Harper Lee tops librarians' must-read list
MIchelle Pauli
Thursday March 2, 2006
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1721526,00.html
三月二日世界圖書日當天, 英國圖書館員投票選出三十本人生必讀之書, 與斷背山有點關係的梅崗城故事, 得到票選第一名。
哈波•李(Harper Lee)一生祗寫過一本小說, 1960年出版的梅崗城故事(To Kill a Mocking Bird),
1961年得到普利茲獎, 1962年高居美國小說類排行榜第二名, 當年, 改編後的電影, 得到第35屆奧斯卡最佳劇本獎, 葛雷哥萊•畢克(Gregory Peck)因演出該電影, 而得到奧斯卡影帝。
聽說, 哈波•李十分低調, 從不拋頭露面或發表演說, 就靠著這本書, 活過一生。
梅崗城故事描述30年代美國南部的種族及階級問題, 藉由黑人被控強姦白種女性, 引發一連串事件。
The list in full
To Kill a Mockingbird [梅崗城故事] by Harper Lee 哈波•李
The Bible
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy [魔戒三部曲] by JRR Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell 喬治•歐威爾
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 狄更生
Jane Eyre [簡愛] by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice [傲慢與偏見] by Jane Austen 珍•奧斯汀
All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Gone With the Wind [飄] by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn