《都柏林人》是詹姆斯#乔伊斯久负盛名的短篇小说集，称得上20世纪整个西方最著名的短篇小说集了。1914年出版，置景于二三十年代的都柏林，截取中下层人民生活的横断面，一个片刻一群人，十五个故事汇集起来，宛若一幅印象主义的绘画，笔触简练，错落成篇，浮现出苍凉世态，遥远、清冷，然而精致。这15篇故事，以写实和讽刺的表现手法描绘了二十世纪初期都柏林中下阶层的生活，瘫痪和死亡贯穿全书。

　詹姆斯·乔伊斯对体制化的宗教和陈腐的道德都毫无敬意，因此他选择了背井离乡的生活。这本《都柏林人》汇集了他的短篇杰作，作品冲破了语言和文化上的隔阂，令人刻骨铭心。书中描摹世态的高超技法，隐而不露的嘲讽以及瞬间爆发的力量，对于渴望成为作家的人来说，尤为引人注目。其中人物形形色色，有逃学的男孩、死了亲人的老处女、思春的少女、狡诈的流浪汉等等。 
　　《都柏林人》为英文版。

　清代学者王鸣盛有言， “凡读书最切要者，目录之学，目录明，方可读书；不明，终是乱读。”大学自诞生之日起就与经典阅读相关，故而书目之于大学实不可或缺，不同学校、不同专业，所需书目也不尽相同。
　　西方大学一词源于拉丁文universitas，是指教师与学生自发的联合体，这个联合体自发地从四面八方聚集在一起谈经论道，催生了欧洲中世纪大学，意大利的波罗尼亚大学、法国的巴黎大学，英国的牛津大学也莫不如此。现代大学一直秉承经典阅读的传统，19世纪英国教育家约翰·纽曼（Iohn H．Newman，1801—1 890）针对为适应工业革命的新大学产生的功利主义倾向而提出自己的大学理想，他认为：大学教育的目的是发展人的理智，大学的真正使命是“培养良好的社会公民”并随之带来社会的和谐发展。要实现大学的理想，教师率先垂范，与学生和谐相处，教育当以人文主义为旗帜，还要学生阅读经典，通过阅读来修身。20世纪，美国芝加哥大学校长赫钦斯（Robert M．Hutchins，1899—1977）秉承纽曼的自由教育思想，捍卫学术自由，对当时盛行的美国实用主义提出批评，反对大学过分专业化，强调学生的心智训练，引进名著学习与阅读，并催生芝加哥大学本科生必读的书目（54本）。迄今为止，美国的中学、大学大多给学生提供必读书目；我国越来越多的高校也开始制订各种各样的阅读书目，如清华大学通识教育书单，港澳台的大学也有自己的阅读书目。
　　我国外语专业类书目始于民国时期。当时吴宓先生担任清华大学外文系系主任，提出以“培养博雅之士”为目标的教学模式。其办学总则第一条就指明课程编制之目的是使学生“成为博雅之士，了解西洋文明之精神；熟读西方文学之名著，谙悉西方思想之潮流，因而在国内教授英、德、法各国语言文学，足以胜任愉快；创造今世之中国文学；汇通东西之精神思想，而互为介绍传布。”而达此目标最主要的途径就是“让学生阅读成为德才兼备之人必读的一些好书①”。基于这样的办学原则和理念，吴宓先生在《文学与人生》课程里开出了共152本书的书单，其中中文77本，外文75本（主要是英文著作，也有法文原著和其他语种作品的英文译著）。因为这门课程是为在校所有专业学生开设的，故所开书目并不是完全意义上的外语专业书单，但较为系统地列出英文书目尚属首次。该书目对当时的人才培养起到了积极作用。
　　2000年高等学校外语专业教学指导委员会英语组颁布的《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》附有英语专业学生阅读参考书目，共列118本，其中英国文学49本，美国文学41本，加拿大文学7本，澳大利亚文学9本，中国文化12本。前四个国

詹姆斯·乔伊斯（James Joyce,1882-1941），爱尔兰作家、诗人，二十世纪*伟大的作家之一，后现代文学的奠基者之一，其作品及“意识流”思想对世界文坛影响巨大。代表作品《尤利西斯》《芬尼根的守灵夜》《一个青年艺术家的画像》。

The Sisters
An Encounter
Araby
Eveline
After the Race
Two Gallants
The Boarding House
A Little Cloud
Counterparts
Clay
A Painful Case
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
A Mother
Grace
The Dead
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　It was Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us. He hada little library made up of old numbers of The Union Jack, Pluckand The Halfpenny Marvel. Every evening after school we met inhis back garden and arranged Indian battles. He and his fat youngbrother Leo, the idler, held the loft of the stable while we tried tocarry it by storm; or we fought a pitched battle on the grass. But,however well we fought, we never won siege or battle and all ourbouts ended with Joe Dillon‘s war dance of victory. His parentswent to eight-o’clock mass every morning in Gardiner Street andthe peaceful odour of Mrs Dillon was prevalent in the hall of the house. But he played too fiercely for us who were younger and more timid. He looked like some kind of an Indian when he capered round the garden, an old tea-cosy on his head, beating a tin with his fist and yelling:
　　“Ya! yaka, yaka, yaka!”
　　Everyone was incredulous when it was reported that he had a vocation for the priesthood. Nevertheless it was true.
　　A spirit of unruliness diffused itself among us and, under its influence, differences of culture and constitution were waived. We banded ourselves together, some boldly, some in jest and some almost in fear: and of the number of these latter, the reluctant Indians who were afraid to seem studious or lacking in robustness,I was one. The adventures related in the literature of the Wild West were remote from my nature but, at least, they opened doors of escape. I liked better some American detective stories which were traversed from time to time by unkempt fierce and beautiful girls.Though there was nothing wrong in these stories and though their intention was sometimes literary, they were circulated secretly at school. One day when Father Butler was hearing the four pages of Roman History, clumsy Leo Dillon was discovered with a copy of The Halfpenny Marvel.
　　“This page or this page? This page? Now, Dillon, up. ‘Hardly had the day’... Go on! What day? ‘Hardly had the day dawned’... Have you studied it? What have you there in your pocket?”
　　Everyone‘s heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face. Father Butler turned over the pages, frowning.
　　“What is this rubbish?” he said. “The Apache Chief. Is this what you read instead of studying your Roman History? Let me not lind any more of this wretched stuff in this college~. The man who wrote it, I suppose, was some wretched fellow who writes these things for a drink. I’m surprised at boys like you, educated, reading such stuff! I could understand it if you were... National School boys. Now, Dillon, I advise you strongly, get at your work or...”
　　This rebuke during the sober hours of school paled much of the glory of the Wild West for me, and the confused puffy face of Leo Dillon awakened one of my consciences.
　　……