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1).The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》,马克吐温著
The story of a teenage misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave named Jim. Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a motley cast of characters. Underlying Twain’s good humor is a dark subcurrent of antebellum cruelty and injustice that makes the novel a frequently funny book with a serious message.
2).The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 《纯真年代》,伊迪斯·沃顿著
This Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, set in 19th century upper-class New York, is a tragic love story and a powerful homily about the perils of a perfect marriage. … 对完美婚姻的危险进行了充分有力的描述.
3).Moby Dick by Herman Melville 《莫比·迪克》或《白鲸》, 赫尔曼·麦尔维尔著
The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal (狂热的) pursuit of the white whale.
4).The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 《红字》,纳撒尼尔·霍桑著
A tale of adultery, guilt and social repression in 17th- century Puritan New England.
5).The Last of the Mohican by James Fennimore Copper 《最后一个莫希干人》,詹姆斯·费尼莫·库珀著
6). Little Women by Louisa Alcott 《小妇人》, 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特著
Set during the Civil War ,this novel follows the adventures of the four March sister-Meg, Beth, Amy, and most of all ,the tomboy Jo –as they experience the joys and disappointments ,tragedies and triumphs ,of growing up.
7).The Call of the Wild by Jack London 《野性的呼唤》,杰克·伦敦著
Kidnapped from his safe California home during the 19th-century gold rush, thrown into a life-and-death struggle in the Arctic wilderness, Buck learns many hard lessons as a sled dog .Finally, from his last owner; he learns the power of love and loyalty.
8).Uncle Tom’ Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》,哈里叶特·比彻·斯托著
An international bestseller that sold more than 300000 copies in 1852, the novel has been called “the most powerful and most enduring work of art ever written about American slavery.”
9).The Wings of the Dove by Henry James 《鸽翼》,亨利·詹姆斯著
Set in early 20th-century London, this is a classical example of Henry James’s morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad.
10).Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque by Edgar Allan Poe 《怪诞奇异故事集》,爱德加·爱伦·坡著
American poet, a master of the horror tale, Poe is credited with practically inventing the detective stories, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, which appeared in 1840,contained one of his most famous works, The Fall of the House Usher.
Nonfiction:
11).Walden by Henry David Thoreau 《瓦尔登湖》,亨利·大卫·梭罗著
12).Up from Slavery by Booker T· Washington 《超越奴役》 布克·T·华盛顿著
13).The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams 《亨利·亚当斯的教育》, 亨利·亚当斯著
Poetry:
14).Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 《草叶集》,沃尔特·惠特曼著
15).Poems by Emily Dickens 《诗选》, 艾米莉·迪金森著
16).The Songs of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 《海华沙之歌》,亨利·沃滋沃思·费郎罗著
