Unit 1 The Alchemist—Paulo Coelho 8
Unit 2 The Kite Runner—Khaled Hosseini 17
Unit 3 The Good Earth—Pearl S.Buck 26
Unit 4 The Catcher in the Rye—Jerome David Salinger 35
Unit 5 Nineteen Eighty-Four—George Orwell 44
Unit 6 The Plague—Albert Camus 55
Unit 7 Siddhartha—Hermann Hesse 64
Unit 8 The Story of the Stone—Cao Xueqin 74
Unit 9 Lord of the Flies—William Golding 82
Unit 10 Brave New World—Aldous Huxley 91
Unit 11 Crime and Punishment—Fyodor Dostoevsky 101
Unit 12 The Picture of Dorian Gray—Oscar Wilde 110
Unit 13 DeathinVenice—Thomas Mann 120
Unit 14 Fortress Besieged—Qian Zhongshu 130
Key to Exercises 139
Glossary 182