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十本必读的短篇英文名著看完了小编介绍的英文名著，有些小伙伴说太长了，看的有点累，那今天就为大家介绍一些短篇的英文名著，快看看有没有你喜欢的。

1.傻瓜威尔逊(The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson)作者马克·吐温 (Mark Twain)内容梗概有黑人血统的女奴罗克珊为了让儿子逃脱奴隶命运，把主人的儿子和自己的儿子在摇篮里掉包。

她真正的儿子汤姆在优越环境中长大，而主人的小孩尚布则沦落为奴隶。

推荐理由本篇用了侦探小说手法，一波三折，具有极强可读性。

马克·吐温招牌式幽默和讽刺能让你会心一笑。

2.案中案(A Double Barrelled Detective Story)作者马克·吐温 (Mark Twain)内容梗概富家女和穷小子结婚后受尽折磨，父亲还被气死，最后被丈夫抛弃。

在她发现五岁儿子嗅觉超群之后，一个复仇计划在她心中渐渐成形。

推荐理由不按套路出牌的复仇故事，看似荒唐，却又让人难以放手，一气读完。

3.幽灵之屋(A Haunted House)作者弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙(Virginia Woolf)内容梗概一对幽灵夫妻在房子里飘荡，回忆他们生前的美好时光，并确认了对方对自己的爱。

推荐理由虽然是鬼故事，但却十分澄澈美好。

优美的语言具有抚慰人心的力量。

4.一间自己的屋子(A Room of One's Own)作者弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙(Virginia Woolf)内容梗概这本书的内容是伍尔夫在女子学院的两篇讲稿，以“妇女和小说”为主题，通过对女性创作的历史及现状的分析，指出女人应该有勇气有理智地去争取独立的经济力量和社会地位。

推荐理由“当我在我的脑子里搜索的时候，我发现我对于做别人的伴侣，做与别人相等的人，以及去影响这世界为了去达到更高的目的都没有什么高尚的感觉。

我只很简单很平凡地说，成为自己比什么都要紧。

”5.三个陌生人(The Three Strangers)作者托马斯·哈代(Thomas Hardy)内容梗概一个牧羊少年惊恐地睁大了双眼，从他的小棚屋中往外窥视一个女人和情人的幽会。

【VIP专享】英语短篇小说选读 Kate Chopin 凯特肖邦30

• Female consciousness: natural female consciousness including the pursuit for beauty and freedom, and the awareness of self-attractiveness, self-worthiness, selfexistence, self-esteem, self-enjoyment, and also the desire for intellectual, emotional and sexual fulfilment.
Ⅰ. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
• A woman ahead of her time
• She was an American author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century.
Ⅱ. LIFE
-- KATE Chopin was born Kate O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850 to Eliza and Thomas O'Flaherty.
-- SHE was the third of five children, but her sisters died in infancy and her brothers (from her father's first marriage) in their early twenties. She was the only child to live past the age of twenty-five.

《英语短篇小说选读》讲义(第四周)

Close-reading
Through what kind of ways did the author build the atmosphere? Find words or sentences in the story that create an atmosphere
Story 3 Discussion
☆Three years ago ☆Her aunt’s husband and two brothers ☆They went hunting for snipe with a little spaniel(西班牙猎犬) . They left through that very window, but they never returned because they were engulfed by a piece of bog（沼泽). Their bodies were never found. ☆Vera’s aunt believes that the men will return one day, that they will enter the house the way they left, through the open window. That is why the window is kept open every evening until dark; • “Do you know, sometimes on still, quiet evenings like this, I almost get a creepy feeling that they will all walk in through that window - "
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THE OPEN WINDOW

《英语短篇小说选读》讲义(第一周)(12英本2班) (1)

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A woman is sitting in her old, shuttered house. She knows that she is alone in the whole world; every other thing is dead. The doorbell rings.
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About the course
Expected duration: 16 weeks Overview Selected readings of English short stories is a class that uses famous short stories in both American and British literature to help students enhance their reading ability, get to know the cultures of foreign countries, and most importantly, master the basic literary criticism skills. Students in this course will focus on the function and significance of basic elements of the short stories upon various selected readings.

英语小说选读

英语小说选读文件编码（TTU-UITID-GGBKT-POIU-WUUI-0089）A&Pby John UpdikeIn walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. I'm in the third check-out slot, with my back to the door, so I don't see them until they're over by the bread. The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where the sun never seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her legs. I stood there with my hand on a box of HiHo crackers trying to remember if I rang it up or not. I ring it up again and the customer starts giving me hell. She's one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I know it made her day to trip me up. She'd been watching cash registers forty years and probably never seen a mistake before.By the time I got her feathers smoothed and her goodies into a bag -- she gives me a little snort in passing, if she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem -- by the time I get her on her way the girls had circled around the bread and were coming back, without a pushcart, back my way along the counters, in the aisle between the check-outs and the Special bins. They didn't even have shoes on. There was this chunky one, with the two-piece -- it was bright green and the seams on the bra were still sharp and her belly was still pretty pale so I guessed she just got it (the suit) -- there was this one, with one of those chubby berry-faces, the lips all bunched together under her nose, this one, and a tall one, with black hair that hadn't quite frizzed卷曲 right, and one of these sunburns right across under the eyes, and a chin that was too long -- you know, the kind of girl other girls think is very "striking" and "attractive" but never quite makes it, as they very well know, which is why they like her so much -- and then the third one, that wasn't quite so tall.She was the queen. She kind of led them, the other two peeking around and making their shoulders round. She didn't look around, not this queen, she just walked straight on slowly, on these long white prima donna（Italian, first lady）legs. She came down a little hard on her heels, as if she didn't walk in her bare feet that much, putting down her heels and then letting the weight move along to her toes as if she was testing the floor with every step, putting a little deliberate extra action into it. You never know for sure how girls' minds work (do you really think it's a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass jar)but you got the idea she had talked the other two into coming in here with her, and now she was showing them how to do it, walk slow and hold yourself straight.She had on a kind of dirty-pink - - beige maybe, I don't know -- bathing suit with a little nubble all over it and, what got me, the straps were down. They were off her shoulders looped loose around the cool tops of her arms, and I guess as a result the suit had slipped a little on her, so all around the top of the cloth there was this shining rim. If it hadn't been there you wouldn't have known there could have been anything whiter than those shoulders. With the straps pushed off, there was nothing between the top of the suit and the top of her head except just her, this clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted in the light. I mean, it was more than pretty.She had sort of oaky hair that the sun and salt had bleached, done up in a bun that was unravelling, and a kind of prim face. Walking into the A & P with your straps down, I suppose it's the only kind of face you can have. She held her head so high her neck, coming up out of those white shoulders, looked kind of stretched, but I didn'tmind. The longer her neck was, the more of her there was.She must have felt in the corner of her eye me and over my shoulder Stokesie in the second slot watching, but she didn't tip. Not this queen. She kept her eyes moving across the racks, and stopped, and turned so slow it made my stomach rub the inside of my apron, and buzzed to the other two, who kind of huddled against her for relief, and they all three of them went up the cat-and-dog-food-breakfast-cereal-macaroni-rice-raisins-seasonings-spreads-spaghetti-soft drinks- rackers-and- cookies aisle. From the third slot I look straight up this aisle to the meat counter, and I watched them all the way. The fat one with the tan sort of fumbled with the cookies, but on second thought she put the packages back. The sheep pushing their carts down the aisle -- the girls were walking against the usual traffic (not that we have one-way signs or anything) -- were pretty hilarious 非常滑稽的. You could see them, when Queenie's white shoulders dawned on them, kind of jerk, or hop, or hiccup打嗝, but their eyes snapped back to their own baskets and on they pushed. I bet you could set off dynamite in an A & P and the people would by and large keep reaching and checking oatmeal off their lists and muttering "Let me see, there was a third thing, began with A, asparagus, no, ah, yes, applesauce!" or whatever it is they do mutter. But there was no doubt, this jiggled them.A few house-slaves in pin curlers卷发夹子even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct.You know, it's one thing to have a girl in a bathing suit down on the beach, where what with the glare nobody can look at each other much anyway, and another thing in the cool of the A & P, under the fluorescent lights, against all those stacked packages, with her feet paddling along naked over our checkerboard green-and-cream rubber-tile floor."Oh Daddy," Stokesie said beside me. "I feel so faint.""Darling," I said. "Hold me tight." Stokesie's married, with two babies chalked up on his fuselage already, but as far as I can tell that's the only difference. He's twenty-two, and I was nineteen this April."Is it done" he asks, the responsible married man finding his voice. I forgot to say he thinks he's going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in 1990 when it's called the Great Alexandrov and Petrooshki Tea Company or something.What he meant was, our town is five miles from a beach, with a big summer colony out on the Point, but we're right in the middle of town, and the women generally put on a shirt or shorts or something before they get out of the car into the street. And anyway these are usually women with six children and varicose veins mapping their legs and nobody, including them, could care less. As I say, we're right in the middle of town, and if you stand at our front doors you can see two banks and the Congregational church and the newspaper store and three real-estate offices and about twenty-seven old free-loaders食客tearing up Central Street because the sewer broke again. It's not as if we're on the Cape; we're north of Boston and there's people in this town haven't seen the ocean for twenty years.The girls had reached the meat counter and were asking McMahon something. He pointed, they pointed, and they shuffled out of sight behind a pyramid of Diet Delight peaches. All that was left for us to see was old McMahon patting his mouth and looking after them sizing up their joints. Poor kids, I began to feel sorry for them, they couldn't help it.Now here comes the sad part of the story, at least my family says it's sad but I don't think it's sad myself. The store's pretty empty, it beingThursday afternoon, so there was nothing much to do except lean on the register and wait for the girls to show up again. The whole store was like a pinball machine and I didn't know which tunnel they'd come out of. After a while they come around out of the far aisle, around the light bulbs, records at discount of the Caribbean Six or Tony Martin Sings or some such gunk you wonder they waste the wax on, sixpacks of candy bars, and plastic toys done up in cellophane that fall apart when a kid looks at them anyway. Around they come, Queenie still leading the way, and holding a little gray jar in her hand. Slots Three through Seven are unmanned and I could see her wondering between Stokes and me, but Stokesie with his usual luck draws an old party in baggy gray pants who stumbles up with four giant cans of pineapple juice (what do these bums do with all that pineapple juice' I've often asked myself) so the girls come to me. Queenie puts down the jar and I take it into my fingers icy cold. Kingfish Fancy Herring Snacks in Pure Sour Cream: 49￠. Now her hands are empty, not a ring or a bracelet, bare as God made them, and I wonder where the money's coming from. Still with that prim look she lifts a folded dollar bill out of the hollow at the center of her nubbled pink top. The jar went heavy in my hand. Really, I thought that was so cute.Then everybody's luck begins to run out. Lengel comes in from haggling with a truck full of cabbages on the lot and is about to scuttle into that door marked MANAGER behind which he hides all day when the girls touch his eye. Lengel's pretty dreary, teaches Sunday school and the rest, but he doesn't miss that much. He comes over and says, "Girls, this isn't the beach."Queenie blushes, though maybe it's just a brush of sunburn I was noticing for the first time, now that she was so close. "My mother asked me to pick up a jar of herring snacks." Her voice kind of startled me, the way voices do when you see the people first, coming out so flat and dumb yet kind of tony, too, the way it ticked over "pick up" and"snacks." All of a sudden I slid right down her voice into her living room. Her father and the other men were standing around in ice-cream coats and bow ties and the women were in sandals picking up herring snacks on toothpicks off a big plate and they were all holding drinks the color of water with olives and sprigs of mint in them. When my parents have somebody over they get lemonade and if it's a real racy affair Schlitz in tall glasses with "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoons stencilled on."That's all right," Lengel said. "But this isn't the beach." His repeating this struck me as funny, as if it had just occurred to him, and he had been thinking all these years the A & P was a great big dune沙丘and he was the head lifeguard. He didn't like my smiling -- -as I say he doesn't miss much -- but he concentrates on giving the girls that sad Sunday- school-superintendent stare.Queenie's blush is no sunburn now, and the plump one in plaid, that I liked better from the back -- a really sweet can -- pipes up, "We weren't doing any shopping. We just came in for the one thing.""That makes no difference," Lengel tells her, and I could see from the way his eyes went that he hadn't noticed she was wearing a two-piece before. "We want you decently dressed when you come in here.""We are decent," Queenie says suddenly, her lower lip pushing, getting sore now that she remembers her place, a place from which the crowd that runs the A & P must look pretty crummy丰满的. Fancy Herring Snacks flashed in her very blue eyes."Girls, I don't want to argue with you. After this come in here with your shoulders covered. It's our policy." He turns his back. That's policy for you. Policy is what the kingpins want. What the others want is juvenile delinquency.All this while, the customers had been showing up with their carts but, you know, sheep, seeing ascene, they had all bunched up on Stokesie, whoshook open a paper bag as gently as peeling apeach, not wanting to miss a word. I could feel inthe silence everybody getting nervous, most of allLengel, who asks me, "Sammy, have you rung upthis purchase"I thought and said "No" but it wasn't aboutthat I was thinking. I go through the punches, 4, 9,GROC, TOT -- it's more complicated than you think,and after you do it often enough, it begins to makea little song, that you hear words to, in my case"Hello (bing)there, you (gung)hap-py pee-pul(splat)"-the splat being the drawer flying out. Iuncrease the bill, tenderly as you may imagine, itjust having come from between the two smoothestscoops of vanilla I had ever known were there, andpass a half and a penny into her narrow pink palm,and nestle the herrings in a bag and twist its neckand hand it over, all the time thinking.The girls, and who'd blame them, are in a hurry to get out, so I say "I quit" to Lengel quick enough for them to hear, hoping they'll stop and watch me, their unsuspected hero. They keep right on going, into the electric eye; the door flies open and they flicker across the lot to their car, Queenie and Plaid and Big Tall Goony-Goony（黑脚）信天翁 (not that as raw material she was so bad), leaving me with Lengel and a kink in his eyebrow."Did you say something, Sammy""I said I quit.""I thought you did.""You didn't have to embarrass them.""It was they who were embarrassing us."I started to say something that came out"Fiddle-de-doo." It's a saying of my grand- mother's, and I know she would have been pleased."I don't think you know what you're saying,"Lengel said."I know you don't," I said. "But I do." I pull the bow at the back of my apron and start shrugging itoff my shoulders. A couple customers that hadbeen heading for my slot begin to knock againsteach other, like scared pigs in a chute.Lengel sighs and begins to look very patient and old and gray. He's been a friend of my parentsfor years. "Sammy, you don't want to do this toyour Mom and Dad," he tells me. It's true, I don't.But it seems to me that once you begin a gestureit's fatal not to go through with it. I fold the apron,"Sammy" stitched in red on the pocket, and put iton the counter, and drop the bow tie on top of it.The bow tie is theirs, if you've ever wondered."You'll feel this for the rest of your life," Lengel says, and I know that's true, too, but remembering howhe made that pretty girl blush makes me soscrunchy inside I punch the No Sale tab and themachine whirs "pee-pul" and the drawer splats out.One advantage to this scene taking place insummer, I can follow this up with a clean exit,there's no fumbling around getting your coat andgaloshes, I just saunter into the electric eye in mywhite shirt that my mother ironed the night before,and the door heaves itself open, and outside thesunshine is skating around on the asphalt.I look around for my girls, but they're gone, ofcourse. There wasn't anybody but some youngmarried screaming with her children about somecandy they didn't get by the door of a powder-blueFalcon station wagon. Looking back in the bigwindows, over the bags of peat moss andaluminum lawn furniture stacked on the pavement,I could see Lengel in my place in the slot, checkingthe sheep through. His face was dark gray and hisback stiff, as if he'd just had an injection of iron,and my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard theworld was going to be to me hereafter.Who is the narrator Do you find him a reliable narratorWhat kind of person is Sammy? Find details in the story to support your idea.The plot of a short story revolves around the development of the conflict. What is the conflict of the story Find out the beginning, the rising action, the climax and the resolution of the conflict. To what extent does the conflict depend on different interpretations of such concepts as decency and policyDo you think the girls meant to cause trouble by coming to the story in bathing suits? What evidence is there for or against that? If the answer were/is yes? How would that affect the theme of the storyIs Sammy's quitting a form of rebellion or a statement of some sort Does it have any meaning What is he rebelling against Are there unconscious targets of his rebellion Who is the enemy here Are there any forms of oppression at work in the story Who is oppressed (or "embarrassed" for that matter) Is Sammy's standing up for the girls in some way a form of standing up for himselfOn what phenomena is Updike commenting in this short story What's the connection between sexual titillation, a chain grocery store, and a rebel without a cause What makes Sammy quit Why was he not so sad about it Why was the world going to be so difficult for him now Is Sammy fully aware of the character and implications of his gestureWhat tensions are at work in the story's situation What kind of business is the A&P What do the attitudes of the manager reveal about his character and that of the business that he manages What ethic is at work here (remember this is New England). Does the story take place in a traditional, capitalist, or mixed socioeconomic environment Keeping in mind that the story was first published in 1962, what social processes, tensions, and changes become evident from the situation described How does the girls' behavior relate to the issue of the changing faces and adaptations of capitalism Is this an example of unruly and promiscuous public cultureintruding into the sacred realm of the Puritan work ethic How is the statement, "Policy is what the kingpins want. What the others want is juvenile delinquency," related to these issuesIs the girls behavior itself a kind of statement or rebellion of some sort What message are they sending by walking into the A&P in their bathing suitsWhat messages do the girls send through the commodities which they pick Why is it significant that they choose a supermarket for their self-display What does this suggest regarding the character of the human body in a commercial society Are the girls' bodies in some way commodified in the supermarket environment Is this a willing choice or an effect of the environment they find themselves in What is significant about the language Sammy uses to describe the girls' bodies Why does the store manager oppose the girls' behavior Is this a technical (i.e. insurance considerations) or a moral issue for him Should he be more concerned with making his customers happy Are different sets of values clashing here Is the commodifying of the self presented in a sense as a sort of liberation from the oppression of traditional values Are there generational conflicts represented in the story Are those conflicts related to socioeconomic ones Are the younger generations pushing for different (more liberal) models of economic behaviorWhat social class issues/conflicts become apparent in the story Is Queenie an upper class girl What does Sammy think How does he imagine her life How does he contrast his own existence to that of Queenie Is Queenie her real name What does Sammy know for a fact about her What does her behavior reveal Why does Sammy imagine her to be of higher class How is that supposition related to his later actions What in a sense is he trying to achieve by impressing QueenieHow are sexuality and desire related to issues of class and socioeconomic status How are they related to issues of consumption and merchandising Is Sammy in a sense choosing a "commodity" which he'd like to consume How is that commodity related to his own socioeconomic positionWhat attitude do the male employees Sammy, Stokesie, and "old McMahon" take toward the three girls in bathing suits How does the following description of Stokes bring to mind Veblen's account of relations between the sexes: "Stokesie's married, with two babies chalked up on his fuselage already" (705) What's the point of Updike's description: "The whole store was like a pinball machine and I didn't know which tunnel they'd come out of."What sorts of things do we learn about the store and its products Why does Updike mention a "pyramid of Diet Delight peaches"What is the significance of the difference between and the different effects of fluorescent light and sunlight in the story How are the different types of light connected to different visions and ways of understanding What is the artificial light symbolic of What does Sammy realize as soon as he steps out of the store and into the sunshine Whatillusions/delusions was Sammy a victim of while inside the store What images await him in the outside How do they relate to Sammy's encounter with the girlsIs the consciousness of the author (Updike) the same as that of the narrator (Sammy) What does Updike suggest concerning Sammy's limitations of perception and understanding What does Updike know that Sammy doesn'tWhat does A & P symbolize?赠送常用精致线性可编辑小图标。

英语短篇小说选读OHenry欧亨利

►They sacrifice their own happiness even life for the lofty love and friendship; they help others without asking for rewards and regard it as a pleasure; they give up their own treasure and chance to others etc.
Major Works
Cabbages and Kings 白菜与国王
The Romance of a Busy Broker 证券经纪人的浪漫故事 The Gift of Magi 麦琪的礼物 The Last Leaf 最后一片叶子 A Cosmopolite in a Café 咖啡馆里的世界公民 Mammon and the Archer 财神和爱神 The Ransom of Red Chief 红色酋长的救赎 The Furnished Room 带家具出租的房间 The Cop and the Anthem 警察和赞美诗 A Retrieved Reformation 重新做人
Two men kidnap a boy of ten. The boy turns out to be so disgusting that the desperate men ultimately pay the boy's father $250 to take him back.
The Ransom of Red Chief
►In his works, O.Henry presents the panorama of the American people to readers with ironic and humorous tone.

《英语短篇小说选读》讲义(第十五周)

Irony
What Is Irony? Common forms
Review
What Is Irony?
Definition of Irony
Irony is a figure of speech that achieves emphasis by saying the opposite of what is meant, the intended meaning of the words being the opposite of their usual sense.
Situational Irony
situational irony
“It’s no use going to see little Hans in winter,” the miller used to say to his wife. “when people are in trouble we must leave them alone and not bother them, that is my idea of friendship and I am sure I am right. So I shall wait till spring comes, and then I shall visit him and he will give me a large bouquet of primrose, and that will make him very happy.” “You think so much about others,” said his wife. “it’s pleasure to hear what you say about friendship. I am sure the priest himself cannot say such beautiful things as you do, though he lives in a three-storeyed house, and wears a gold ring on his little finger.” (Oscar Wilder: The Devoted Friend)

优秀英语短篇小说集 10 篇,不看后悔哦~

优秀英语短篇小说集 10 篇，不看后悔哦~以下是一份包含10篇优秀英语短篇小说的精选集。

每个故事都引人入胜，希望你会喜欢！1. "The Secret Room"故事简介：一个年轻的探险家发现了一间隐藏的密室，里面隐藏着惊人的秘密。

2. "The Unexpected Journey"故事简介：一位幸运的旅行者在一次意外中发现了一条通往神秘世界的道路。

3. "Lost in the Woods"故事简介：一群朋友在森林迷路了，他们必须齐心合力才能找到回家的路。

4. "The Haunted House"故事简介：一对夫妇决定住进一座传说中闹鬼的房子，他们面临着各种令人毛骨悚然的事件。

5. "The Magical Necklace"故事简介：一个普通女孩意外发现了一条神奇的项链，她从此踏上了一段令人难以置信的冒险之旅。

6. "The Mysterious Stranger"故事简介：一个神秘的陌生人来到小镇，他的出现改变了所有人的生活。

7. "The Forgotten Diary"故事简介：一个年轻女孩在祖母的旧日记中发现了一个关于家族秘密的惊人发现。

8. "The Lost Treasure"故事简介：一群年轻人决定寻找传说中失落的宝藏，他们将面对许多挑战与危险。

9. "The Enchanted Garden"故事简介：一位女孩探索了她祖母的神奇花园，她发现了一个隐藏的世界。

10. "The Mirror of Truth"故事简介：一面魔镜能够揭示出真相，一位英勇的年轻人利用它来拯救他的国家。

以上是《优秀英语短篇小说集》中的10篇故事简介。

希望你会对这些故事充满兴趣，尽情享受阅读的乐趣！。

周末阅读：六篇超经典英文短文,几分钟就能读完!

今天，为大家推荐6篇短小精悍的英语短篇小说，这些作品篇篇经典，耐人寻味，读起来也不难。

关键是每篇阅读时长都不超过10分钟！这个周末有时间就读一两篇吧。

《入职介绍》Orientationby丹尼尔·奥罗斯科Daniel Orozco阅读时长：8分钟内容简介这篇带有荒诞色彩的短篇小说以独白的形式（monologue），讲述了一个新员工入职时被引导参观办公室的全过程，相信能引起职场小伙伴们的共鸣。

周目阅读：六篇超经典英文短文，几分钟就能读完！精彩选段小说的开篇是这样的：Those are the offices and these are the cubicles. That’s my cubicle there, and this is your cubicle. This is your phone. Never answer your phone. Let the Voicemail System answer it. This is your Voicemail SystemManual. There are no personal phone calls allowed.那边是领导的办公室，这边是员工的办公格子间。

那个格子间是我的，这个是你的。

这是你的座机。

电话你不用接，语音信箱系统会自动接听。

这是语音信箱系统的操作指南。

严禁电话私用。

之后，这位主管程式化的介绍慢慢变得私人化，开始八卦起员工们的私生活：Amanda Pierce, who tolerates Russell Nash, is in love with Albert Bosch, whose office is over there. Albert Bosch, who only dimly registers Amanda Pierce’s existence, has eyes only for Ellie Tapper, who sits over there. Ellie Tapper, who hates Albert Bosch, would walk through fire for Curtis Lance. But Curtis Lance hates Ellie Tapper.阿曼达·皮尔斯容忍着拉塞尔·纳什的示爱，却暗恋着那边办公室里的阿尔伯特·博施，后者基本上对阿曼达视而不见，他眼里只有坐在那边的艾丽·塔伯。

英语短篇小说选读 Ernest Hemingway 海明威

Iceberg Theory (冰山原则)
• Iceberg theory originated from a short speech of Hemingway: “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one eighth of it being above water． ”
Ernest Hemingway
Ⅰ. A Brief Introduction
Ⅱ. Life
Ⅲ. Major Works and Writing Style Ⅳ. Theme--A Clean and Well-lighted Place
Born
Ernest Miller Hemingway July 21, 1899 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
Ⅳ. Theme-- A Clean and Well-lighted Place
Theme is the central or dominating idea of a literary work, either implied or stated, regarding universal human behavior or condition. Author reveal themes through action and the thought of the characters as they respond to situation.
Spouse(s) Children
Four wives Jack, Patrick, Gregory
• Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century literature, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations.

短篇小说选读英语作文

短篇小说选读英语作文Title: Exploring the Depths of Short Stories: An English Essay。

Short stories, often succinct yet powerful narratives, provide a unique lens through which we can explore the complexities of human experiences and emotions. In this essay, we delve into the art of selected short stories in English literature, examining their themes, character development, and narrative techniques.One exemplary short story is "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. Set in a seemingly ordinary small town, Jackson's narrative gradually unveils the dark ritual of an annual lottery, where the winner faces a grim fate. Through meticulous storytelling and vivid imagery, Jackson exposes the inherent cruelty and conformity within society. The shocking twist at the end forces readers to confront uncomfortable truths about human nature and the dangers of blindly following tradition.Another compelling short story is "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor. O'Connor masterfully weaves elements of Southern Gothic literature with moral ambiguity and religious symbolism. The grandmother, a central character, embodies both innocence and manipulation as she leads her family towards a fatal encounter with a notorious criminal, The Misfit. Through gripping dialogue and a chilling climax, O'Connor challenges notions of goodness and grace, leaving readers pondering the complexities of redemption and moral accountability.In "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, the author plunges readers into the disturbed mind of an unnamed narrator who obsessively recounts their murder of an old man with a "vulture eye." Poe's mastery lies in his ability to create an atmosphere of palpable tension and psychological horror. The relentless beating of the heart beneath the floorboards serves as a metaphor for the guilt that consumes the narrator, blurring the lines between reality and madness. Through this tale of guilt and paranoia, Poe explores the fragility of the human psycheand the irrationality of fear.Moving beyond the realm of traditional narratives, Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" presents a minimalist yet profound exploration of communication and existential uncertainty. Set against the backdrop of a Spanish railway station, the story revolves around acouple's cryptic conversation about an impending abortion. Hemingway's sparse prose and understated dialogue invite readers to decipher the unspoken tensions and emotional complexities underlying the characters' relationship. By leaving much unsaid, Hemingway challenges readers to confront the ambiguity of human interactions and the elusive nature of truth.In conclusion, the selected short stories exemplify the rich tapestry of English literature, offering readers diverse insights into the human condition. Whether unraveling the dark underbelly of society, probing the depths of moral ambiguity, or exploring the nuances of interpersonal dynamics, these narratives resonate with timeless themes and enduring relevance. Through closeexamination of their themes, characters, and narrative techniques, we gain a deeper appreciation for the artistry and impact of short fiction in shaping our understanding of the world.。

英语短篇小说选读带翻译DinnerReservation

英语短篇小说选读带翻译Dinner ReservationDinner Reservation预订晚餐Mike and Maria had been living together in their apartment for one month already. To commemorate this event, they decided to go out and have a special dinner. Since Mike worked during the week and Maria went to school and worked as well, they planned it for the weekend. Mike and Maria had not decided on where to go yet. Maria had suggested a restaurant. Mike asked her which one. She did not have a specific location in mind.迈克和玛丽亚在他们的公寓一起生活一个月了。

为了纪念这一事件，他们决定出去吃一顿特别的晚餐。

在迈克工作和玛丽亚去上学同时工作的那段时间，他们就在计划着周末。

迈克和玛丽亚还没有决定去哪儿呢，玛丽亚建议去餐厅，迈克问她哪一个，她还没有想到一个理想的地方。

Maria suggested that they look on the internet to search for restaurants. Mike thought it a good idea and opened up his laptop. Mike turned on his laptop and went on Google to make a search. Mike always searched for information on Google. It never failed to provide good results. Mike asked Maria what he should search. Maria told him to search for nearby restaurants. Mike said to be more specific. Mike tried searching fine-dining restaurants. He got hundred of results.玛丽亚建议他们看在互联网上搜索餐馆，迈克认为它是个好主意并打开了他的手提电脑，电脑打开后，他就去谷歌展开搜索。

英语美文诵读经典作品

英语美文诵读经典作品1. 《了不起的盖茨比》——弗朗西斯·斯科特·基·菲茨杰拉德（F. Scott Fitzgerald）：这部小说以20世纪20年代的纽约和长岛为背景，描绘了一个追求爱情和成功的故事。

2. 《安妮日记》——安妮·弗兰克（Anne Frank）：这是一本日记，记录了一个年轻女孩在二战期间躲藏在荷兰阿姆斯特丹的隐秘场所中的生活。

3. 《杀死一只知更鸟》——哈珀·李（Harper Lee）：这部小说讲述了一个美国小镇上的种族歧视和正义的问题，描绘了一个律师和他的两个孩子如何对抗不公正的故事。

4. 《简爱》——夏洛蒂·勃朗特（Charlotte Brontë）：这是一部19世纪英国小说，讲述了一个年轻女孩追求自由和独立的故事。

5. 《傲慢与偏见》——简·奥斯汀（Jane Austen）：这部小说以19世纪英国为背景，描绘了一个贵族家庭的生活和社交场景，以及一个年轻女孩追求爱情和婚姻的故事。

6. 《红与黑》——司汤达（Stendhal）：这是一部19世纪法国小说，讲述了一个年轻男孩在巴黎和外省的生活经历，以及他与两个女性的情感纠葛。

7. 《战争与和平》——列夫·托尔斯泰（Leo Tolstoy）：这是一部19世纪俄国小说，描绘了拿破仑入侵期间的历史事件和人性的复杂性。

8. 《麦田里的守望者》——J. D. 塞林格（J. D. Salinger）：这部小说以一个美国高中男孩为主角，描绘了他的内心世界和对成人世界的反抗。

9. 《老人与海》——欧内斯特·海明威（Ernest Hemingway）：这是一篇短篇小说，讲述了一个老年渔夫与一条大鱼的斗争，表现了人的坚韧和毅力。

10. 《飘》——玛格丽特·米切尔（Margaret Mitchell）：这是一部20世纪初的美国小说，讲述了一个南北战争期间的爱情故事，描绘了当时的社会背景和人们的命运。

中学必读经典英文短篇小说《ABUSHDANCE》

中学必读经典英文短篇小说《ABUSHDANCE》A BUSH DANCEBy Henry Lawson “tap, tap, tap，”The little schoolhouse and residence in the scrub was lighted brightly in the mids t of the“close”,solid blackness of that moonless December night, when the sky a nd stars were smothered and suffocated by drought haze.It was the evening of the school children’s “Feast”. That is to say that the childre n had been sent, and“let go”，and the younger ones“fetched”through the blazin g heat to the school, one day early in the holidays, and raced—sometimes in co uples tied together by the legs—and caked, and bunned, and fnally improved u pon by the local Chadband, and got rid of.The schoolroom had been cleared fo r dancing, the maps rolled and tied, the desks and blackboards stacked against t he wall outside.T ea was over, and the trestles and boards, whereon had been spr ead better things than had been provided for the unfortunate youngsterhad bee n taken outside to keep the desks and blackboards company.On stools running end to end along one side of the room sat about twenty mor e or less blooming country girls of from ffteen to twenty odd.On the rest of the stools, running end to end along the other wall, sat about twe nty more or less blooming chaps.It was evident that something was seriously wrong. None of the girls spoke abov e a hushed whisper.None of the men spoke above a hushed oath.Now and again two or three sidled out, and if you had followed them you would have found t hat they went outside to listen hard into thedarkness and to swear.“tap, tap, tap.”The rows moved uneasily, and some of the girls turned pale faces nervously tow ards the side-door, in the direction of the sound.“tap—tap.”The tapping came from the kitchen at the rear of the teacher’s residence, and w as uncomfortably suggestive of a coffin being made：it was also accompanied b y a sickly, indescribable odour—more like that of warm cheap glue than anythin g else.In the schoolroom was a painful scene of strained listening. Whenever one of th e men returned from outside, or put his head in at the door, all eyes were fasten ed on him in the fash of a single eye, and then withdrawn hopelessly.At the soun d of a horse’s step all eyes and ears were on th e door, till some one muttered，‘It’s only the horses in the paddock.’Some of the girls’eyes began to glisten suspiciously, and at last the belle of th e party—a great, dark-haired, pink-and-white Blue Mountain girl, who had bee n sitting for a full minute staring before her, with blue eyes unnaturally bright, su ddenly covered her face with her hands, rose, and started blindly from the roo m, from which she was steered in a hurry by two sympathetic and rather‘upset’gi rl friends, and as she passed out she was heard sobbing hysterically—“Oh, I can’t help it！I did want to dance！It’s a sh-shame！I can’t help it！I—I want to dance！I rode twenty miles to dance—and—and I want to dance！”A tall, strapping young Bushman rose, without disguise, andfollowed the girl ou t. The rest began to talk loudly of stock, dogs, and horses, and other Bush thing s；but above their voices rang out that of the girl from the outside—being ma n comforted—“I can’t help it, Jack！I did want to dance！I—I had such—such—a job—to get mother—and—and father to let me come—and—and now！”The two girl friends came back. “He sez to leave her to him，”they whispered, i n reply to an interrogatory glance from the schoolmistress.“It’s—it’s no use, Jack！”came the voice of grief.“You don’t know w hat—what fat her and mother—is. I—I won’t—be able—to ge-get away—again—for—for—n ot till I’m married, perhaps.”The schoolmistress glanced uneasily along the row of girls.“I’ll take her into my room and make her lie down，”shewhispered to h er sister, who w as staying with her.“she’ll start some of the other girls presently —it’s just the weather for it，”and she passed out quietly. That schoolmistress w as a woman of penetration.A final “tap-tap”from the kitchen；then a sound like the squawk of a hurt or fri ghtened child, and the faces in the room turned quickly in that direction and bri ghtened. But there came a bang and a sound like“damn！”and hopelessness set tled down.A shout from the outer darkness, and most of the men and some of the girls ros e and hurried out. Fragments of conversation heard in the darkness—“It’s two horses, I tell you！”“It’s three, you—！”“Lay you—！”“Put the stuff up！”A clack of gate thrown open. “Who is it, Tom?”Voices from gatewards, yelling，“Johnny Mears！They’ve got Johnny Mears！”Then rose yells, and a cheer such as is seldom heard in scrub-lands.Out in the kitchen long Dave Regan grabbed, from the far side of the table, whe re he had thrown it, a burst and battered concertina, which he had been for the l ast hour vainly trying to patch and make air-tight；and, holding it out towards t he back-door, between his palms, as a football is held, he let it drop, and fetche d it neatly on the toe of his riding-boot. It was a beautiful kick, the concertina sh ot out into the blackness, from which was projected, in return, frst a short, sudde n howl, then a face with one eye glaring and the other covered by an enormou s brick-coloured hand, and a voice that wanted to know who shot‘that lurid loa f of bread?’But from the schoolroom was heard the loud, free voice of Joe Matthews, M. C.，“take yer partners！Hurry up！Take yer partners！They’ve got Johnn y Mears with his fddle！”。

英语短篇小说朗诵欣赏

英语短篇小说朗诵欣赏
英语短篇小说是英语研究中提高语感和阅读理解能力的重要途径。

通过朗诵欣赏，我们不仅可以感受到英语语言的韵律和语调，还可以深入理解故事情节和人物性格。

以下是一些推荐的英语短篇小说，可供朗诵欣赏：
1. The Gift of the Magi （《玛吉的礼物》）
这篇小说讲述了一个夫妻为了买对方圣诞礼物而做出的牺牲。

虽然他们最终没有收到自己想要的礼物，但他们的爱情更加坚定。

这是一篇温馨感人的故事。

2. The Necklace （《项链》）
这篇小说揭示了贪婪和虚荣心的危害，让我们深思自己的人生追求。

女主角因为虚荣而借款购买了一条昂贵的项链，却最终失去了它。

这个故事提醒我们要珍惜眼前的幸福，不要被物质追求所迷惑。

3. The Open Window （《敞开的窗户》）
这篇小说讲述了一个小男孩上门拜访一个新认识的女孩时所经
历的离奇经历。

女孩告诉他未婚妻和弟弟的死亡原因，却没有告诉
他实情。

这个故事既神秘又有趣，展示了人类想象力的奇妙之处。

以上三篇小说都极具推荐价值。

通过阅读和朗诵，我们可以加
深对英语文学的认识和理解，同时也能提高自己的表达和欣赏能力。

欢迎大家朗诵欣赏这些经典之作！。

短篇小说选读英语作文

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英语短篇美文朗诵3篇

英语短篇美文朗诵3篇随着全球经济一体化的发展,我国的教育和文化等方面也在不断地向前发展。

英语作为全球通用的语言,是不同国家的人们之间沟通的桥梁。

下面是店铺带来的英语短篇美文朗诵，欢迎阅读!英语短篇美文朗诵篇一Who’s whoIt has never been explained why university students seem to enjoy practical jokes more than anyone else. Students specialize in a particular type of practical joke: the hoax. Inviting the fire-brigade to put out a non-existent fire is a crude form of deception which no self-respecting student would ever indulge in, Students often create amusing situations which are funny to everyone except the victims. When a student recently saw two workmen using a pneumatic drill outside his university, he immediately telephoned the police and informed them that two students dressed up as workmen were tearing up the road with a pneumatic drill. As soon as he had hung up, he went over to the workmen and told them that if a policeman ordered them to go away, they were not to take him seriously. He added that a student had dressed up as a policeman and was playing all sorts of silly jokes on people. Both the police and the workmen were grateful to the student for this piece of advance information.The student hid in an archway nearby where he could watch and hear everything that went on. Sure enough, a policeman arrived on the scene and politely asked the workmen to go away. When he received a very rude reply from one of the workmen, he threatened to remove them by force. The workmen told him to do as he pleased and the policeman telephoned for help. Shortly afterwards, four more policemen arrived and remonstrated withthe workmen. As the men refused to stop working, the police attempted to seize the pneumatic drill. The workmen struggled fiercely and one of them lost his temper. He threatened to call the police. At this, the police pointed out ironically that this would hardly be necessary as the men were already under arrest. Pretending to speak seriously, one of the workmen asked if he might make a telephone call before being takento the station. Permission was granted and a policeman accompanied him to a call-box. Only when he saw that the man was actually telephoning the police did he realize that they had all been the victims of a hoax.谁也弄不清为什么大学生好像比任何人都更喜欢恶作剧。

《英语短篇小说选读》讲义(第三周)

Story 2 Discussion
Analysis on the plot unreliable narrative —paradox —exaggeration —unconventionality
—actual v.s. imagination
Story 2 Discussion
Analysis on the plot stages of the plot Crisis: part I—inverted order preparation for the execution
Omniscient point of view
• Definition: a narrator knows everything about all the characters. (all-knowing) • Such a narrator is free to move and to comment at will, and can tell us what characters say and do as well as their thoughts and feelings. • E.g. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
• Third-person narrator does not appear as a character in a story. • Third-person narrator may see into the minds of all characters, a single character, or none of the characters but merely describes events from the outside. • A) omniscient point of view • B) limited omniscient point of view • C) objective or dramatic point of view

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三一文库（）〔英文短篇小说,提供英语短篇小说在线阅读与下载!〕*篇一：《英语短篇小说选读》教学大纲《英语短篇小说选读》教学大纲作为一门选修课，《英语短篇小说选读》主要面向英语专业本、专科学生，同时兼顾非英语专业各科英语成绩优异并对英语文学感兴趣的学生。

本课程旨在通过引导学生仔细研读英语短篇小说，欣赏其精美的语言和深邃的思想，提高学生的语言素养，帮助学生了解西方的思想与文化，培养学生阅读、欣赏英语文学作品、撰写读后感和简短评论的能力。

课时安排：每周两次，每次两小时，共授课一学期使用教材：姜晓梅（编著）《英语小说名篇赏析》，世界图书出版公司，1999年10月，西安具体教学内容：Chapter1IWanttoKnowWhybySherwoodAndersonChapter2TheDarlingbyAntonChekhovChapter3ARoseforEmilybyWilliamFauknerChapter4TheSnowsofKilimanjarobyErnestHemingwayChapter5TheCapandtheAnthembyO.HeyChapter6ArabybyJamseJoyceChapter7TheMagicBarrelbyBernardMalamudChapter8LifeofMaParkerbyKatherineMansfieldChapter9TheNecklacebyGuydeMaupassantChapter10TheStoryofanHourbyKateChopin参考书目：叶华年《英语短篇小说导读—结构与理解》，华东师范大学出版社，1999《英国短篇小说选》（上、下），上海译文出版社，1982王佐良，刘承沛《美国短篇小说选》，商务印书馆，1984 *篇二：外国短篇小说选读分惊异，瞪大眼珠子看守着。

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