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轉貼:美國國會圖書館公布「最影響美國人書單」

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【美國】國會圖書館公布「最影響美國人書單」
2012.6.27 
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美國館藏量最大的國會圖書館(Library of Congress22日公布一份最影響美國人書單,遴選出88部由美國作家所著、對美國社會最具影響力的書籍,《飄》《麥田捕手》《大亨小傳》等一批名著入選。


這份書單由國會圖書館專家們遴選而出,其中年代最久的書籍是班傑明佛蘭克林1751年出版的《電學實驗與觀察》。入選書目還包括一批深受讀者喜愛的名家名著,如《飄》《麥田捕手》《大亨小傳》《頑童歷險記》和《小婦人》等。

館方認為,此次入選部分書籍或曾在當時社會引發爭議,但仍對美國乃至全世界讀者了解美國社會發揮了一定作用。

國會圖書館館長詹姆斯比林頓說,圖書館此次無意打造一份最佳美國書目,關鍵還是希望讀者對影響美國人及美國社會的書籍展開廣泛討論,鼓勵讀者閱讀入選書籍、參與問卷調查、撰寫評論,甚至可以推薦自己心中的最具影響力書單」。

國會圖書館始創於1800年,是美國地位最特殊的圖書館,也是歷史最悠久的聯邦文化機構,其館藏量在全球圖書館中名列前茅。


Further Reading
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/books-that-shaped-america/
Books That Shaped America

The Library of Congress, the world’s largest repository of knowledge and information, began a multiyear “Celebration of the Book” with an exhibition on “Books That Shaped America.” The initial books in the exhibition are displayed below.

“This list is a starting point,” said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. “It is not a register of the ‘best’ American books – although many of them fit that description. Rather, the list is intended to spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives, whether they appear on this initial list or not.”

We hope you will view the list, nominate other titles, and most importantly, choose to read and discuss some of the books on this list, reflecting America’s unique and extraordinary literary heritage, which the Library of Congress makes available to the world.

My Selected

Title

Author

Date

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

1884

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X and Alex Haley

1965

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

1903

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

1951

Experiments and Observations on Electricity

Benjamin Franklin

1751

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

1940

Gone With the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

1936

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

1939

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1925

Howl

Allen Ginsberg

1956

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

1855

Moby-Dick; or The Whale

Herman Melville

1851

New Hampshire

Robert Frost

1923

Poems

Emily Dickinson

1890

Poor Richard Improved and The Way to Wealth

Benjamin Franklin

1758

Pragmatism

William James

1907

The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D.

Benjamin Franklin

1793

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1850

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

1929

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

1947

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

1900

 

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