书名：41 Stories by O. Henry 欧亨利41个短篇英语小说故事 
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数870
作者：O. Henry
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2007
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451530530
商品尺寸：11.2 x 3.1 x 17.6 cm
包装：简装
页数：424

欧·亨利（O. Henry），原名威廉·西德尼·波特（William Sydney Porter），美国有名短篇小说家，与法国的莫泊桑、俄国的契诃夫并称为“世界三大短篇小说巨匠”。他的作品构思精巧，文字活泼生动，经常运用俚语、双关语、讹音、谐音和旧典新意，而且结局往往出人意料（即“欧·亨利式结尾”）；此外，其擅长以轻松幽默的语言来讲述悲剧故事，这种独特的创作风格被称为“含泪的微笑”。
本书精选了欧·亨利的41篇短篇小说代表作，包含The Gift of the Magi《麦琪的礼物》和The Furnished Room《带家具出租的房间》等名篇，适合有一定英文水平的读者阅读。
Readers the world over recognize O. Henry as the best short story writer of the early twentieth century.Even today a masterful surprise at the end of a story is described as“anO. Henry twist,” and a prominent short fiction award bears his name.Widely known as a master of irony, O. Henry also displayed in his stories dazzling wordplay and a wry combination of pathos and humor. Including his famous work, such asThe Gift of the Magi andThe Furnished Room, this collection of forty-one stories demonstrates his extraordinary technical genius. Cunningly arranged according to geographic location, these tales display the wide range ofO. Henry’s world, from the streets of his beloved New York City to exotic locales south of the border. With his wonderful plot turns, unexpected climaxes, and deep insights into human nature, O. Henry’s work will live on as prime examples of well-told tales.

欧亨利有名作家的短篇小说经典文集，包括《麦琪的礼物》和《带家具的出租屋》等经典小说。
A classic anthology of short fiction by the acclaimed author gathers concise stories about New York City, confidence men, hoboes, the West, South America, and the American South, including such famed works as “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Furnished Room.”

O. Henry欧亨利，原名为威廉·西德尼·波特（William Sydney Porter）。美国有名批判现实主义作家，世界三大短篇小说大师之一。曾被评论界誉为曼哈顿桂冠散文作家和美国现代短篇小说之父。他的作品构思新颖，语言诙谐，结局常常出人意外，代表作有小说集《白菜与国王》《四百万》《命运之路》等。其中一些名篇如《爱的牺牲》《警察与赞美诗》《带家具出租的房间》、《麦琪的礼物》等使他获得了世界声誉。
O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), was born in Greensboro, North California. Young Porter went to work in a drugstore at age fifteen. Later he traveled to Texas to work on a ranch and spent ten years in Austin, where he married, worked as a bank teller, and purchased a weekly newspaper, The Rolling Stone.But the paperfailed and in 1894, Porter was accused of embezzling bank funds. Eventually, he fled to Honduras and returned only in 1897 to be with his dying wife. Committed to a federal penitentiary in Ohio, he began writing under the name O. Henry.Following his release in 1901, he lived in New York City. A prolific writer, often turning out a story a week, he kept his real identity a secret as his fame grew. His first book,Cabbages and Kings, appearedin 1904 and was followed bythirteenother collections.His stories, whichhave been translated and read all over the world, areso popular that they have never gone out of print.
Burton Raffelhas taught English, Classics, and Comparative Literature at universities in the United States, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations of Beowulf;The Essential Horace: Odes, Epodes, Epistles, Satires; The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar; Poems From the Old English and The Annotated Milton;as well asseveral critical studies, includingIntroduction to Poetry, and The Forked Tounge: A Study of the Translation Process. 
Laura Furman, professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and a Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of two novels, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. Her fiction, essays, and journalism have appeared inThe New Yorker,Southwest Review,Yale Review,The American Scholar,Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Since 2002, she has been serieseditor of the O. Henry Prize Stories. 

Introduction
THE BIG CITY
The Social Triangle
Tobin’s Palm
The Last Leaf
Schools and Schools
Springtime a la Carte
Best-Seller
TheGift of the Magi
The Green Door
Transients in Arcadia
Brickdust Row
The Enchanted Profile
The Furnished Room
CON MEN AND BOBOES
Shearing the Wolf
Hostages to Momus
A Retrieved Reformation
The Higher Pragmatism
Conscience in Art
The Ethics of Pig
Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet
A Tempered Wind
THE WILD WEST AND THE TAME WEST
Telemachus, Friend
The Caballaro’s Way
Friends in San Rosario
The Sphinx Apple
The princess and the Puma
A Chaparral Prince
The Enchanted Kiss
The Lonesome Road
The Hiding of Black Bill
Hygeia at the Solito
OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH: DOMESTIC
“The Roseof Dixie”
Cherchez la Femme
The Fool-Killer
The Momentof Victory
OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH:FOREIGH
Two Renegades
He Also Serves
The Lotus and the Bottle
The Shamrock and the Palm
Shoes
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
The Fourth in Salvador
Afterword