书籍介绍
这不是一本适合一口气读完的书，却很适合被翻烂。作为Bantam Classics最畅销的选集之一，编辑Milton Crane曾向全美学者广泛征集意见，最终定下这50篇——篇篇经得起反复咀嚼。它真正的价值，在于为英文初学者提供了一条温和而体面的入门路径：读者普遍反馈，这是他们“第一次真正意义上读英文原著”，也是“第一本认真读的英文短篇”。篇目跨度极大，从爱伦·坡、莫泊桑到雪莉·杰克逊，风格与题材迥异，却共享一种“持久的文学品质”。它适合两类人：一类是想借经典短篇建立英文阅读习惯的初学者，另一类是意识到“短篇与中长篇完全是两回事”、想重新认识这一文体的文学爱好者。需要提醒的是，它纸张偏硬、页边偏窄，写批注不太方便，个别篇目也评价参差。
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核心看点
- 本书由编辑Milton Crane向全美学者征集意见后精心编选，收录了从霍桑、莫泊桑、爱伦·坡到海明威、福克纳等文学巨匠的50篇短篇小说，代表了世界短篇小说的最高水准，是了解西方文学经典脉络的权威读本。
- 选文风格与主题极其多样，涵盖社会阶级偏见、人性悲剧、荒诞讽刺及情感困境等深刻议题。如《花园茶会》揭示阶级压迫，《生活的标准》讽刺虚荣，每篇故事均具备极高的文学价值与思想深度，展现了短篇小说捕捉瞬间真理的独特魅力。
- 作为Bantam Classics畅销经典，本书虽为英文原版，但语言规范优美，包含大量值得背诵的段落。尽管部分读者反映纸张偏硬、页边距小不便笔记，但其作为英语文学入门及高级阅读素材的价值依然得到广泛认可，适合反复研读。
读者共识
- 读者普遍认为本书选篇质量极高，篇篇佳作，是了解世界文学经典的绝佳窗口。尽管部分读者反映纸质一般、页边距小不便做笔记，但鉴于其低廉的价格与极高的内容价值，仍被视为性价比极高的经典文学合集，值得收藏与反复阅读。
- 多数读者指出并非每篇故事都符合个人口味，部分篇目可能显得枯燥或难以理解，但这正是文学多样性的体现。建议读者根据自身兴趣选择性阅读，不要因个别篇目的晦涩而否定整本书的价值，坚持阅读仍能获得巨大的文学素养提升。
- 读者一致强调本书在英语语言学习上的价值，认为其中包含大量优美、规范的表达，适合背诵与模仿。同时，书中对人性、社会阶级的深刻洞察引发广泛共鸣，许多读者表示通过阅读本书，不仅提升了语言能力，更深化了对人性复杂性的理解与反思。
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
原版畅销外文书最便宜的…一直断断续续看
都是短篇 都是大家作品 好素材 就是字小了纸有点硬
短篇小说和中长篇真不是一回事 不是我的菜啊
第一次真正意义上看的英文原著，希望能以此为契机开始读原版书
第二次买这本书，只是为了再读一遍莫泊桑的looking back。Homesickness and friendless has made my life nothing but a long agony.
实际上是没读完）
页边太小不够写生词。倒数第二篇差评。
不太好看，挺喜歡這種類報紙的紙質
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