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前言
導言:讀它做什麼?
I 短篇故事 Short Stories
屠格涅夫 Ivan Turgenev
〈伯津草原〉Bezhin Lea
〈來自美麗之地的卡斯晏〉Kanyan from Beautiful Lands
契可夫Anton Chekhov
〈吻〉The Kiss
〈學生〉The Student
〈帶著狗的婦人〉The Lady with the Dog
莫泊桑 Guy de Maupassant
〈塔耶夫人之家〉Madame Tellier’s Establishment
〈霍勒〉The Horla
海明威 Ernst Hemingway
〈像白象般的山丘〉Hills Like White Elephants
〈先生,願主賜給您們歡欣〉God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
〈吉力馬扎羅山的雪〉The Snows of Kilimanjaro
〈鉅變〉A Sea Change
奧康納 Flannery O’Connor
〈好人難尋〉A Good Man Is Hard to Find
〈鄉間好人〉Good Country People
〈林中景色〉A View of the Woods
納布可夫 Vladimir Nabokov
〈范內姊妹〉The Vane Sister
波赫士 Jorge Luis Borges
〈特隆、烏克巴爾、奧比斯.特蒂烏斯〉Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
蘭多菲 Tommaso Landolfi
〈果戈里之妻〉Gogol’s Wife
卡爾維諾 Italo Calvino
《看不見的城市》Invisible City
結語
II 詩 Poetry
豪斯曼 A.E. Housman
〈在我心頭有風如刀割〉Into my Heart an Air that Kills
布雷克 William Blake
〈病玫瑰〉The Sick Rose
藍德Walter Savage Landor
〈為七十五歲誕辰而作〉 On His Seventy-fifth Birthday
丁尼生 Alfred Lord Tennyson
〈鷹〉 The Eagle
〈尤力西斯〉Ulysses
羅勃.布朗寧 Robert Browning
〈待封騎士羅蘭暗塔行〉Childe Rowland to the Dark Tower Came,
惠特曼Walt Whitman
《自我之歌》Song of Myself
狄金蓀 Emily Dickinson
第一二六○號詩:因你即將遠去Poem 1260, Because That You Are Going
愛蜜莉˙布朗蒂 Emily Bronte
詩節:屢遭責難,卻總是回歸Stanzas: Often rebuked, yet always back returning
民間歌謠 Popular Ballads
〈派翠克.史班斯爵士〉Sir Patrick Spence
〈騷動之墳〉The Unquiet Grave
佚名 Anonymous
〈貝德藍的湯姆〉Tom O’Bedlam
莎士比亞William Shakespeare
第一二一首〈寧可卑賤也強過枉擔了卑賤的虛名〉Sonnet 121: "’Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed"
第一二九首〈精神耗損在浪費的羞辱〉Sonnet 129: "Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame"
第一四四首〈我有兩個愛,分別帶來安慰與沮喪〉Sonnet 144: "Two loves I have, of comfort and despair"
彌爾頓John Milton
《失樂園》Paradise Lost
沃茲華斯William Wordsworth
〈彼時,昏睡遮蔽了我的靈智〉A slumber did my spirit seal
(我心雀躍,當我看見) My heart leaps up when I behold
柯律治 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
《耆舟子之歌》The Rime of the Ancient Marriner
雪萊Percy Bysshe Shelly
《生命凱歌》The Triumph of Life
濟慈John Keats
〈無情的美麗女子〉La Belle Dame Sans Merci
結語
III 小說,壹 Novels, Part 1
塞凡提斯:《唐吉訶德》 Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
斯丹達爾:《巴馬修道院》Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma
珍.奧斯汀:《愛瑪》Jane Austin: Emma
狄更斯:《偉大的期望》Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
杜斯妥也夫斯基:《罪與罰》Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
亨利.詹姆斯:《仕女圖》Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
普魯斯特:《追憶逝水年華》Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time
湯瑪斯.曼:《魔山》Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
結語
IV 戲劇 Plays
導言
莎士比亞:《哈姆雷特》William Shakespeare: Hamlet
易卜生:《海達.蓋博樂》Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
王爾德:《不可兒戲》Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
結語
V小說,貳 Novels, Part 2
梅爾維爾:《白鯨記》Herman Melville: Moby-Dick
威廉.福克納:《出殯現形記》William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
瓦斯特:《芳心寂寞小姐》Nathanael West : Miss Lonelyhearts
湯瑪斯.平仲:《第四十九號拍賣品的叫賣》Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49
柯馬克.麥卡錫:《血紅天頂》Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian
勞夫.艾力生:《隱形人》Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
湯妮.摩里生:《所羅門之歌》Toni Morrison: Song of Soloman
結語