chosen expertly. Barthelme never over explains, never uses one syllable too many, but effortlessly leads the reader right where he wants her to be. It's funny, it's absurdist, it's sad, it's enormous even in its smallness. It may be this writer’s favorite story of all time. You should read it.这篇小说很短，但是堪称完美。巴塞尔姆的优秀就在于他能用精选的极少几个文字就为我们叙述了一个世界。他很少过多地解释，就把读者带到了他想要你去地方。3. “In The Penal Colony,” Franz KafkaKafka called this one his“dirty story,”and thought it imperfect, but it's one of our favorites of his (though we also recommend “The Hunger Artist”and“A Country Doctor”). It's so obviously a story about writing, in some ultimate way — a machine punishes its victims by writing on them over and over until their bodies give out — but its as if, while the body is the source of every problem in the tale, every weakness, it is also the only place where true knowledge can be translated.卡夫卡称自己的这篇小说是一个“很脏的故事”，认为并不完美，但是这个短篇确实我们的最爱之一。在小说中，我们可以体会到，身体是一切问题和弱点的根源，但身体也是唯一能转化真知的地方。4. “Signs and Symbols,”Vladimir NabokovAnother short one, we revere this story for its ability to turn every tiny detail into a portentous disaster, not to mention the fact that it's penned in Nabokov's effortlessly gorgeous, silvery prose. An old Jewish couple goes to visit their son in the mental hospital, only to be turned away because he has attempted to kill himself. And that's it, really. They go home and look though a photo album, eat some jam. The phonerings. But the whole thing is, perhaps, both a comment on the nature of insanity and the nature of the short story itself, with all its rules and strangeness and banality. And all its symbols, of course. 我们喜欢这篇小说的原因就在于，这个故事有能力把每个细微的细节瞬间变为一场灾难，而Nabokov在写这篇小说用的是轻松华丽水银泻地般的散文风格。5. “Gooseberries,” Anton ChekhovChekhov's stories are indisputably among the greats, and this one, written rather late, is one of our favorites. Chekhov probes at both the frailty and the worth of humanity, not to mention the natureof life, both for the fortunate and the unfortunate. But like most of Chekhov's stories, there's no clear moral, there's no obvious takeaway. Some men sit around and discuss their thoughts, and we listen, mulling over the subtleties for ourselves.契科夫的小说无疑是最伟大的作品之一，而这篇是我们的最爱。这篇小说像他的其他小说一样，没有清晰的道德标准，我们只是静静地看着几个人围坐着，讨论他们的思想。6. “Sea Oak,” George Saunders“Sea Oak” is Saunders's favorite of his own stories, we've heard, so because we find it so hard to choose among them, we've included it here on his own recommendation. Absurdist and satirical, and including at least one zombie shouting at her housemates to get laid, it's a weird one. But it's also concerned with placelessness, with family, with poverty, and like all of Saunders's stories, has a good, thumping heart under all that darkness and fun-poking.这部小说是桑德斯最为喜爱的一步短篇，这也是我们听说的。因为我们很难做出选择，因此就把他自己的推介放在了这里。这部小说充满了荒诞和讽刺，但是也关心家庭和贫穷等问题。像他的其他小说一样，在黑暗和取笑中，也暗含着美好和快乐。7. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” Ursula K. LeGuinLeGuin's parabolic tale, which won the Hugo Award for best short story in 1974, is a weird, spacious story about a city that seems to be a utopia — except for its one flaw, the single child that must always be kept in darkness and wretched misery so that the others may all live happily. Most of the citizens eventually accept this, but some do not, and silently leave the city, vanishing into the world around. Strange but pointed, Le Guin is a master of her genre.勒古这部寓言般的短篇小说获得过1974年的“雨果奖”，是关于一个类似乌托邦的城市的荒诞又宏大的故事。8. “The Veldt,” Ray BradburyThis tale, from one of the greatest science fiction writers in history, is deliciously wicked. Though it was written in 1950, this kind of story — of children driven mad by want, of technology turning on its masters — will never get old. Until technology actually turns on us, that is. Then we probably won't want to hear about it.布莱伯利作为历史上最富盛名的科幻小说家，这篇小说也是通过精心编写的。9. “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” Alice MunroThe undisputed queen of the short story, Alice Munro’s work is stark and often heartbreakingly raw, and this story of memory loss and the aching tenderness of human interaction is no different. Fun fact: this story was adapted into the film “Away from Her”, starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent.门罗是毫无争议的短篇小说女王，她的作品有一种朴实风格，常常带着心跳般的粗犷，这篇关于丧失记忆以及人类互动中的痛苦和柔弱的小说也不例外。10. “The Nose,” Nikolai GogolGogol might be the oldest writer on this list, but he’s also one of the weirdest — in a good way. Nabokov once wrote, “In Gogol…the absurd central character belongs to the absurd world around him but, pathetically and tragically, attempts to struggle out of it into the world of humans — and dies in despair.” What else can an absurd noseless man do, after all?果戈里应该是这个书单上最久远的作家了，但是他也是最荒诞的小说家之一。纳博科夫曾近这样写道：“在果戈里的作品中，荒诞的人物属于他周围荒诞的世界，但是却可怜兮兮且悲惨地要逃离他的世界，最终死于绝望”。

适合高中生看的英文小说有很多，你可以去看一看外国那些名著，比如说巴黎圣母院。红与黑，还有格列佛游记海底两万里。这些都是非常适合高中生看的英文小说，你可以买一本双语版的过来看，这样对自己的英语成绩有很大的提升

鲁滨逊漂流记是很适合高中生看的英语小说，因为这个小说的中文版，我们已经看过了，对于它的情节，我们也有一定的了解，所以再看英文版的鲁滨逊漂流记时，我们能够加深对于英语语句的理解有印象，而且还非常的有趣味，能够帮助我们英语写作。