50 Great Short Stories
内容简介
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.
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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.
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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
Brooksmith-Henry James
The Juekey--Carson McCullers
The Courting of Dinah Shadd--Rudyard Kipling
The Shot--Alexander Poushkin (tratislated by T. Keane)
Graven Image--John O’Ham
Putois--Anatole France (translated by Frederic Chapman)
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn--Thomas Welfe
A. V. Laider--Max Beerbohm
The Lottery--Shirley Jackson
The Masque of the Red De, ath--Edgar Allan Poe
LookingBack--Guy de Maupassant (translated by H. N. P. Sloman)
The Man Higher Up--O. Henry
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse-- William Saroyan
The Other Two--Edith Wharton
Theft--Katherine Anne Porter
A Good Man Is Hard to Find--Flannery O’Connor
The Man of the House--Frank O’Connor
The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles-- Edmund Wilson
The Gioconda Sndle--Aldous Huxley
The Curfcw Tolls--Stephen Vincent Benet
Father Wakes Up the Village--Clarence Day
Ivy Day in the Committee Room--James Joyce
The Chrysanthemums--John Steinbeck
The Door--E. B. White
An Upheaval--Anton Chekhov
How Beautiful with Shoes--Wilbur Daniel Steele
A Haunted Houso--Virginia Woolf
The Catbird Seat--James Thurber
The Schartz-Metterklume Method--“Sald" (1-1. H. Munro)
The Death of a Bachelor--Arthur Schnitzler
The ApoState--George Milburn
The Phoenix--Sylvia Townsend Warner
That Evening Sun--William Faulkner
The Law--Robert M. Coates
The Tale--Joseph Conrad
A Girl from Red Lion, RA.--H. L. Mencken
Main Currents of American Thought--Irw/n Shaw.
The Ghosts--Lord Dunsany
The Minister’s Black Veil--Nathaniel Hawthorne
A String of Beads--W. Somerset Maugham
The Golden Honeymoon--Ring Lardner
The Man Who Could Work Miraeles--H. G. Wells
The Foreigner--Francis Steegrauller
Thrawn Janet--Robert Louis Stevenson
The Chaser--John Collier
Title Index
Author Index
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