好書齊分享:豐富書架的50本精品小說(1)
1. King Lear
《李爾王》
It’s Shakespeare! And it was so ahead of its time that it’s amazing.
莎士比亞大師作品！它超越了它誕生的時代，因此更顯得讓人讚歎。
2. Hamlet
《哈姆雷特》
Also by Shakespeare. Some of Shakespeare's most amazing writing is in this play.
同樣是莎士比亞的作品，他最卓著的幾句話都出自這部戲劇。
3. The Great Gatsby
《了不起的蓋茨比》
By F. Scott Fitzgerald. Just an absolutely poetic writer. There's a lot of power and beauty in this short book.
作者弗·司各特·菲茨傑拉德，一位充滿詩意的作家。在這部短篇小說裏有很多對權欲的描寫。
4. Tender Is the Night
《夜色溫柔》
By F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gatsby is better known, but Tender is written so beautifully that you have to read it if you haven’t. It’s poetry in prose.
同樣是弗·司各特·菲茨傑拉德的作品，只不過《了不起的蓋茨比》更加出名。但《夜色溫柔》的文筆如此如此優美，以至於你不得不去看，它是一首散文詩。
5. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
《青年藝術家的畫像》
By James Joyce. A great introduction to this unmatched of modern writers, Portrait is notable for the development of its language as the narrator’s skill with language improves.
詹姆斯·喬伊斯的作品，是這位無與倫比的現代作家的半自傳體小說。這部小說因爲作者日益提升的創作技巧和語言特色而著名。
6. Ulysses
《尤利西斯》
By James Joyce. An absolute masterpiece. Joyce puts the entire scale of human drama and English literature within the span of 24 hours, plotted within one square mile, told through the lives of ordinary people. Also see Joyce’s outstanding book of short stories, Dubliners.
作者詹姆斯·喬伊斯，這完全是一部傑作。故事發生在短短一天時間裏，將整個都柏林地區生活狀態和英國文學融入對普通人生活的刻畫中。
7. Cat’s Cradle
《貓的搖籃》
By Kurt Vonnegut. I just can't get enough of Vonnegut, and I was devastated that he died several years ago. Until then, he held the title of my absolute favorite living writer. And Cat’s Cradle is my favorite of all his books. I think Vonnegut is in my granfalloon.
作者庫爾特·馮內古特，我對他的作品簡直愛不釋手，不過令人震驚的是他幾年前去世了。在那之前，他一直是我所推崇的在世作家，而《貓的搖籃》是他所有作品中我最愛的一部，我想我們志趣相同。
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
《第五號屠宰場》
By Kurt Vonnegut. Anything by Vonnegut is excellent reading, but this is one of his best, and is considered a classic. A more humorous and raging commentary against war has rarely been written. Also see Bluebeard, Slapstick, Welcome to the Monkey House, Breakfast of Champions, among others, if you like the two listed here.
同樣是庫爾特·馮內古特的作品，馮內古特的任何作品都是精品，而這是他生涯的代表作之一，被稱爲經典名作。沒有比這部小說更幽默和激烈抨擊戰爭的。如果有興趣，還可以看看他的其他作品，如《藍鬍子》《打鬧劇》《歡迎到猴子屋》《冠軍早餐》等。
9. Neuromancer
《神經漫遊者》
By William Gibson. Perhaps my favorite sci-fi writer of all time, Gibson is gritty, dreamy, and ultra-cool all at the same time. Neuromancer was his first, and is the start of the Span trilogy.
威廉·吉布森也許是我最喜愛的科幻小說作家了，吉布森不僅勇敢、充滿夢想，而且酷斃了。《神經漫遊者》是他的第一部小說，同時也是蔓生都會三部曲第一部。
10. All Tomorrow’s Parties
《明日聚會》
By William Gibson. This tale of the near future features a Zen-like assassin, among other cool characters. ATP is the third in the Bridge trilogy.
作者威廉·吉布森，這部基於近未來的科幻作品主角是一個身處其他超酷的角色之間的充滿禪意的刺客。《明日聚會》是吉布森橋三部曲第三部。
