50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors
represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O'Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common–the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world's fiction.
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.
- 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
- 具备较高英语水平的进阶阅读者
- 备考托福GRE或SAT的英语学习者
- 喜爱外国文学经典与短篇小说的读者
- 部分篇目含方言或古语，需借助词典
- 建议利用碎片时间，口袋本便于携带
- 不必强求全懂，可挑选感兴趣篇目精读
- 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
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
- "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.""
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