By Shadow

Books and Novels

By Shadow

Books and Novels

By Shadow

Books and Novels

By Shadow

By Shadow

Books and Novels

By Shadow

Books and Novels

By Shadow

Books and Novels

By Shadow

Books and Novels

By Shadow

 

第二篇：英语小说阅读入门

《金银岛》简介

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island.

Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, it is an adventure tale

known for its atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality—as seen in Long John Silver—unusual for

children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatised of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perception of pirates is vast, including treasure maps with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen with parrots on their shoulders.

《小妇人》简介

Little Women is a novel published in 1868 and written by American author Louisa May Alcott. The story concerns the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. It was based on Alcott's own experiences as a child in Concord, Massachusetts with her three sisters, Anna, May, and Elizabeth.

Little Women is the story of The Marches, a family used to hard toil and suffering. Although Father March is away with the Union armies, the sisters Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth keep in high spirits with their mother, affectionately named Marmee. Their friendly gift of a Christmas holiday breakfast to a neighbouring family is an act of generosity rewarded with wealthy Mr. Laurence's gift of a surprise Christmas feast. However, despite their efforts to be good, the girls show faults: the pretty Meg becomes discontented with the children she teaches; boyish Jo loses her temper regularly; while the

golden-haired schoolgirl Amy is inclined towards affectation. However, Beth, who keeps the house is always kind and gentle. After certain happy times winning over the Laurences, dark times arrive as Marmee finds out about her husband's illness. Worse is to come as Beth contracts scarlet fever in her Samaritan efforts for a sick neighbour and becomes more or less an invalid. The novel tells of their progress into young womanhood with the additional strains of romance, Beth's terminal illness, the pressures of marriage and the outside world. This is the story of their growing maturity and wisdom and the search for the contentedness of family life. It was written in 1867 and is a fictionalised biography of Alcott and her sisters. It has become a much loved classic tale and, while some of its issues seem outdated, many of the trials of the sisters are all too relevant today

《大卫科波菲尔》简介

David Copperfield is well known as one representative work by Charles Dickens. The greatest novelist in the Victorian period depicted a broad picture of the society of his times by telling the uncommon life of his boy hero, David Copperfield. In addition, David Copperfield was also Dickens’ own favorite. It is written in the first person and is the most autobiographical of all his books. In writing, Dickens threw into this novel deep feelings and much of his own experience in his younger days. By David’s history and experience, Dickens in some way retrospected and drew a conclusion to his life and expressed his life attitude and moral ideal. Furthermore his novel also disclosed the faulty mask of capitalist society and remarkably reflected the negative damage to the marriage, family and society caused by money. It is safe to say that David Copperfield is one of the most excellent characters among all Dickens created. The thesis undertakes to have a detailed study of the characteristics of David Copperfield through the analysis of the influence of the people around him and make a preliminary explanation to it. The work will be done along the development of David Copperfield, from his childhood

to his adulthood. The analysis of the characteristics of David Copperfield will provide us a chance to see the features of the capitalist society and give us some inspiration about the life.

《格列佛游记》简介Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift wrote it in Ireland.The first part of it appeared in October 1726 and by November the book was in everybody's hand.

1.The story of the book is known to us all. In the first part Gulliver describes his shipwreck in Lilliput where the tallest peopole were six inches high. The emperor believed himself to be the delight and terror of the universe, but it appeared quite absurd to Gulliver who was twelve times as tall as he. In his account of the two parties in the country, distinguished by the use of high and low heels, Swift satirixes the Tories and the Whigs in England, Religious disputes were laughed at in an account of a problem which divided the Lilliputians:"Should eggs be broken at the big end or the little end?" The follows an ironical comment:"This, however, is thought to be a merer strain upon the text, for the words are thses, that all true believers shall break their eggs at the convenient end. And which is the convenient end seems, in my humble opinion, to be left to every man's conscience, or at least in the power of the Chief Magistrate to dtermine." This part is full of references to current politics.

2.In the second part, the voyage to Brobdingnag is described. Gulliver now found himself a dwarf among men sixty feet in height. The King, who

regarded Eruope as if it were an anthill, said,"I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."And Gulliver, after living among such a great race, could not but feel tempted to laugh at the strutting and bowing of English lords and ladies as much as the King did at him.

3.The third part is a satire on philosophers and projuctors, who were given to

dwelling in the air, like the inhabitants of the flying Island. In the Island of sorcerors, Gulliver was able to call up famous men of ancient times and question them. Then he found the world to have been misled by prostitute wriers into ascribing the greatest exploits in war to cowards, the wisest counsels to fools, and sincerity to flatterers. He saw, too, by looking at an lod yeoman, how the race had greatly deteriorated through vice and corruption.

4.In the last part, Gulliver's satire is of the bitterest. Gulliver was now in a country where horses werer possessed of reason, and were the governing class, while the Yahoos,though in the shape of men, were brute beasts with such vices as stealing and lying. In endeavouring to persuade the horses that he was not a Yahoo, gulliver was made to show how little a man was

removed from the brute. Gulliver's account of the warfare among the English lords, given with no little pride, caused only disgust from the horses. He praised the life and virtues of the horses while he was disgusted with the Yahoos, whose relations reminded him of those existing in english society to such a degree that he shuddered at the prospect of returning to England.So, when he returned home, his family filled him with such disgust that he swooned when his wife kissed him.

5.Swift hated all kinds of oppression-political, economical and religious. But he cherished a great love for the people,

《呼啸山庄》

One old Mr in a rain of night came to whistling Villa wants to stay a late night he do has a strange of dream, dreamed of branches playing in window tooth broke glass, wanted to broken outside of branches, can finger is touch to a double cold of small hand, a ghost like Weeps sound begging for he placed she came in smell sound came, let Li out, he own head-bashing down in

bed Shang, cry with called up: ", to 's! Oh, come on, one more time! Oh, my dearest! Katherine

The old man, to the housekeeper asked about the matter, housekeeper said in Wuthering Heights things happen.

Master Xiao and his wife picked up from the streets to a Gypsy abandoned, his adopted son, this is the Greek to this was the son of Henry Dresser of bullying and abuse will be offered to Dresser's sister kis madly in love with Li. They have gone through a lot the last was not together

《鲁滨逊漂游记》

Of the Robinson Crusoe (Robinson Crusoe) old translation of the Robinson Crusoe drifting in mind, and a well-known memoir-adventure novels of realism, is the 18th century United Kingdom writer Daniel Defoe written inspired by experience of a Scottish sailor in distress at sea. Defoe in the book, have created a new people to face up to natural challenges – Lu Bin Sun·kelusuo. His disdain for conservative, heart development, several well-off families aside, out to make their fortunes. Shipwrecked after living on a desert island, he used his head and hands, the construction of shelter, grow food, domesticated livestock, manufacturing equipment, sewing clothes, into a desert island "paradise on Earth". His overseas adventures for many years, many painful, got considerable wealth, returned to the United Kingdom, completed the heroes of an era of careers. To this end, Defoe beat "the United Kingdom and the father of the English novel in Europe" of the title. This companion volume is the trapped, is with Defoe. The Robinson Crusoe Defoe has brought great success and has helped him pay off part of the debt. Since then, he has also written one after another of the moer·fulandesi the Colonel Jack Robinson and two of her novels, but creditors are always followed him though. In the last years of his life, Defoe, infirmity, unaccompanied, lenders keep the door, the children also told him forget it. On April 26, 1731, Daniel · Defoe died in grief, died at the age of 71.

The author in the full quote is: afraid of terrible 10,000 times times than the risk itself.