你曾思考过读书的意义是什么吗？为什么我们从小就无数次地被教导“要多看书”？如果你心中仍存有疑惑，下面这张图片将会使你豁然开朗。
书犹药也，善读之可以医愚。站得越高，视野越开阔，心境也会随之不同。今天小编要为大家推荐8部不同风格的英文小说，每一部都是能够给予人无限启迪、值得反复阅读的佳作！
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being《不能承受的生命之轻》
作者：Milan Kundera米兰·昆德拉
The Unbearable Lightness of Beingtakes place mainly in Prague in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover-these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. Kundera’s first sinceThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel the unbearable lightness of being not only as the consequence of our private actions, but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.
米兰·昆德拉编著的《不能承受的生命之轻》是一部长篇小说。沉重的负担压迫着我们，让我们屈服于它，把我们压到地上。但与此同时，沉重的负担也成了强盛的生命力的影像。负担越重，我们的生命越贴近大地，它就越真切实在。相反，当负担完全缺失，人就会变得比空气还轻，就会飘起来，就会远离大地和地上的生命，人也就只是一个半真的存在，其运动也会变得自由而没有意义。
那么，到底选择什么？是重还是轻？
“迷途漫漫，终有一归。”
作者：Paulo Coelho保罗·柯艾略
The Alchemist follows the journey of an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Believing a recurring dream to be prophetic, he decides to travel to a Romani fortune-teller in a nearby town to discover its meaning. The woman interprets the dream as a prophecy telling the boy that there is a treasure in the pyramids in Egypt. He journeys from Spain to Morocco in search of worldly success, and eventually to Egypt, where a fateful encounter with an alchemist brings him at last to self-understanding and spiritual enlightenment.
牧羊少年圣地亚哥接连两次做了同一个梦，梦见埃及金字塔附近藏有一批宝藏。少年卖掉羊群，历尽千辛万苦一路向南，跨海来到非洲，穿越“死亡之海”撒哈拉大沙漠。期间奇遇不断，在一位炼金术士的指引下，他终于到达金字塔前，悟出了宝藏的真正所在……
“想要学到本事，只有一种方式，那就是行动。”
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To Kill a Mockingbird《杀死一只知更鸟》
作者：Harper Lee哈珀·李
A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel—a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man’s struggle for justice—but the weight of history will only tolerate so much.
“如果可以的话，你可以去捕猎蓝鸦，但记得不要去伤害无害的知更鸟。”这样建议他的孩子们的律师芬奇同时也在保护着现实中的“知更鸟”，一个被指控强奸白人女孩但实则无辜的黑人。1930年代，在种族歧视严重、阶级等级森严的美国南部小镇，人们的良知被偏见、暴力和虚伪掩盖，而一位正直、勇敢的律师通过自己不畏强暴、艰难的伸张正义之举，唤起人们原本的善良、同情和人性美好的一面。
“人们通常看到的是他们想看的，听到的也是他们想听的。”
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Of Mice and Men《人鼠之间》
作者：John Steinbeck约翰·斯坦贝克
Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they’ll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn’t know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets into trouble with the boss’s daughter-in-law. Trouble so bad that even his protector George may not be able to save him...
莱尼身高两米，力气大得吓人，但心智却像个孩子，经常闯祸。他仅有的朋友是从小和他一起长大的乔治。乔治带着他到处打零工糊口。他们有一个梦想，希望有一天可以存够钱买一小块地，种菜，养鸡，养猪，养莱尼心爱的兔子，结束流浪的日子。然而，即使是这样卑微的梦想，似乎也不可即。
这次，他们流浪到一座农场。永无休止的流浪总算到了尽头，但梦想也到了尽头。乔治终于帮莱尼找到一个地方。在那里，莱尼永远不会再闯祸，永远不会再受伤害，永远不需要再逃亡……
“一个人跟另一个人说话，但是对方听见了没有，听懂了没有都不重要。”
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This Side of Paradise《人间天堂》
作者：F. Scott Fitzgerald菲茨杰拉德
Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips that studded the walls of his room and his on/off engagement to Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald began his third revision of the novel that was to become This Side of Paradise.
The story of a young man’s painful sexual and intellectual awakening that echoes Fitzgerald’s own career, it is also a portrait of the lost generation that followed straight on from the First World War, 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken' and wanting money and success more than anything else.
This Side of Paradise《人间天堂》讲述二十世纪二十年代，是美国史上一个特殊的年代。那个喧腾年代，国家呈现出一种不寻常的面貌。小说主人公艾莫里·布莱恩，便是那个年代迷惘、彷徨和失望的年轻人的代表。他英俊而家境优渥，他的雄心勃勃、意气昂扬、受挫失望、悲观迷惘，都是菲茨杰拉德本人和他同时代年轻人的真实写照。他们沉溺于漫长的、日以继夜的梦幻之中，总有一天必然要走出来，走进那个肮脏的、灰色的旋涡中去追求他们的爱情和骄傲。
“尘世乐园，勇敢追梦。”
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The Awakening《觉醒》
作者：Kate Chopin凯特·肖邦
First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman’s emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman’s abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threaten to consumer her. Originally entitled “A Solitary Soul,” this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the sensesThe Awakening, Kate Chopin’s last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as “beautifully written.” And Willa Cather described its style as “exquisite,” “sensitive,” and “iridescent.”
美国女作家凯特·肖邦于1899年创作的小说The Awakening《觉醒》通过描述女主人公艾德娜·庞蒂利埃的几个层面的“觉醒”，努力塑造了一位要求个人自由、敢于表达实现自身价值的愿望、敢于表达女性自我意识的“新女性”。然而，艾德娜的这些顿悟只能被看作是一种勇敢却痛苦的历程，远没有达到“醒”的目标。在寻求女性独立人格的过程中，她的许多梦想一个个地破灭，让她认识到，作为一位女性，现实中许多事情都超越了自己能够掌握的界限，她永远都不可能成为她自己，最终迫使她彻底放弃自己的所求。
“我时常盯着某样东西看很久，思绪好像落入了迷宫。”