西南大学外国语学院
英语专业学生必读的经典书目
1. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales 2. John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress 3. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
4. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels 5. Charles and Mary Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare 6. Charles Dickens, A Tale of two Cities 7. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair 8. Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice 9. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 10. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights 11. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), The Mill on the Floss
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12. Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island 13. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
14. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady 15. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles 16. E. M. Forster, A Passage to India 17. George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion 18. David Herbert Lawrence, Sons and Lovers 19. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse 20. Herman Melville, Moby Dick, or the Whale 21. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 22. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
23. Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 24. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
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25. Jack London, The Call of the Wild 26. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 27. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea 28. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury 29. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath 30. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind 3
