据英国bbc报道,每个民族都有自己最喜爱的作家和作品。bbc最近通过民意评选选出100部英国人最喜欢的文学作品。此次评选吸引了140000人参加投票,是上次bbc组织的“百大英国伟人”投票人数的4倍。在“百大作品”的名单上,有文学典籍,也有畅销书目,但是有一点是可以肯定的,大家喜欢的作品一般都有一个好的情节构架。
狄更斯有5部作品入选名单,使他成为得票数最多的作家。紧随其次的是因为《哈利·波特》系列走红的罗琳。乔治·奥维尔的《动物庄园》和《1984》都获得了相当的票数,使其成为最受喜爱的政治小说家。而浪漫小说中得票最多的是艾米丽·伯郎蒂的《呼啸山庄》。其他得票较多的书籍还有杰弗里·阿彻的《凯恩与亚伯》和詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》。
当然也有一些文学巨匠落选,包括海明威、伍德毫斯和h.g.韦尔斯。在一百部作品中,66本为英国作家所著,30本为儿童文学作品,71部曾改编成电影。详细的100部作品名单已于上周公布在bbc的官方网站上。
本年度英联邦文学奖揭晓据英国《卫报》报道,本年度英联邦的最高官方文学奖———英联邦作家奖于本月11日授予加拿大作家奥斯汀·克拉克(austinclarke),他的获奖作品是小说《磨亮的锄头》(thepolishedhoe)。此小说讲述了一个以西印度群岛甘蔗种植园作为背景的故事。奥斯汀·克拉克出生于巴巴多斯,现居加拿大的多伦多,写有9部小说和6部短篇小说集,此次是他第一次获跨国文学大奖。
英联邦作家奖创办于1987年,候选者来自54个以英语为官方语言的國家。去年的得主是澳大利亚作家理查德·弗拉甘(richardflanagan)。
现代拉丁语词典排上美国畅销书榜前列据美国《华盛顿邮报》报道,可能会有人认为拉丁语已经是一门死语言了,但是梵蒂冈出版的《现代拉丁语词典》近期却排上了美国畅销书榜的前列。
《现代拉丁语词典》包括了15000个被现代化了的拉丁语词条,其中不乏像“洗碗机”、“的士高”、“高尔夫”这种在拉丁语使用时代完全没有的东西。梵蒂冈的词典编撰者用已有的拉丁语单词“升级”出了这些词,原本的编撰目的是想让拉丁语这门古老的语言保持活力,但是在一些略懂拉丁语的读者看来,这些词典充满了趣味,他们可以在生活中秀一把这些新潮又不失古朴的拉丁单词。现在更新的一些词条已经在进一步修订之中。
title | author |
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the alchemist | paulo coelho |
alice’s adventures in wonderland | lewis carroll |
animal farm | george orwell |
anna karenina | leo tolstoy |
anne of green gables | lm montgomery |
artemis fowl | eoin colfer |
the bfg | roald dahl |
birdsong | sebastian faulks |
black beauty | anna sewell |
bleak house | charles dickens |
brave new world | aldous huxley |
brideshead revisited | evelyn waugh |
bridget jones’s diary | helen fielding |
captain corelli’s mandolin | louis de bernieres |
catch 22 | joseph heller |
the catcher in the rye | jd salinger |
charlie and the chocolate factory | roald dahl |
a christmas carol | charles dickens |
the clan of the cave bear | jean m auel |
cold comfort farm | stella gibbons |
the colour of magic | terry pratchett |
the count of monte cristo | alexandre dumas |
crime and punishment | fyodor dostoyevsky |
david copperfield | charles dickens |
double act | jacqueline wilson |
dune | frank herbert |
emma | jane austen |
far from the madding crowd | thomas hardy |
girls in love | jacqueline wilson |
the god of small things | arundhati roy |
the godfather | mario puzo |
gone with the wind | margaret mitchell |
good omens | terry pratchett and neil gaiman |
goodnight mister tom | michelle magorian |
gormenghast | mervyn peake |
the grapes of wrath | john steinbeck |
great expectations | charles dickens |
the great gatsby | f scott fitzgerald |
guards! guards! | terry pratchett |
harry potter and the chamber of secrets | jk rowling |
harry potter and the goblet of fire | jk rowling |
harry potter and the philosopher’s stone | jk rowling |
harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban | jk rowling |
his dark materials | philip pullman |
the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy | douglas adams |
the hobbit | jrr tolkien |
holes | louis sachar |
i capture the castle | dodie smith |
jane eyre | charlotte brontë |
kane and abel | jeffrey archer |
katherine | anya seton |
the lion, the witch and the wardrobe | cs lewis |
little women | louisa may alcott |
lord of the flies | william golding |
the lord of the rings | jrr tolkien |
love in the time of cholera | gabriel garcía márquez |
the magic faraway tree | enid blyton |
magician | raymond e feist |
the magus | john fowles |
matilda | roald dahl |
memoirs of a geisha | arthur golden |
middlemarch | george eliot |
midnight’s children | salman rushdie |
mort | terry pratchett |
night watch | terry pratchett |
nineteen-eighty-four | george orwell |
noughts and crosses | malorie blackman |
of mice and men | john steinbeck |
on the road | jack kerouac |
one hundred years of solitude | gabriel garcía márquez |
perfume | patrick süskind |
persuasion | jane austen |
the pillars of the earth | ken follett |
a prayer for owen meany | john irving |
pride and prejudice | jane austen |
the princess diaries | meg cabot |
the ragged trousered philanthropists | robert tressell |
rebecca | daphne du maurier |
the secret garden | frances hodgson burnett |
the secret history | donna tartt |
the shell seekers | rosamunde pilcher |
the stand | stephen king |
the story of tracy beaker | jacqueline wilson |
a suitable boy | vikram seth |
swallows and amazons | arthur ransome |
a tale of two cities | charles dickens |
tess of the d’urbervilles | thomas hardy |
the thorn birds | colleen mccollough |
to kill a mockingbird | harper lee |
a town like alice | nevil shute |
treasure island | robert louis stevenson |
the twits | roald dahl |
ulysses | james joyce |
vicky angel | jacqueline wilson |
war and peace | leo tolstoy |
watership down | richard adams |
the wind in the willows | kenneth grahame |
winnie-the-pooh | aa milne |
the woman in white | wilkie collins |
wuthering heights | emily brontë |