Unit2How reading changed my life 第一次课(2)

8) Jane Eyre A novel written by Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), one of the three Bronte sisters who wrote some of the most famous novels in all of British literature. Thornfied Hall is the name of the mansion of Mr. Rochester where Jane Eyre is employed as a governess. 9) A Tale of Two Cities This is a book written by English writer Charles Dickens. It describes the French Revolution. The two cities refer to Paris and London.This book means to revel the corruption of Capital society. Charles Dickens is a critical writer, who condemned the complex society in Britain at that time. He wrote certain famous books, such as Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and so on. 10) Anna of Green Gables 《清秀佳人》 Lucy Maud Montgomery（露西.M.蒙哥玛丽）,1874-1942, is a famous Canadian writer. 11) Heidi《海蒂》 A classic children's tale happened in Swiss Alps by Johanna Spyri.(乔哈娜 斯皮里） 12) The Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》 A novel written by the American writer F.Scott Fitzgerald 弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德 about the relationship between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, a married woman. It describes apparently rich and happy people in the New York of the 1920s who are, in actual fact, bored and disappointed. 13) Emily Dickinson 艾米丽 狄金森 Dickinson (1830-1886) is a US woman poet, whose clever and original work is still very popular today. 14) Robinson Crusoe The main character in Robinson Crusoe by the British writer Daniel Defoe丹尼尔 迪福(c.1660-1731). It describes how Crusoe manages to survive on a remote desert island when he is left all alone after a shipwreck. Later, he meets a black man whom he calls \and friend. 1996 15) Trollpe Anthony Trollope 安东尼·特洛勒普(1815-1882) is an English writer whose novels, such as Barchester Towers《巴塞特寺院》are famous for their description of Victorian England. 16) Jamaica Kincaid牙买加·琴凯德 （1949—）is an American short story writer, who wrote for New Yorker for 20 years. 17) Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt(1858-1919) is the 26th American President, in power from 1901 to 1909. He led American people to fight during the Great Depression and the Second World War. 18) John Kennedy John Kennedy 约翰·F·肯尼迪(1917-1963) was the President of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (35th) when he was assassinated. He has tow brothers——Robert Kennedy, who was also assassinated in 1968 and Ted Kennedy. 19) Moby-Dick《白鲸》 A novel published in 1851 by the US writer Herman Melville梅尔维尔 (1819-1891). Considered one of the greatest American novles, the book describes the captain of a whaling ship, Captain Ahab, who risks his life and the lives of his crew in his obsessive pursuit of a powerful white whale named Moby Dick. 20) Johannes Gutenberg Johannes Gutenberg 约翰内斯·古登堡 (c. 1398-1468) is the German inventor of movable type.(西方活字印刷) 21) Pride and Prejudice A novel published in 1813 by Jane Austin (1775-1817), a British woman writer. Generally regarded as one of the finest works ever written in the English language, the novel depicts the lives of Mr. And Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters. The most important characters are Elizabeth Bennet, a clever and amusing young woman and the rich and attractive young man, Mr. Darcy. The first sentence of this novel is one of the most famous in English literature:\in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a life.\ 22) To kill a mockingbird《杀死一只知更鸟》 A novel written by the American writer Harper Lee哈珀·李 in 1960, in which she describes how two children confront discrimination against black Americans in the southern United States as their lawyer father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman. 教 学 后 记