In "The English", Jeremy Paxman, a journalist and host who is famous for his frankness, directly evaluates the self-consciousness of contemporary English people and analyzes their differences with Welsh, Scots and Irish people. This work has a wide range of contents. Paxman wrote in his book that the colonization of the British Empire around the world caused many strange prejudices against the British. Today, although the British Empire has already collapsed, many countries still maintain old prejudices. Paxman described the historical background of some strange quirks in British society by describing the pluralistic relationship between cultures and social classes in various regions of Britain, and compared it with the changeable self-cognition of modern people. Readers who are going to study in Britain can get to know Britain again from a perspective that ordinary people can't reach. This is a different experience before studying in Britain.
NO.2 "White Teeth", by rap? Smith (last name)
"White Teeth" takes British history after World War II as the background, and discusses the difficult situation of London immigrants, who are caught in the contradiction between their desire to integrate into British society and their desire to preserve their motherland's culture. Smith satirized the middle class and working class in Britain with tears in his unique way, and at the same time described some social problems with meticulous brushwork, such as the generation gap religious fundamentalism within immigrant families and so on. If you want to study in Britain and learn about the multiculturalism of British cities, please put it in capsules. It should be required reading before studying in the UK.
Third place "Porterhouse Blue" by Tom Sharp.
Whether you are eager to study in the most traditional British universities or want to laugh at their unrealistic customs, you must read this work by Tom Sharp, in which he created a virtual Cambridge College. Porterhouse, the story inside is sure to make you laugh. According to the long tradition of Porthouse College, only the dean of the college can choose his successor. The sudden death of the current dean threw the whole college into chaos. At the same time, Lionel Zipser, a graduate student, secretly loved his servant and tried to hide it, so a series of ridiculous events happened, and the ending made people laugh. Reading Porterhouse can make you experience the most classic British humor.
The Road to Wigan Pier No.4, by George? Orwell
The author of this book is the middle class, and it is one of the best research reports on the working class ever. British people are extremely sensitive to social class, and complicated class differences often confuse international students. At the beginning, the book tells about the hard life of working people in northern England in the 1930s, and then puts forward several practical solutions to this social problem. Some of the writer's arguments are undoubtedly out of date, but this book can still give people a deep understanding of the historical background of the long-standing contradictions between different classes in Britain.
Fifth place "Great Expectations", Charles? bewitched
It seems natural that Great Expectations is included in the list of required books before studying in Britain, but its function is not limited to satisfying China people's interest in Victorian society. This novel is not only an English masterpiece, but also explores social mobility, the Victorian social class system and the history of the British Empire. This book always uses the first person? Always hopeful? Pip. Narrative, and full of many extraordinary stories. For readers in China, Great Expectations is a cultural journey, exploring the most important chapter in British history, and it is also the masterpiece of the second largest British writer. Let you review the history and culture of traditional Britain and experience modern Britain while studying in Britain.