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悦读】十本美国高中生必读文学经典倾情推荐 此文作者Kevin Smokler是Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Havent Touched Since High School这本书的作者。本文中，他特别推荐了十本美国人高中必读的文学书，并且为每本书提供了真够吸引美国人重新阅读的理由！文学作品的泛读对英语水平的提高可谓是HUUUUUGE！！童鞋们赶紧看过来哦，给自己定个阅读计划吧！ ?I spent the last year rereading the books my high school teachers assigned to me. My thinking: It isn’t enough to give a classic another look just because “it’s a classic.”?A classic is also so because of its resonance and usefulness throughout time,?JST as Shakespeare’s?Henry V?was a patriotic salvo when Laurence Olivier adopted it in 1944 and a warning about the cost of empire when Kenneth Brannagh did at the end of the Cold War. Below are 10 high school classics where I found that useful thing I missed the first time around.  1. 伟大的盖茨比 The Great Gatsby?by F. Scott Fitzgerald -?Fast cars, huge houses, a raised martini glass and a love that cannot be. No wonder F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel gets credit for both naming and embodying the most glamorous era of the 20th century. I had forgotten that Nick Carroway tells the story of Gatsby and Daisy in flashblack, a eulogy to a romance and an era that are gone. The novel’s unforgettable closing passages are as much about acceptance as longing, as much aboutthe pain of age than forbidden desire and American dreams.  2.哈克贝利费恩历险记 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?by Mark Twain -?Another contender for the great American novel that, sneakily,?is as much about maturity as youth. The time of Huck and Jim is nearly a half-century before the 1884 publication of their story. It took Mark Twain 8 long years to write this sequel toTom Sawyer?(1876) during which time he also completed a memoir about his 20s as a young riverboat pilot. But if Twain meant Huck Finn to be a song of nostalgia about the innocence of childhood and an earlier America, he used that all up in?Tom Sawyer. The America of Huck Finn is violent, cruel, and unforgiving, as much about blood feuds and human bondage as adventures wi