- Walden; Or, Life in the Woods 瓦尔登湖
by Henry David Thoreau – A remarkable
account of a man seeking a more simple life by living in harmony
with nature.
- On the Origin of
Species 物种起源 by Charles
Darwin – The book that revolutionized the natural sciences and
every literary, philosophical and religious thinker who
followed.
- The Iliad 伊利亚特 by Homer – The Iliad is one of the two
great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the
greatest war stories of all time.
- Selected Poems of Emily
Dickinson 狄金森诗选 – The
perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of
America’s first poets.
- The Art of War 孙子兵法
by Sunzi – A book which should be
used to gain advantage of opponents in the boardroom and
battlefield alike.
- The Prince 君主论
by Niccolo Machiavelli – Its
essential contribution to modern political thought lies in
Machiavelli’s assertion of the then revolutionary idea that
theological and moral imperatives have no place in the political
arena.
- Jane Eyre 简.爱
by Charlotte Bronte – A superb
evocation of a time and place;Â a complex, detailed character
study; a believable and compelling plot; and, more than anything
else, a magnificent love story.
- A Tales of Two
Cities 双城记 by Charles Dickens – This story of the French
Revolution brings to life a time of terror and treason, and a
starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt
and decadent regime.
- The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer 汤姆索亚历险记 by Mark
Twain – Perhaps the best-loved nineteenth-century American novel,
Mark Twainâ ™s tale of boyhood adventure overflows with comedy,
warmth, and slapstick energy.
- The Count of Monte
Cristo 基督山伯爵 by Alexandre
Dumas – One of the greatest tales of revenge of all
time.
- War and Peace 战争与和平 by Leo Tolstoy – A s Napoleonâ ™s army invades,
Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgroundsâ
”peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiersâ ”as they struggle
with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their
culture.
- Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson 爱默生散文集 – The writings
featured here show Emerson as a protester against social
conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights of women
and slaves, and a poet of great sensitivity.
- Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄
by Emily Bronte – One of literatureâ
™s most disturbing explorations into the dark side of romantic
passion. Heathcliff and Cathy believe theyâ ™re destined to love
each other forever, but when cruelty and snobbery separate them,
their untamed emotions literally consume them.
- The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare 莎士比亚全集–
Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the
English language and the world’s preeminent dramatist.
- Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of
Socrates by Plato – The
trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and
corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of
Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues,
Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates’
manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility.
- Symposium 座谈会
by Plato – Plato explores, through a
series of speeches, the nature and origins of love and
passion.
- The Divine Comedy 神曲
by Dante – A moving human drama, an
unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of
Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious
realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal
salvation.
- Paradise Lost 失乐园
by John Milton – Considered to be the
greatest epic poem in English literature. Its roots lie in the
Genesis account of the world’s creation and Adam and Eve’s
expulsion from Eden.
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw – A perceptive comedy of
wit and wisdom about the unique relationship between a spunky
cockney flower-girl and her irascible speech professor.
- Leaves of
Grass 草叶 by Walt Whitman – “The most extraordinary piece
of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.” â ” Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
- The Works of Aristotle
亚里士多德作品 – Aristotle’s views on the
physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their
influence extended well into the Renaissance.
- The Canterbury Tales
坎特伯雷故事集 by Geoffrey Chaucer – The
tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained
inside a frame tale and told by a collection of
pilgrims on a pilgrimage from London Borough of Sout
Canterbury.
- The Devil’s Dictionary
魔鬼词典 by Ambrose Bierce – Bierce was
an iconoclastic literary genius and this compilation of definitions
(written for a satirical magazine during the 1880s) is a true
American classic. Some may find Bierce sexist, nationalist and
racist, but most readers will enjoy his malevolent scepticism and
underlying rage against hypocrisy.
- 20,000 Leagues Under the
Sea 海底两万里 by Jules Verne –
A group of men set sail to solve the mystery of a sea monster in
this amazing underwater adventure.
- Moby Dick 白鲸
by Herman Melville – A masterpiece of
storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and
epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great
white whale that crippled him.
- Heart of Darkness 心的黑暗
by Joseph Conrad – Exploring the
workings of consciousness as well as the grim realities of
imperialism, Heart of Darkness tells of Marlow, a seaman
and wanderer, who journeys into the heart of the African continent
to discover how the enigmatic Kurtz has gained power over the local
people.
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde 化身博士和海德先生 by Robert
Louis Stevenson – This dark psychological fantasy is also a product
of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution,
criminality, and secret lives.
- Voltaire’s Philosophical
Dictionary 伏尔泰的哲学词典– A
series of short, radical essays – alphabetically arranged – that
form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious
conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French
thought.
- Candide 老实人
by Voltaire – In the story of the
trials and travails of the youthful Candide, his mentor Dr.
Pangloss, and a host of other characters, Voltaire mercilessly
satirizes and exposes romance, science, philosophy, religion and
government.
- The Hunchback of Notre
Dame 巴黎圣母院 by Victor Hugo – An epic tale of beauty and
sadness, The Hunchback of Notre Dame portrays the
sufferings of humanity with compassion and power.
- Les Miserables 孤星泪
by Victor Hugo – In this story of the
trials of the peasant Jean Valjean–a man unjustly imprisoned,
baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently
realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert–Hugo
achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work
of art to transcend its genre.
- Father Goriot
by Honore de Balzac – A masterful
study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a
compulsion, this novel marks Balzac’s “real entrée” into La
Comédie Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short
stories meant to depict “the whole pell-mell of
civilization.”
- The Atheist’s Mass
无神论者的弥撒 by Honore de Balzac –
Bianchon, who was with Desplein all through his last illness, dares
not affirm to this day that the great surgeon died an
atheist.
- Crime and Punishment
罪与罚 by Fyodor Dostoevsky –
Dostoyevsky’s first masterpiece, the novel is a psychological
analysis of the poor student Raskolnikov, whose theory that
humanitarian ends justify evil means leads him to murder a St.
Petersburg pawnbroker.
- Notes From the
Underground by Fyodor
Dostoevsky – Violating literary conventions in ways never before
attempted, this classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian
official’s breakaway from society and descent
“underground”.
- Pride and Prejudice
傲慢与偏见 by Jane Austen – The story of
fiercely independent Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters who must
marry rich, as she confounds the arrogant, wealthy Mr.
Darcy.
- Sense and Sensibility
理智与情感 by Jane Austen – A wonderfully
entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two
starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne
Dashwood.
- The Tao Te Ching 道德经
by Laozi – Reportedly written by a
sage named Lao Tzu over 2,500 years ago, the Tao Te Ching is one of
the most succinct–and yet among the most profound–spiritual texts
ever written.
- Frankenstein 怪人
by Mary Shelley – A scientist, Victor
Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in
the likeness of man, but larger than average and more
powerful
- The Complete Works
of P.B. Shelley 雪莱全集 – One of the
major English Romantic poets and is widely considered
to be among the finest lyric poets in the English
language.
- Robinson Crusoe 鲁滨逊漂流记
by Daniel Defoe – The old story still
stands up as one of the best adventure yarns for children who are
interested in tales of shipwreck.
- Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe – Defoeâ ™s
excellence it is, to make me forget my specific class, character,
and circumstances, and to raise me while I read him, into the
universal man.
- Gulliver’s Travels
格列佛游记 by Jonathan Swift – Shipwrecked
castaway Lemuel Gulliver’s encounters with the petty, diminutive
Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted
scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish
Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human
behavior.
- The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn 哈克历险记 by Mark Twain –
Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an
adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck’s dad
returns and kidnaps him, he must escape down the Mississippi river
with runaway slave, Jim.
- Leviathan 利维坦
by Thomas Hobbes – In 1651, Hobbes
published his work about the relationship between the government
and the individual. More than four centuries old, this brilliant
yet ruthless book analyzes not only the bases of government but
also physical nature and the roles of man.
- Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Nietzsche – In the book
the philosopher attempts to systematically sum up his philosophy
through a collection of 296 aphorisms grouped into nine different
chapters based on their common theme.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche – This book
addresses the problem of how to live a fulfilling life in a world
without meaning, in the aftermath of “the death of God.” His
solution lies in the idea of eternal recurrence, which he calls
“the highest formula of affirmation that can ever be
attained.”
- The Lifted Veil
by George Eliot – A dark fantasy
drawing on contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of
the brain, mesmerism, phrenology, and experiments in revification,
it is Eliot’s anatomy of her own moral philosophy.
- Sons and Lovers 儿子与情人
by DH Lawrence – The first modern
portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became
easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex.
- Women in Love
by DH Lawrence – Women in Love
examines the ill effects of industrialization on the human psyche,
resolving that individual and collective rebirth is possible only
through human intensity and passion.
- White
Fang 白方 by Jack London – The story of a wolf-dog who
endures great cruelty before he comes to know human
kindness.
- Call of the Wild 野生的呼唤
by Jack London – This gripping story
follows the adventures of the loyal dog Buck, who is stolen from
his comfortable family home and forced into the harsh life of an
Alaskan sled dog.
- The Raven 乌鸦
by Edgar Allan Poe – Lamenting the
loss of a gentle but passionate woman, the narrator drinks, yet
somberly dwells on her name.
- The Fall of the House of
Usher by Edgar Allan Poe –
The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death,
and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate
unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan
Poe.
- Dracula by Bram Stoker – A true masterwork of
storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation,
language, and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever
written.
- Lair of the White Worm
白蠕虫的巢穴 by Bram Stoker – Set in
central England, the work is brimming with adventure and
excitement.
- Discourse 话语
by Descartes – One of the few works
of philosophy that absolutely every educated person needs to read
at least once.
- The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes 福尔摩斯历险记 by Arthur
Conan Doyle – Sir Arthur Conan Doyleâ ™s Sherlock Holmes has been
one of the most beloved fictional characters ever
created.
- David Copperfield
大卫科波菲尔 by Charles Dickens – The story
of a young manâ ™s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and
impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a
successful novelist.
- Great Expectations
远大前程 by Charles Dickens – Dickens’
haunting late novel depicts Pip’s education and development through
adversity as he discovers thetrue nature of his ‘great
expectations’.
- Aesop’s Fables 伊索寓言
– Full of humor, insight, and wit,
the tales in Aesopâ ™s Fables champion the value of hard work and
perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old
wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and
children alike.
- Beowulf 武夫
by Anonymous – Warriors must back up
their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and
fights are always to the death.
- Autobiography
of Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林自传 – Few
men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he
excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a
wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the
most successful diplomat in American history.
- Common Sense 铿锵
by Thomas Paine – Thomas Paine’s
clear and concise writings make him one of the greatest political
authors of his time.
- The Ambassadors 大使
by Henry James – The most exquisite
refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American
innocence with European experience.
- Daisy Miller
by Henry James – A novel that plays
upon the contrast between American and European society that is
common to James’s work.
- The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James – A tale of
psychological horror as the governess struggles-and ultimately
fails-to protect the children from the “corruption” that only she
can conceive of…but cannot name.
- Hero and Leander
英雄和利安德 by Christopher Marlowe – A
Greek myth in which Hero is a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a
tower in Sestos.
- Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen – The story of its
title character, Hedda, a self-centered manipulative woman who has
grown tired of her marriage. To escape her boredom she begins to
meddle in the lives of others with truly tragic
results.
- The Master Builder
建筑大师 by Henrik Ibsen – The play
explores the needs of the artist in relation to those of society
and the limits of artistic creativity.
- Don Quixote 堂吉诃德
by Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote,
errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful
squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and
haunt readers’ imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred
years.
- Dubliners 都柏林人
by James Joyce – In “Dubliners,”
Joyce’s first attempt to register in language and fictive form the
protean complexities of the ‘reality of experience, ‘ he learns the
paradoxical lesson that only through the most rigorous economy,
only by concentrating on the minutest of particulars, can he have
any hope of engaging with the immensity of the world.
- Ulysses 尤利西斯
by James Joyce – To this day it
remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author
takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It
is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way)
suspenseful.
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man by James Joyce – The
novel’s rich, symbolic language and brilliant use of
stream-of-consciousness foreshadowed Joyce’s later
work.
- Jude the
Obscure 无名的裘德 by Thomas Hardy – Jude Fawley, a poor stone
carver with aspirations toward an academic career, is thwarted at
every turn and is finally forced to give up his dreams of a
university education.
- Far From the Madding of the
Crowd 远离人群的与世无争 by Thomas
Hardy – A young man falls victim to his own obsession with an
amorous farm girl in this classic novel of fate and unrequited
love.
- Twice Told Tales
两次向传说 by Nathaniel
Hawthorne – Allegorical, supernatural and symbolic themes permeate
these strange tales.
- The Scarlet Letter 红字
by Nathaniel Hawthorne – A timeless
tale of passion and revenge, guilt and grace, sin and redemption.
It cemented Nathaniel Hawthorne’s reputation as America’s greatest
writer of fiction.
- The Picture of Dorian
Gray 道林格雷的画像 by Oscar
Wilde – After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man’s
portrait, his subject’s frivolous wish that the picture change and
he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray’s picture grows aged and
corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and
innocent.
- Lady Windermere’s
Fan 温德米尔夫人的扇子 by Oscar Wilde – Set in
London, the play’s action is put in motion by Lady Windermere’s
jealousy over her husband’s interest in Mrs. Erlynne, a beautiful
older woman with a mysterious past.
- The Importance of Being
Earnest 认真的重要 by Oscar
Wilde – Oscar Wildeâ ™s madcap farce about mistaken identities,
secret engagements, and loversâ ™ entanglements still delights
readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere
performance.
- Ivanhoe 艾凡赫 by Sir Walter Scott – The epitome of the
chivalric novel, Ivanhoe sweeps readers into Medieval England and
the lives of a memorable cast of characters.
- The Lady of the Lake
圣湖女人 by Sir Walter Scott – Widely
considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all
time.
- The Jungle 丛林
by Upton Sinclair – One of the
handful of books throughout all of history, perhaps, that have
encapsulated the crying voices of the oppressed.
- The Machine
by Upton Sinclair – Another classic
tale by Sinclair.
- The Last of the
Mohicans by James Fenimore
Cooper – The classic tale of Hawkeye-Natty Bumppo-the frontier
scout who turned his back on “civilization,” and his friendship
with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters through the
dangerous wilderness of Indian country in frontier
America.
- The Deerslayer 猎鹿人
by James Fenimore Cooper – This first
of the Leather-Stocking Tales takes us to Lake Otsego in the
beginning of the French and Indian Wars. Natty Bumppo, now called
Deerslayer, and the Mohican chief Chingachook fight against the
Iroquois and discover hidden identities.
- Little Women 小妇人
by Louisa May Alcott – In picturesque
nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg,
fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is
off to war.
- Madame Bovary 包法利夫人
by Gustave Flaubert – For this novel
of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert
invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern
style.
- Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert – The novel Salammbo
(published in 1862) interweaves historical and fictional
characters.
- Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass 一个黑奴的自述 – Born into a family of slaves, Frederick
Douglass educated himself through sheer determination. His
unconquered will to triumph over his circumstances makes his one of
Americaâ ™s best and most unlikely success stories.
- Siddhartha 悉达多
by Herman Hesse – A deceptively
simple, intense, and lyrical allegorical tale of a man in ancient
India striving for enlightenment at the time of Buddha. Siddhartha
is a man whose life journey runs in parallel and who may or may not
be another version of Buddha himself.
- This Side of Paradise
天堂的这一边 by F. Scott Fitzgerald –
Fitzgerald’s first novel uses numerous formal experiments to tell
the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years
following the First World War.
- The Time Machine 时间机器
by H.G. Wells – When a Victorian
scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is
initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by
beauty, contentment, and peace.
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
汤姆叔叔的小屋 by Harriet Beecher Stowe –
The moving abolitionist novel that fueled the fire of the human
rights debate in 1852 and melodramatically condemned the
institution of slavery through such powerfully realized characters
as Tom, Eliza, Topsy, Eva, and Simon Legree.
- Tom Jones 汤姆琼斯
by Henry Fielding – Tom Jones isn’t a
bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half
centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious
and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading.
- The Aeneid
挨涅阿斯记 by Virgil –
What made Virgil special was the artisanship behind his work (which
was political, but gracefully and passionately evoked the soul) and
the way in which he shaped his borrowed material to his–and
Augustus’s and Rome’s–purposes.
- The Education of Henry
Adams 亨利亚当斯的教育 – One of
the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority
complex.
- The Wealth of Nations
国富论 by Adam Smith – Smith’s enormous
authority resides, in the end, in the same property that we
discover in Marx: not in any ideology, but in an effort to see to
the bottom of things.
- The Poetical Works of William
Wordsworth 威廉华兹华斯诗学工程 – He
sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women, of
ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early poetry
represents this fresh approach to his art.
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