书籍介绍
这不是一本适合轻松消遣的英文选集，而是一场需要词典、耐心和语感的硬仗。翻开它，你会立刻被肯尼斯·曼斯菲尔德花园派对旁死去的工人家庭、被欧·亨利笔下精明的店员、被那些刻意用黑人方言、爱尔兰口音写就的段落拦住去路——不少读者坦言好几篇靠猜、靠查词才能推进。但正是这种"难"，构成了它最真实的价值：它逼你真正进入英语的肌理。多位读者指出，篇目立意深刻而讽刺，语言的精巧与"短中之深"令人着迷，尤其适合托福之后备战GRE、SAT的人，借名家名篇触摸英语的韵律与张力。它适合愿意慢下来、把阅读当训练的读者，而非只想快速读完故事的人。
作者简介
Milton Crane is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at George Washington University and the University of Chicago. His is the author several books and articles on English literature, as well as the editor of the Bantam anthology, 50 Great American Short Stories.
AI导读
核心看点
- 收录霍桑、海明威等名家五十篇经典短篇
- 涵盖多样风格与主题，展现文学大师笔力
- 精选二十世纪上半叶具有深远意义的佳作
读者共识
- 文学性极高，但阅读难度较大
- 故事寓意深刻，极具讽刺与现实感
- 坚持读完能显著提升英语阅读能力
精彩摘录
- "This life is Wee-ary, A Tear -- a Sigh. A Love that Chan-ges, This life is Wee-ary, A Tear -- a Sigh. A Love that Chan-ges, And then...Goodbye! "Aren't I in good voice,mummy?"She beamed. This Life is Wee-ary, Hope comes to Die. A Dream -- a Wakening."
- ""Mother,can I come into your room?"Laura turned the big glass doorknob. "Of course,child.Why,what's the matter?What's given you such a colour?"And Mrs.Sheridan turned round from her dressing-table.She was trying on a new hat. "Mother, a man's been killed."began Laura. "Not in the garden?"interupted "
- "She'd never get married. She was too smart for the men who would want her and too plain for the men she'd want herself. 剩女的困境"
- "“Oh sir,it's sad for you,very sad indeed, and for a great many gentlemen and ladies;that it is,sir. but for me,sir,it is,if I may say so,still graver even than that:it's just a loss of something that was everything. for me, sir,”he went on with rising tears,"he was just all,if you know what I mean,s"
- "They looked alike, thought the resemblance did not lie in their features. It was in the shape of their bodies, their movements, their style, and their adornments. Annabel and Midge did, and completely, all that young office workers are besought not to do. They painted their lips and their nails, the"
- "Forgive my hat,"
- "Then customers come back, later in life, when they are rather better off, and want more expensive things. Here you are. You will find it very effective."
- "I couldn't help it.Just like when the three-day blows come now and rip all the leaves off the trees.""
目录
The Garden Party--Katherine Mansfield
The Three-Day Blow--Ernest Hemingway
The Standard of Living--Dorothy Parker
The Saint--E S. Pritchett
The Other Side of the Hedge--E. M. Forster
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用户评论
我喜欢里面写得非常诙谐的故事，常常读一小段就忍不住被逗笑一次，悦读之享受啊。
毛姆好赞！
classic selection.
Love this version.
为了学英语读的，发现小说的文学性都很高，特别适合托福通过奋战gre或sat的同学读，可以比较深入了解英语的语言魅力
看不进去，弃
太难读了，希望有人能带着一起读
最喜欢的一篇：The Schartz-Metterklume Method，强烈推荐。
另外几篇也很赞：The Man Higher Up/The Chrysanthemums/The Catbird Seat。
不喜欢抽象的、意识流的那几篇，看不懂，可能是我欣赏水平低。
机场读物，挺方便手拿着读，而且便宜
中文都读不完。没读完系列
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