《The Old Man And The Sea》等6部經典小說開頭及在線聆聽

1. Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man And The Sea (1952)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGw2JeTyJo4



"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream
and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."
 

2. J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan (1911)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txX-bTlt3HA



"All children, except one, grow up."
 

3. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (1878)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kjWJjtMwuQ



“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."



4. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifvUp0NrwLI



“It is a truth universally acknowledged,
that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”




5. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)
http://bbs.wenxuecity.com/yingyuziliao/174840.html



"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticising any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”



6. Charles Dickens: A Tale Of Two Cities (1859)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GQ27Nu7Aqk


 

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."