书名：Fifty Great Short Stories 50篇优秀短篇小说
作者：Milton Crane
出版社名称：Bantam Classics
出版时间：2005
语种：英文
ISBN：9780553277456
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.5 x 17.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：572

Fifty Great Short Stories《50篇优秀短篇小说》书中共收录了世界著名作家的经典短篇小说50篇，适合英文原版书入门读者，希望通过阅读提高英语词汇量及爱好英语文学作品的读者。
推荐理由：
1.《50篇优秀短篇小说》收录的小说大都是名家之作，包可以从中学到优秀的英语表达；
2.世界短篇小说集锦，英文原版无删减，语言地道流畅；
3.作品内容包罗万象，每一篇都值得思考体会；
4.轻型纸印刷，小巧轻便，方便随身携带阅读。
The sudden unforgettable revelation of character; the vision of a world through another’s eyes; the glimpse of truth; the capture of a moment in time.
All this is the short story, at its best, is uniquely capable of conveying, for in its very shortness lies its greatest strength.
It can discover depths of meaning in the casual word or action; it can suggest in a page what could not be stated in a volume.
Such is the quality of experience offered you, in many and diverse ways, by the fifty stories which make up this book.

Fifty Great Short Stories《50篇优秀短篇小说》作品内容包罗万象，每一篇都匠心独运、令人回味无穷，抑或包含着深刻的哲理，需要我们去深思。书中收录了世界著名作家海明威、契诃夫、霍桑、莫泊桑、欧亨利、爱伦坡等的经典短篇小说作品。
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. He is the author of several books and articles on English literature, as well as the editor of the Bantam anthology, 50 Great American Short Stories.
米尔顿·克兰是乔治·华盛顿大学及芝加哥大学英语语言文学退休教授。著有大量英国文学相关书籍及文章。同时，希尔顿·克兰是《50篇优秀短篇小说》一书的编者。

The Garden Party—Katherine Mansfield《花园茶会》——凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德
The Three-Day Blow—Ernest Hemingway《三天大风》——欧内斯特·海明威
The Standard of Living—Dorothy Parker《生活的标准》——多萝西·帕克
The Saint—V. S. Pritchett《圣徒》——普里彻特
The Other Side of the Hedge—E. M. Forster《篱笆的另一面》——爱德华·摩根·福斯特
Brooksmith—Henry James《布鲁克·史密斯》——亨利·詹姆斯
The Jockey—Carson McCullers《骑师》——卡森·麦卡勒斯
The Courting of Dinah Shadd—Rudyard Kipling《黛娜·谢德的求爱》——鲁德亚德·吉卜林
The Shot—Alexander Poushkin(translated by T. Keane)《普希金》——亚历山大·普希金（基恩译）
Graven Image—John O’Hara《表演者》——约翰·奥哈拉
Putois—Anatole France(translated by Frederic Chapman)  Putois——阿纳托尔·法郎士（弗雷德里克·查普曼译）
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn—Thomas Wolfe《唯有死者认识布鲁克林》——托马斯·沃尔夫
A. V. Laider—Max Beerbohm《雷德》——麦克斯·毕尔邦
The Lottery—Shirley Jackson《摸彩》——雪莉·杰克逊
The Masque of the Red Death—Edgar Allan Poe《红死病的假面具》——埃德加·爱伦坡
Looking Back—Guy de Maupassant (translated by H. N. P. Sloman)《回首》——莫泊桑（斯洛曼译）
The Man Higher Up—O. Henry《黄雀在后》—— 欧·亨利
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse—William Saroyan《那年夏天美丽的白马》——威廉·萨洛扬
The Other Two—Edith Wharton《另外两个》——伊迪丝·华顿
Theft—Katherine Anne Porter《偷窃》——凯瑟琳·安·波特
A Good Man Is Hard to Find—Flannery O’Connor《好人难寻》——弗兰纳里·奥康纳
The Man of the House—Frank O’Connor《男人当家》——弗兰纳里·奥康纳
The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles—Edmund Wilson《那个射杀麝香龟的人》——爱德蒙·威尔逊
The Gioconda Smile—Aldous Huxley《不可思议的微笑》——奥尔德斯·赫胥黎
The Curfew Tolls—Stephen Vincent Benét《花逝之地》——斯蒂芬·文森特·贝尼特
Father Wakes Up the Village—Clarence Day《父亲唤醒了村庄》——克劳伦斯·戴伊
Ivy Day in the Committee Room—James Joyce《会议室里的常春藤日》——詹姆斯·乔伊斯
The Chrysanthemums—John Steinbeck《菊花》——约翰·斯坦贝克
The Door—E. B. White《门》——埃尔文·布鲁克斯·怀特
An Upheaval—Anton Chekhov《动荡》——契诃夫
How Beautiful with Shoes—Wilbur Daniel Steele《穿上鞋子的你多么迷人》——威尔伯·丹尼尔·斯蒂尔
A Haunted House—Virginia Woolf《鬼屋》——弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫
The Catbird Seat—James Thurber《胜券在握》——詹姆斯·瑟伯
The Schartz-Metterklume Method—“Saki” (H. H. Munro)《Schartz-Metterklume方法》——芒罗
The Death of a Bachelor—ArthurSchnitzler《单身汉之死》——亚瑟·施尼茨勒
The Apostate—George Milburn《叛教者》——乔治·米尔本
The Phoenix—Sylvia Townsend Warner《凤凰》——西尔维亚·汤森·沃纳
That Evening Sun—William Faulkner《晚上的太阳》——威廉·福克纳
The Law—Robert M. Coates《法律》——罗伯特·科茨
The Tale—Joseph Conrad《传说》——约瑟夫·康拉德
A Girl from Red Lion, P.A.—H. L. Mencken《那个红狮上的女孩》——亨利·路易斯·门肯
Main Currents of American Thought—Irwin Shaw《美国思想的主要流派》——欧文·肖
The Ghosts—Lord Dunsany《鬼魂》——洛德·邓萨尼
The Minister’s Black Veil—Nathaniel Hawthorne《牧师的黑面纱》——纳撒尼尔·霍桑
.A String of Beads—W. Somerset Maugham《串珠》——威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆
The Golden Honeymoon—Ring Lardner《金色的蜜月》——拉德纳
The Man Who Could Work Miracles—H. G. Wells《创造奇迹的人》——赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯
The Foreigner—Francis Steegmuller《异邦人》——弗朗西斯·斯蒂格马勒
Thrawn Janet—Robert Louis Stevenson《丑陋的珍妮特》——罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森
The Chaser—John Collier《猎人》——约翰·科立尔
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Author Index作者索引
AND AFTER all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine. As for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. Hundreds, yes, literally hundreds, had come out in a single night; the green bushes bowed down as though they had been visited by archangels.
Breakfast was not yet over before men came to put up the marquee.
“Where do you want the marquee put, mother?”
“My dear child, it’s no use asking me. I’m determined to leave everything to you children this year. Forget I am your mother. Treat me as an honoured guest.”
But Meg could not possibly go and supervise the men. She had washed her hair before breakfast, and she sat drinking her coffee in a green turban, with a dark wet curl stamped on each cheek. Jose, the butterfly, always came down in a silk petticoat and a kimono jacket.
“You’ll have to go, Laura; you’re the artistic one.”
Away Laura flew, still holding her piece of bread-and-butter. It’s so delicious to have an excuse for eating out of doors and besides, she loved to arrange things; she always felt she could do it so much better than anybody else.