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2021年1月18日发(作者：散步课堂实录)
《金银岛》简介
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a
tale of
originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82
under the title The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island.
Traditionally considered a coming-of- age story, it is an adventure tale
known for its atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary
on the ambiguity of morality—as seen in Long John Silver—unusual for
children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatised
of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perception of
pirates is vast, including treasure maps with an
Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen with parrots on their
shoulders.

《小妇人》简介
Little Women is a novel published in 1868 and written by American author
Louisa May Alcott. The story concerns the lives and loves of four sisters
growing up during the American Civil War. It was based on Alcott's own
experiences as a child in Concord, Massachusetts with her three sisters,
Anna, May, and Elizabeth.

Little Women is the story of The Marches, a family used to hard toil and
suffering. Although Father March is away with the Union armies, the sisters
Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth keep in high spirits with their mother, affectionately
named Marmee. Their friendly gift of a Christmas holiday breakfast to a
neighbouring family is an act of generosity rewarded with wealthy Mr.
Laurence's gift of a surprise Christmas feast. However, despite their efforts
to be good, the girls show faults: the pretty Meg becomes discontented with
the children she teaches; boyish Jo loses her temper regularly; while the
golden-haired schoolgirl Amy is inclined towards affectation. However, Beth,
who keeps the house is always kind and gentle. After certain happy times
winning over the Laurences, dark times arrive as Marmee finds out about her
husband's illness. Worse is to come as Beth contracts scarlet fever in her
Samaritan efforts for a sick neighbour and becomes more or less an invalid.
The novel tells of their progress into young womanhood with the additional
strains of romance, Beth's terminal illness, the pressures of marriage and the
outside world. This is the story of their growing maturity and wisdom and the
search for the contentedness of family life. It was written in 1867 and is a
fictionalised biography of Alcott and her sisters. It has become a much loved
classic tale and, while some of its issues seem outdated, many of the trials
of the sisters are all too relevant today
《大卫科波菲尔》简介
David Copperfield is well known as one representative work by Charles
Dickens. The greatest novelist in the Victorian period depicted a broad
picture of the society of his times by telling the uncommon life of his boy hero,
David Copperfield. In addition, David Copperfield was also Dickens’ own
favorite. It is written in the first person and is the most autobiographical of all
his books. In writing, Dickens threw into this novel deep feelings and much of
his own experience in his younger days. By David’s history and experience,
Dickens in some way retrospected and drew a conclusion to his life and
expressed his life attitude and moral ideal. Furthermore his novel also
disclosed the faulty mask of capitalist society and remarkably reflected the
negative damage to the marriage, family and society caused by money. It is
safe to say that David Copperfield is one of the most excellent characters
among all Dickens created. The thesis undertakes to have a detailed study of
the characteristics of David Copperfield through the analysis of the influence
of the people around him and make a preliminary explanation to it. The work
will be done along the development of David Copperfield, from his childhood
to his adulthood. The analysis of the characteristics of David Copperfield will
provide us a chance to see the features of the capitalist society and give us
some inspiration about the life.
《格列佛游记》简介Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift wrote it in first part of it appeared in October 1726
and by November the book was in everybody's hand.
story of the book is known to us all. In the first part Gulliver describes
his shipwreck in Lilliput where the tallest peopole were six inches high. The
emperor believed himself to be the delight and terror of the universe, but it
appeared quite absurd to Gulliver who was twelve times as tall as he. In his
account of the two parties in the country, distinguished by the use of high
and low heels, Swift satirixes the Tories and the Whigs in England, Religious
disputes were laughed at in an account of a problem which divided the
Lilliputians:
follows an ironical comment:
upon the text, for the words are thses, that all true believers shall break their
eggs at the convenient end. And which is the convenient end seems, in my
humble opinion, to be left to every man's conscience, or at least in the power
of the Chief Magistrate to dtermine.
politics.
the second part, the voyage to Brobdingnag is described. Gulliver now
found himself a dwarf among men sixty feet in height. The King, who
regarded Eruope as if it were an anthill, said,
of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that
Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
after living among such a great race, could not but feel tempted to laugh at
the strutting and bowing of English lords and ladies as much as the King did
at him.
third part is a satire on philosophers and projuctors, who were given to