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1、英文名著梗概 英文名著梗概 War and Peace （斗争与和平） WAR AND PEACE succefully captured lifes promises, challenges, joys, triumphs, and loes in a way that no other novels has done before and after.In this novel with more characters than any other I can imagine; the main characters are Pierre Bezuhov, Prince Andrey Bo
2、lkonsky, and Natasha Rostov, who are all affected by the destabilization of the war Napoleon brought upon Ruia in the early nineteenth century.It is around them that the other characters revolve.Even though the sheer size of this novel of over a million words may discourage readers to pick it up, th
3、e consuming nature of the story keeps a reader glued to the book from the opening pages.The sheer power of this romantic and adventurous story made this claic story to survive as perhaps the best of all times. The eence of Power, which is what leads individuals to move nations is the ultimate questi
4、on of War and Peace.And this individuals or great men of history, are in reality the slave of history.That underlying fact can be found in other Ruian stories.UNION MOUJIK, TARAS BULBA, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT,MASTER AND MAN feature that concept.The war part of the story features remarkable military ca
5、mpaigns such as those by Napoleon and his Ruian counterpart, Emperor Aleksandr, as they employed their different strategies in the quest for victory on the lands of Ruia. War and Peace is entertaining as well as enlightening and is considered by many to be the master of all Ruian novels.Its overview
6、 of Ruian life and culture involving peasants and the aristocracy gives a true to life portrayal of humanity.You can find glimpses of other Great Ruian novels in this story.In short, this epic cannot be forgotten after you have read it. A Tale of Two Cities （双城记） The more Dickens I read, the more im
7、preed I become at his skill as a writer.No matter the form, be it short, long, or a monolith like some of his best works, Dickens excels at changing his style of characterization and plot to fit whatever mode he writes in.A Tale of Two Cities is one of his shorter novels, and he manages to make the
8、most of out of the allotted space.The compreion of the narrative sacrifices Dickenss accustomed character development for plot and overall effect, but what we get is still phenomenal. A Tale of Two Cities begins in 1775, with Mr.Lorry, a respectable London banker, meeting Lucie Manette in Paris, whe
9、re they recover Lucies father, a doctor, and mentally enfeebled by an unjust and prolonged imprisonment in the Bastille.This aemblage, on their journey back to England, meets Charles Darnay, an immigrant to England from France who makes frequent trips between London and Paris.Upon their return to En
10、gland, Darnay finds himself on trial for spying for France and in league with American revolutionaries.His attorney, Stryver, and Stryvers obviously intelligent, if morally corrupt and debauched, aistant, Sydney Carton, manage to get Darnay exonerated of the charges against him.Darnay, a self-exiled
11、 former French aristocrat, finds himself compelled to return to France in the wake of the French Revolution, drawing all those around him into a dangerous scene. Dickens portrays the French Revolution simplistically, but powerfully, as a case of downtrodden peasants exacting a harsh revenge against
12、an uncaring aristocratic, even feudal, system.The Defarges, a wine merchant and his wife, represent the interests of the lower claes, clouded by hatred after generations of misuse.Darnay, affiliated by birth with the French aristocracy, is torn between sympathy for his native country in its sufferin
13、g, and his desire to be free of his past.ance and plot, much like the works of Sir Walter Scott, wherein the characters themselves aert le agency, finding themselves forced to deal with the tide of epic events.Richard Maxwells introduction to this newest Penguin edition does a good job outlining the
14、 themes of doubling and literary influence that Dickens works with.One specific influence I discerned in reading A Tale that Maxwell doesnt metion is Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France, which if nothing else, gives the feeling that the rampant violence of the early revolution and
15、the later Reign of Terror has brought about an irreversible change in human nature.While Dickens remains cautiously optimistic throughout the novel that France can recover, the tone of the novel speaks to the regreion of humanity into a more feral, primal state, rather than advertise any real hope f
16、or its enlightened progre. Despite the supposed dichotomy between England and France in the novel, Dickens seems to suggest throughout that there are no real differences, due to the way that human nature is consistently portrayed.With England in between two revolutions, American and French, Lucies s
17、ensitivity early in the novel to hearing the echoing footsteps of unseen multitudes indicates a palpable fear that the idyllic or pastoral England he tries to portray is not exempt from the social discontent of America or France.In this light, stolid English characters like Mi Pro, Jerry Cruncher, a
18、nd Jarvis Lorry appear to almost overcompensate in their loyalty to British royalty.In a novel that deals with death, religion, mental illne, I could go on and on for a week, but I wont.One of those novels whose famous first and last lines are fixed in the minds of people whove never even read it, A
19、 Tale of Two Cities demands to be read and admired. Wuthering Heights （咆哮山庄） There is a thin line between love and hate, and once Heathcliff croes it, we see a grand, paionate and absorbingly interesting man turn into a fearsome thug.Thwarted in his love for his childhood soulmate, Catherine Earnsha
20、w, Heathcliff turns his devastation outward, becoming a hateful - and hated - person all acro the bleak moors that surround his Yorkshire village. Heathcliff courts and marries the sister of the man whom Catherine chose over Heathcliff, only to torture her emotionally as a way of getting even with h
21、er brother.Meanwhile, Catherine slowly wastes away pining for Heathcliff, for although she once rejected him, she eventually realizes that she has made an irredeemable error and can never be happy.Heathcliff sums up the tragedy of their lives in a single question near the end of the novel when he as
22、ks, Why did you betray your heart, Cathy? Sound depreing? Its not.Wuthering Heights is a grand and glorious novel that dramatically illustrates the power of love, for good and ill.But more importantly, it teaches us that the only path to happine is to be true to ones heart, rather than ones head.Had
23、 Catherine honored her bond with Heathcliff and refused to bow to the social mores of her day, not only would the two of them been much happier, but all of the many people whose lives they stumbled into would have been much better off. Another reviewer said that those of us who love this novel proba
24、bly have a strong identification with one of the characters, and for me that is quite true.Thats the reason for reading a claic like Wuthering Heights, because when it speaks to you in the clear and true way that Bronte does, you know that you are not alone, and that some things transcend time and p
25、lace. Think about it - a prim, Victorian preachers daughter living on the moors of England before there was electricity can reach acro 150 years of time and speak to the heart of a wired American in the 21st century.Pretty amazing. 英文名著梗概 英文名著 英文名著 英文名著选 举荐英文名著 必读英文名著 泛读课 英文名著 世界名著英文名 英文名著读后感 英文名著读后感 本文来源：网络收集与整理，如有侵权，请联系作者删除，谢谢！第10页 共10页第 10 页 共 10 页第 10 页 共 10 页第 10 页 共 10 页第 10 页 共 10 页第 10 页 共 10 页第 10 页 共 10 页第 10 页 共 10 页第 10 页 共 10 页第 10 页 共 10 页第 10 页 共 10 页