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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |


