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Wuthering Heights

《呼啸山庄》，1847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”。

The Pigeon Tunnel 鸽子通道

作者：John le Carré 约翰·勒·卡雷

The master of espionage fiction offers a memoir of sorts, a series of meticulously crafted, witty and enthralling "stories from my life". He describes the childhood deceptions and losses that launched him, his schooling in Switzerland, where he made his first "infant steps for British Intelligence, delivering I knew not what to I knew not whom."

间谍小说大师推出自传体作品，细腻打造“我的生活中”引人入胜的趣事。他描述了童年遭遇的欺骗和随之而来的失落感，讲述了在瑞士的学生时光，正是在那里，他“迈出了成为英国情报人员的第一小步，把我不了解的信息传递给我不认识的人”。

Jane Eyre

《简·爱》，1847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 deion of her complex moral choices and sometimes raw emotional states.

勃朗特这部哥特式爱情传奇出版于1847年，内容革新，讲述了一个年轻女性追寻更为充实激情的生活，至今仍能引起现代读者的共鸣。 勃朗特小说的主人翁简·爱是个孤儿，追寻着自我的身份，主人罗切斯特先生深深吸引着她；小说真切描述了简·爱复杂的道德抉择及其有时显得有些原始的情感状态。

James Gleick, Time Travel

詹姆斯·格莱克《时光旅行》

Science writer Gleick takes a panoramic approach to the fourth dimension, a subject that fascinated the fin de siècle scientific world. He begins with HG Wells drafting his landmark 1895 book The Time Machine. He includes Edith Nesbit, a Wells contemporary, who invented a time-travel subgenre in her 1906 novel The Story of the Amulet.

科学作家格莱克对第四维空间进行了全景式的描绘。在19世纪末的科学世界，四维空间是一个热门话题。故事始于1895年HG·威尔斯起草里程碑式巨著《时间机器》，结束于1906年威尔士当代作家伊迪斯·内斯比特在小说《护身符的故事》中创造出时光旅行的亚主题。

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。

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。

Vampire in Love 恋爱中的吸血鬼

作者： Enrique Vila-Matas 安立奎·维拉－马塔斯

Barcelona-born Vila-Matas has published more than 20 novels, and won the 2014 Prix Formentor. This selection of 19 stories showcases his dark yet whimsical wit and genre-blending tendencies. In the title story, a desperate man with two sharp vampire's teeth has a sinful eye for an altar boy. The narrator calls him "Saint Nosferatu". "Like all those in love", Vila-Matas writes, "he is both vampire and martyr".

出生于巴塞罗那的维拉－马塔斯已经出版了20多本小说，并于2014年获得了福明托文学奖。本书精选的19个故事展现了他黑暗而古怪的智慧和喜欢把多种体裁混杂到一起的写作倾向。在该书同名故事中，一个绝望的男人长着两颗吸血鬼尖牙，他总是用邪恶的眼光看着助祭男孩，叙述者称其为“圣·诺斯菲拉图”。维拉－马塔斯写道：“就像所有恋爱中的人一样，他既是一个吸血鬼，又是一位牺牲者。”

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。

Frankenstein

《弗兰肯斯坦》，1818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。

David Copperfield

《大卫·科波菲尔》，1850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。

Bleak House

《荒凉之屋》，1853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。

Great Expectations

《远大前程》，1861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。

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。

Lincoln in the Bardo 林肯在中阴

作者：George Saunders 乔治•桑德斯

The Girl from the Metropol Hotel

来自首都酒店的女孩

作者：Ludmilla Petrushevskaya 

柳德米拉•彼得鲁舍夫斯卡娅

 A Separation 一场分离

作者：Katie Kitamura

High Noon 正午

作者：Glenn Frankel 格伦•弗伦克尔

Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize winner, describes the consequences of the blacklist on the film industry, including its effect on the film’s writer. Frankel makes the climate of suspicion and fear in Hollywood palpable.

弗兰科曾是普利策奖获得者，他在本书中讲述了美国在电影产业中建立黑名单的后果，以及为电影剧作家带来的影响，向读者揭露了一个不为人知的好莱坞。

The Book Thieves 偷书贼

作者：Anders Rydell 安德斯•李戴尔

Ghachar Ghochar 心结

作者：Vivek Shanbhag 维韦克•尚贝格

The Alps 阿尔卑斯山

作者：Stephen O'Shea 斯蒂芬•奥谢

Breezy and informative, it a reminder of the ever-shifting attitudes toward mountains that have inspired poets and writers for centuries.

作为一本浅显易懂且信息量丰厚的游记，它对那些令无数诗人作家向往了几个世纪的阿尔卑斯山峰有着形形色色的独到见解。

A Piece of the World 世界一隅

Christina Baker Kline 克里斯蒂娜•贝克•克兰

"Sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a prison, that house on the hill has always been my home," Baker writes in this beautifully rendered portrait of a woman's interior life.

作者描述了一个美丽女人的内心生活，她在书中写道：“那座房子有时是避难所，有时是监狱，归根到底，那座山上的房子始终是我的家。”

The Weight of Him 他的重量

作者：Ethel Rohan 埃塞尔•罗翰

In heart-rending passages, Rohan captures the ways in which parents blame each other and themselves for the loss of a child, and the courage it takes to change.

在一段心碎悲痛的故事中，Rohan描绘了失去孩子后父母不断相互指责和自责的形象，以及改变生活需要的勇气。

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