1 The English: A Portrait of a People
作者：Jeremy Paxman 杰里米·帕克斯曼In The English, the famously no-nonsense journalist and broadcaster Jeremy Paxman assesses what it means to be English today – specifically English, that is, not Welsh, Scottish, or Irish. In this wide-ranging work, Paxman charts the rise of a peculiar stereotype of Englishness that arose abroad in response to British colonialism, and its subsequent obsolescence following the disintegration of Empire. Emphasising the pluralistic interconnections between England's regions, cultures, and classes, The English gives historical grounding to some of the country' scurious social quirks and places them in the context of its people’s fluctuating identities.
小貼士：這本書更多偏向于對(duì)各個(gè)地區(qū)的英國(guó)人的解析，從中你可以知道英格蘭人、蘇格蘭人、威爾士人、愛爾蘭人的大致特征與差異，便于你更好的與他們相處。
2 White Teeth
作者：Zadie Smith 查蒂·史密斯Treating a broad sweep of British post-war history,White Teeth deals with the issues of London's immigrant population and their often conflicting desires to both assimilate and preserve their indigenous cultural identities. In an inimitable style that is now painfully funny, now heartrending, Smith also satirises the British middle and working classes while writing sensitively on such social issues as the generation gap in immigrant families, and even religious fundamentalism. A must-read for those seeking to know more about the diversity of Britain's cities.
《白牙》以二戰(zhàn)后的英國(guó)歷史為背景，探尋了倫敦移民的困難境遇，他們陷入了既渴望融入英國(guó)社會(huì)、又想保留自己祖國(guó)文化的矛盾當(dāng)中。Smith用一種笑中帶淚的獨(dú)特方式，諷刺了英國(guó)的中產(chǎn)階級(jí)和工人階級(jí)，同時(shí)還用細(xì)致入微的筆觸描寫了一些社會(huì)問題，例如移民家庭內(nèi)部的代溝、宗教原教旨主義等等。如果你想了解英國(guó)城市中的多元文化，這是你的必讀之物。
小貼士：二戰(zhàn)之后，英國(guó)的"日不落“帝國(guó)開始走向滅亡，這中間涌現(xiàn)了很多的移民問題，為英國(guó)之后多元化社會(huì)打下了堅(jiān)實(shí)的基礎(chǔ)。不管你的專業(yè)是什么，了解這一段歷史總是對(duì)你的英國(guó)留學(xué)有所幫助的。
3 Porterhouse Blue
作者：Tom Sharpe湯姆·夏普Whether you're looking to throw yourself bodily into life at Britain's most traditional educational institutions, or searching for a stick to beat them with, look no further than Tom Sharpe's rip-roaring parody of life at the fictional Cambridge college, Porterhouse. Crippled by the need to adhere to its own traditions, Porterhouse is thrown into disarray when the College Master dies before naming his successor; meanwhile, research student Lionel Zipser's desperation to keep a lid on his attraction to his maid leads him through a series of preposterous plotlines towards a hilarious finale. A taste at the cordon bleu end of fine British humour.
不論你是渴望去最傳統(tǒng)的英國(guó)高校求學(xué)，還是想嘲笑它們不合實(shí)際的習(xí)俗，都得來讀讀湯姆·夏普的這部作品，他在書中創(chuàng)造了一所虛擬的劍橋?qū)W院——Porterhouse，里面的故事肯定會(huì)令你捧腹大笑。按照Porterhouse學(xué)院悠久的傳統(tǒng)，只有學(xué)院院長(zhǎng)能夠選定自己的接任者?，F(xiàn)任院長(zhǎng)的突然死亡使得整個(gè)學(xué)院陷入混亂之中。同時(shí)，研究生Lionel Zipser暗戀他的仆人，又要死命隱瞞，因而發(fā)生了一系列荒謬可笑的事件，結(jié)局也令人開懷大笑。讀Porterhouse能讓你體驗(yàn)最經(jīng)典的英式幽默。
小貼士：留學(xué)，留學(xué)，我們肯定接觸最多的還是學(xué)院，這本書會(huì)讓你身臨其境般體會(huì)到里面的課堂故事，同時(shí)也會(huì)讓你更加明白英式幽默的幽默處何在。
4 The Road to Wigan Pier
作者：George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾In Wigan Pier, a middle-class writer composes one of the finest examples of working-class journalism ever set down on paper. The British are a nation acutely aware of social class, and navigating the proverbial minefield of class distinctions can often prove challenging for visiting students. Orwell documents living conditions for workers in the impoverished north of England in the late 1930s, before discussing the practical solutions to the problem. Very much a document of its time, but still one of great use for those interested in the roots of Britain’s ongoing class tensions.
本書的作者是中產(chǎn)階級(jí)，而它是關(guān)于工人階級(jí)的有史以來最佳的調(diào)查研究報(bào)告之一。英國(guó)人對(duì)社會(huì)階級(jí)極端敏感，而錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的階級(jí)差別常令留學(xué)生感到莫名其妙。書的開頭講述了英國(guó)北部的勞動(dòng)人民在30年代的艱苦生活條件，接著提出了解決該社會(huì)問題的幾個(gè)實(shí)在的方案。作家的一些論點(diǎn)無疑已過時(shí)了，但本書仍能令人深入了解英國(guó)不同階級(jí)之間長(zhǎng)久矛盾的歷史背景。
小貼士：英國(guó)的中產(chǎn)階級(jí)對(duì)于社會(huì)階級(jí)的連接起著十分關(guān)鍵的作用，例如當(dāng)初征服者威廉在統(tǒng)一英格蘭之后，法語席卷英國(guó)，但是法語只是在上層階級(jí)中使用，而英語則廣泛應(yīng)用于下層階級(jí)，而作為兩個(gè)階級(jí)的紐帶——中產(chǎn)階級(jí)很大程度擴(kuò)展了英語詞匯。在諾曼統(tǒng)治時(shí)期，大約有一萬個(gè)法語詞進(jìn)入英語，其中大約四分之三使用至今。這些法語單詞在各個(gè)領(lǐng)域都有，從政府和法律到藝術(shù)和文學(xué)。超過三分之一的英語單詞或直接或間接源自法語，有統(tǒng)計(jì)表明，一位英語為母語，從未學(xué)習(xí)過法語的人已經(jīng)能認(rèn)識(shí)一萬五千個(gè)法語單詞。
5 Great Expectations
作者：Charles Dickens 查爾斯·狄更斯Great Expectations may seem like an obvious choice, but it will do more than reward the Chinese penchant for Victorian high society. As well as being one of the most recognisable English-language stories, the novel explores social mobility, the contemporary class system, and empire, all backed up with a number of Dickens' larger-than-life characters and the first-person voice of the ever hopeful Pip. For the Chinese reader, it’s a cultural exploration of Britain at one of the most important points in her history, and a classic piece of literature by the second-most famous British writer of all time.
本書單包括《遠(yuǎn)大前程》似乎理所應(yīng)當(dāng)，但它的作用其實(shí)不只局限于滿足中國(guó)人對(duì)維多利亞時(shí)代上流社會(huì)的興趣。該小說不但是英文名著，還探究社會(huì)流動(dòng)性、維多利亞時(shí)代的社會(huì)階級(jí)系統(tǒng)和大英帝國(guó)的歷史。此書始終用第一人稱——永遠(yuǎn)充滿希望的“皮普”來敘事，并充斥著諸多非同凡響的人物故事。對(duì)于中國(guó)讀者而言，《遠(yuǎn)大前程》是一場(chǎng)文化之旅，探究英國(guó)歷史中最重要的一章，同時(shí)也是英國(guó)第二大作家的名垂千古的經(jīng)典之作。
小貼士：留學(xué)更多就是不同文化與文化之間的碰撞，從而更好的去接受其他文化，如果不了解對(duì)方歷史，根本就碰撞不出火花。這本以第一人稱寫的書籍，會(huì)讓你產(chǎn)生一個(gè)全新的英國(guó)文化之旅。
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