英语超短篇小说推荐

A. 英语短篇小说

英语短篇小说

Appointment With Love --By Sulamith Ish-Kishor

Six minutes to six, said the great round clock over the information booth in Grand Central Station. The tall young Army lieutenant who had just come from the direction of the tracks lifted his sunburned face, and his eyes narrowed to note the exact time. His heart was pounding with a beat that shocked him because he could not control it. In six minutes, he would see the woman who had filled such a special place in his life for the past 13 months, the woman he had never seen, yet whose written words had been with him and sustained him unfailingly.
He placed himself as close as he could to the information booth, just beyond the ring of people besieging the clerks...
Lieutenant Blandford remembered one night in particular, the worst of the fighting, when his plane had been caught in the midst of a pack of Zeros. He had seen the grinning face of one of the enemy pilots.
In one of his letters, he had confessed to her that he often felt fear, and only a few days before this battle, he had received her answer: "Of course you fear...all brave men do. Didn't King David know fear? That's why he wrote the 23rd Psalm. Next time you doubt yourself, I want you to hear my voice reciting to you: 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for Thou art with me.'" And he had remembered; he had heard her imagined voice, and it had renewed his strength and skill.
Now he was going to hear her real voice. Four minutes to six. His face grew sharp.
Under the immense, starred roof, people were walking fast, like threads of color being woven into a gray web. A girl passed close to him, and Lieutenant Blandford started. She was wearing a red flower in her suit lapel, but it was a crimson sweet pea, not the little red rose they had agreed upon. Besides, this girl was too young, about 18, whereas Hollis Meynell had frankly told him she was 30. "Well, what of it?" he had answered. "I'm 32." He was 29.
His mind went back to that book - the book the Lord Himself must have put into his hands out of the hundreds of Army library books sent to the Florida training camp. Of Human Bondage, it was; and throughout the book were notes in a woman's writing. He had always hated that writing-in habit, but these remarks were different. He had never believed that a woman could see into a man's heart so tenderly, so understandingly. Her name was on the bookplate: Hollis Meynell. He had got hold of a New York City telephone book and found her address. He had written, she had answered. Next day he had been shipped out, but they had gone on writing.
For 13 months, she had faithfully replied, and more than replied. When his letters did not arrive she wrote anyway, and now he believed he loved her, and she loved him.
But she had refused all his pleas to send him her photograph. That seemed rather bad, of course. But she had explained: "If your feeling for me has any reality, any honest basis, what I look like won't matter. Suppose I'm beautiful. I'd always be haunted by the feeling that you had been taking a chance on just that, and that kind of love would disgust me. Suppose I'm plain (and you must admit that this is more likely). Then I'd always fear that you were going on writing to me only because you were lonely and had no one else. No, don't ask for my picture. When you come to New York, you shall see me and then you shall make your decision. Remember, both of us are free to stop or to go on after that - whichever we choose..."
One minute to six - Lieutenant Blandford's heart leaped higher than his plane had ever done.
A young woman was coming toward him. Her figure was long and slim; her blond hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears. Her eyes were blue as flowers, her lips and chin had a gentle firmness. In her pale green suit, she was like springtime come alive.
He started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was wearing no rose, and as he moved, a small, provocative smile curved her lips.
"Going my way, soldier?" she murmured.
Uncontrollably, he made one step closer to her. Then he saw Hollis Meynell.
She was standing almost directly behind the girl, a woman well past 40, her graying hair tucked under a worn hat. She was more than plump; her thick-ankled feet were thrust into low-heeled shoes. But she wore a red rose in the rumpled lapel of her brown coat.
The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away.
Blandford felt as though he were being split in two, so keen was his desire to follow the girl, yet so deep was his longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned and upheld his own; and there she stood. Her pale, plump face was gentle and sensible; he could see that now. Her gray eyes had a warm, kindly twinkle.
Lieutenant Blandford did not hesitate. His fingers gripped the small worn, blue leather of Of Human Bondage, which was to identify him to her. This would not be love, but it would be something precious, something perhaps even rarer than love - a friendship for which he had been and must ever be grateful.
He squared his broad shoulders, saluted and held the book out toward the woman, although even while he spoke he felt shocked by the bitterness of his disappointment.
"I'm Lieutenant John Blandford, and you - you are Miss Meynell. I'm so glad you could meet me. May...may I take you to dinner?"
The woman's face broadened in a tolerant smile. "I don't know what this is all about, son," she answered. "That young lady in the green suit - the one who just went by - begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said that if you asked me to go out with you, I should tell you that she's waiting for you in that big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of a test. I've got two boys with Uncle Sam myself, so I didn't mind to oblige you."

B. 英语短篇小说

经典英语短篇小说推荐如下：
1、密西西比河上的马戏团男孩 The Circus Boys On the M
简介： 本书是1910-1920出版的一套儿童系列丛书中的一本，讲述了两个男孩离家加入马戏团的故事。达灵顿先生用大师之笔，向我们描绘了马戏团生活的真实画面。...
2、Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
In 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time. A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November 14, 1889...
3、The Aspern Papers
简介： With a decaying Venetian villa as a backdrop, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest for the personal documents of a deceased Romantic poet, one Jeffrey Aspern. Led by his mission into increasingly unscrupulous behavior, he is ul...
4、At the Back of the North Wind
There was once a little boy named Diamond and he slept in a low room over a coach house. In fact, his room was just a loft where they kept hay and straw and oats for the horses. Little Diamonds father was a coachman and he had named his boy..

C. 有什么英语短篇小说推荐

1. “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor

Few short stories have stuck with us as much as this one, which is probably O'Connor's most famous work — and with good reason. The Misfit is one of the most alarming serial killers we've ever met, all the more so for his politeness, and the story’s moral is so striking and terrifying that — whether you subscribe to the religious undertones or not — a reader is likely to finish and begin to reexamine their entire existence. Or at least we did, the first time we read it.
《好人难寻》这篇小说是奥康纳最为著名的作品，很少有其他短篇小说能像这篇一样给我们带来震撼。无论你是否能明了宗教般的潜在含义，看完这篇小说读者都会开始或是结束对存在的检视。

2. “The School,” Donald Barthelme

This story is very short, but pretty much perfect in every way. Though Barthelme is known for his playful, post modern style, we admire him for his ability to shape a world so clearly from so few words, chosen expertly. Barthelme never over explains, never uses one syllable too many, but effortlessly leads the reader right where he wants her to be. It's funny, it's absurdist, it's sad, it's enormous even in its smallness. It may be this writer’s favorite story of all time. You should read it.
这篇小说很短，但是堪称完美。巴塞尔姆的优秀就在于他能用精选的极少几个文字就为我们叙述了一个世界。他很少过多地解释，就把读者带到了他想要你去地方。

3. “In The Penal Colony,” Franz Kafka

Kafka called this one his“dirty story,”and thought it imperfect, but it's one of our favorites of his (though we also recommend “The Hunger Artist”and“A Country Doctor”). It's so obviously a story about writing, in some ultimate way — a machine punishes its victims by writing on them over and over until their bodies give out — but its as if, while the body is the source of every problem in the tale, every weakness, it is also the only place where true knowledge can be translated.
卡夫卡称自己的这篇小说是一个“很脏的故事”，认为并不完美，但是这个短篇确实我们的最爱之一。在小说中，我们可以体会到，身体是一切问题和弱点的根源，但身体也是唯一能转化真知的地方。

4. “Signs and Symbols,”Vladimir Nabokov

Another short one, we revere this story for its ability to turn every tiny detail into a portentous disaster, not to mention the fact that it's penned in Nabokov's effortlessly gorgeous, silvery prose. An old Jewish couple goes to visit their son in the mental hospital, only to be turned away because he has attempted to kill himself. And that's it, really. They go home and look though a photo album, eat some jam. The phonerings. But the whole thing is, perhaps, both a comment on the nature of insanity and the nature of the short story itself, with all its rules and strangeness and banality. And all its symbols, of course.
我们喜欢这篇小说的原因就在于，这个故事有能力把每个细微的细节瞬间变为一场灾难，而Nabokov在写这篇小说用的是轻松华丽水银泻地般的散文风格。

5. “Gooseberries,” Anton Chekhov

Chekhov's stories are indisputably among the greats, and this one, written rather late, is one of our favorites. Chekhov probes at both the frailty and the worth of humanity, not to mention the natureof life, both for the fortunate and the unfortunate. But like most of Chekhov's stories, there's no clear moral, there's no obvious takeaway. Some men sit around and discuss their thoughts, and we listen, mulling over the subtleties for ourselves.
契科夫的小说无疑是最伟大的作品之一，而这篇是我们的最爱。这篇小说像他的其他小说一样，没有清晰的道德标准，我们只是静静地看着几个人围坐着，讨论他们的思想。

6. “Sea Oak,” George Saunders

“Sea Oak” is Saunders's favorite of his own stories, we've heard, so because we find it so hard to choose among them, we've included it here on his own recommendation. Absurdist and satirical, and including at least one zombie shouting at her housemates to get laid, it's a weird one. But it's also concerned with placelessness, with family, with poverty, and like all of Saunders's stories, has a good, thumping heart under all that darkness and fun-poking.

这部小说是桑德斯最为喜爱的一步短篇，这也是我们听说的。因为我们很难做出选择，因此就把他自己的推介放在了这里。这部小说充满了荒诞和讽刺，但是也关心家庭和贫穷等问题。像他的其他小说一样，在黑暗和取笑中，也暗含着美好和快乐。

7. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” Ursula K. LeGuin

LeGuin's parabolic tale, which won the Hugo Award for best short story in 1974, is a weird, spacious story about a city that seems to be a utopia — except for its one flaw, the single child that must always be kept in darkness and wretched misery so that the others may all live happily. Most of the citizens eventually accept this, but some do not, and silently leave the city, vanishing into the world around. Strange but pointed, Le Guin is a master of her genre.
勒古这部寓言般的短篇小说获得过1974年的“雨果奖”，是关于一个类似乌托邦的城市的荒诞又宏大的故事。

8. “The Veldt,” Ray Bradbury

This tale, from one of the greatest science fiction writers in history, is deliciously wicked. Though it was written in 1950, this kind of story — of children driven mad by want, of technology turning on its masters — will never get old. Until technology actually turns on us, that is. Then we probably won't want to hear about it.
布莱伯利作为历史上最富盛名的科幻小说家，这篇小说也是通过精心编写的。

9. “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” Alice Munro

The undisputed queen of the short story, Alice Munro’s work is stark and often heartbreakingly raw, and this story of memory loss and the aching tenderness of human interaction is no different. Fun fact: this story was adapted into the film “Away from Her”, starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent.

门罗是毫无争议的短篇小说女王，她的作品有一种朴实风格，常常带着心跳般的粗犷，这篇关于丧失记忆以及人类互动中的痛苦和柔弱的小说也不例外。

10. “The Nose,” Nikolai Gogol

Gogol might be the oldest writer on this list, but he’s also one of the weirdest — in a good way. Nabokov once wrote, “In Gogol…the absurd central character belongs to the absurd world around him but, pathetically and tragically, attempts to struggle out of it into the world of humans — and dies in despair.” What else can an absurd noseless man do, after all?
果戈里应该是这个书单上最久远的作家了，但是他也是最荒诞的小说家之一。纳博科夫曾近这样写道：“在果戈里的作品中，荒诞的人物属于他周围荒诞的世界，但是却可怜兮兮且悲惨地要逃离他的世界，最终死于绝望”。

D. 值得一看的英文小说介绍

在世界文学史上,英文小说是最重要的组成部分之一,而且英语作为世界上使用范围最广的语言,许多国家和地区的文学作品都是以英文出版的。以下是我介绍给大家的关于值得一看的英文小说，希望大家喜欢!

值得一看的英文小说介绍:
1、慢人

J.M.库切 著

浙江文艺出版社

邹海伦 译

2013-3

《慢人》(J.M.库切著)是库切获诺贝尔文学奖后的第一部小说。这部关于年老、残缺、身份、死亡和羞耻的现实主义小说，在中段嬗变为一本后现代小说，作者与其笔下的人物在其中对决。而作者介入小说的元小说模式也延续了库切在《耻》中探讨的“越界”问题：《耻》里写的是对政治、社会和个人界限的超越;而《慢人》则是对“作者式殖民”的一种反抗。

2、当我们谈论安妮·弗兰克时我们谈论什么

内森•英格兰德 著

上海文艺出版社

李天奇

2014-6-20

《当我们谈论安妮·弗兰克时我们谈论什么》(内森·英格兰德著，李天奇译)避开了惯常的欧美视角，从犹太人内部出发，用爆笑的幽默感——有时甚至不合时宜、但恰恰又因为不合时宜反而带来一种令读者不安的奇效——和极具洞察力的道德故事探讨宗教、身份、伦理、历史等诸多严肃、基本又略显宏大的主题。

3、猫的摇篮

库尔特·冯内古特 著

译林出版社

刘珠还 译

2006

《猫的摇篮》(库尔特·冯内古特著，刘珠还译)是美国后现代小说家冯内古特的第四部小说。叙事者为撰写一本有关广岛原子弹爆炸当日发生事件的书，寻访了原子弹之父霍尼克尔博士的同事和亲戚。小说以黑色幽默的手法讲述了这个荒诞、离奇又可怕的故事，反思科学技术的滥用如何反过来毁灭了人类自己。

4、纽约三部曲

保罗·奥斯特 著

浙江文艺出版社

文敏 译

2007-3

《纽约三部曲》(保罗·奥斯特著，文敏译)是保罗·奥斯特的小说处女作。寻找一个失踪的人，跟踪、解开一段往昔岁月的谜题——三个彼此关联、非传统的形而上的侦探小说，其主角真正要面对的是存在主义式的、关于自身身份的难解之谜。

5、盲刺客

玛格丽特·阿特伍德 著

上海译文出版社

韩忠华 译

2012-3-1

《盲刺客》(玛格丽特·阿特伍德著，韩忠华译)获2000年布克奖，是玛格丽特·阿特伍德最精彩的小说，展现了她构建多重叙事和多重时间的卓越能力。

6、九故事

J.D.塞林格

人民文学出版社

李文俊 / 何上峰 译

2010.06

《九故事》(J. D. 塞林格著，李文俊、何上峰译)以兼具天真和荒诞的少年视角探讨婚姻生活、少年成长、母子关系、战争、艺术、天才甚至小说创作本身等诸多主题。极少对人物、事物或其因果逻辑进行评断，而只呈现故事本身。

7、自由国度

V.S.奈保尔 著

南海出版公司

吴正 译

2013-11

《自由国度》(V.S.奈保尔著，吴正译)获1971年布克奖，由三个短篇小说和两篇“旅行日记”组成，围绕“自由”这个主题，在殖民/后殖民的语境中，对“何为真正的自由、如何获得真正的自由”，对殖民主义进行了深刻的反思，并探讨了远离故土的异乡人的身份迷思。

8、关于美

扎迪·史密斯 著

人民文学出版社

杨佩桦 / 聂清风 译

2008-10

《关于美》(扎迪·史密斯著，杨佩桦、聂清风译)作者是英国文坛新秀，她擅于融合不同人的叙事声音，以经常令人捧腹大笑的幽默或堪称尖刻的讽刺赋予了小说一种现代的韵味。

9、拉合尔茶馆的陌生人

莫欣·哈米德 著

上海译文出版社

吴刚 译

2009-1

《拉合尔茶馆的陌生人》(莫欣·哈米德著，吴刚译)是后“9·11”小说中最精彩的一部。这本仅有178页的小说是一篇独白，唯一的叙事声音来自一位在美国上学、工作、后来又返回故乡的巴基斯坦人。通过他的眼光，小说审视了一个不愿对痛苦进行反思的社会，并以镜像式的爱情故事，杂糅两性关系与身份、历史、记忆、宗教，以轻盈的叙事寓言般诉说着沉重的主题。

10、终结的感觉

朱利安·巴恩斯 著

译林出版社

郭国良 译

2012-7

《终结的感觉》(朱利安·巴恩斯著，郭国良译)获2011年布克奖，是对时间(主观的时间及客观的时间)、历史(尤其是个人史)、死亡(以及加缪所说的、唯一真正的哲学问题：自杀)和叙事本身的一次沉思。它更是一本记忆之书，对于人如何记忆、时间如何影响记忆、记忆又如何反过来影响时间，记忆的不可靠性以及历史、尤其是个人史如何书写作了有力的反思。
20世纪最佳中文小说推荐：
1. 戴思杰《巴尔札克与小裁缝》(Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress)

2. 韩少功《马桥辞典》(A Dictionary of Maqiao)

3. J.G. 巴拉德《太阳帝国》(Empire of the Sun)

4. 麦家《解密》(Decoded)

5. 裘小龙《石库门骊歌》(When Red is Black)

6. 吴明益《复眼人》(The Man with the Compound Eyes)

7. 李翊云《漂泊者》(The Vagrants)

8. 闵安琪《毛夫人》(Becoming Madame Mao)

9. 鲁迅《阿Q正传》(The Real Story of Ah Q and Other Tales of China)

10. 余华《活着》(To Live)

11. 张爱玲《倾城之恋》(Love in a Fallen City)

12. 莫言《红高粱家族》(Red Sorghum)

13. 钱钟书《围城》(Fortress Besieged)

14. 迟子建《额尔古纳河右岸》(The Last Quarter of the Moon)

15. 老舍《猫城记》(Cat Country)

16. 赛珍珠《大地》(The Good Earth)

17. 阎连科《丁庄梦》(Dream of the Ding Village)

18. 马建《拉面者》(The Noodle Maker)

19. 盛可以《北妹》(Northern Girls)

20. 陈希我《冒犯书》(The Book of Sins)

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E. 有哪些好看的短篇英文小说

世界三大短篇小说之王

莫泊桑、契诃夫和欧~亨利

莫泊桑（Maupassant1850～1893）19世纪后半期法国优秀的批判现实主义作家。年仅43年生命历程竟创作了6部长篇小说和356多篇中短篇小说，莫泊桑短篇小说布局结构精巧合理。典型细节选用真实可信、叙事抒情的手法如行云流水，充分体现了这种的文学传统。莫泊桑的最出色的短篇代表作是《羊脂球》。《项链》、《我的叔叔于勒》；其作品在我国影响很大，近几年来，一直被作为中学生必课的文学作品.

欧~亨利（1862～1910）善于描写美国社会尤其是纽约百姓的生活。他的作品构思新颖，语言诙谐，结局常常出人意外；欧~亨利一生创作了270多个短篇小说和一部长篇小说，还有数量很少的诗歌他颇善情节设计，处处留下玄机，结局常常以出人意料出外而收场。读后使人不禁使人豁然开朗，拍案叫绝,被称为"欧~亨利式结尾".又因描写了众多的人物，富于生活情趣，被誉为“美国生活的幽默网络全书”.黑色幽默,“含泪水的微笑”。代表作有《爱的牺牲》、《警察与赞美诗》、《带家具出租的房间》、《麦琪的礼物》、《最后一片叶子》等.

契诃夫（1860-1904）他常以十九世界俄国社会中所常见的凡人小事为素材，用语言简练、讽刺尖刻笔触描写小人物和知识分子两类人的命运。代表作有《小职员之死》《变色龙》。《套中人》等。契河夫是19世纪末俄国伟大的剧作家和短篇小说家，俄国现实主义文学流派的杰出代表

其他的有:

茨威格短篇小说集
马克.吐温短篇小说集

窃贼(阿·康帕尼尔)
情书(岩井俊二)
永远占有(格雷厄姆·格林)
化石街(岛田庄司)
棋逢对手(西瑞尔·哈尔)
首领(卡拉维洛夫)
热爱生命(杰克·伦敦)
蚂蚁 (博里斯·维昂)
蠢猪 (马莱巴)
品酒 (罗·达尔)
打不碎的鸡蛋 (马莱巴)
劳驾，快点！(图戈依)
品酒 (罗·达尔)

F. 介绍几部经典英文短篇小说

（少年维特的烦恼)，我正在看，可能不算短篇吧。但是它的英文我觉得还比较容易好理解。

G. 高中英语短篇小说求推荐

要是想读名著的话，牛津书虫系列比较适合英语学习，是名著的简化版本，容易理解，也能广泛涉猎。都是双语的。
以下是书目，可以挑些合适的来读：
第四级：1500生词量，适合初三学生
上册5本：
1、《巴斯克维尔猎犬》
2、《不平静的坟墓》
3、《三怪客泛舟记》
4、《三十九级台阶》
5、《小妇人》
下册6本：
1、《黑骏马》
2、《织工马南》
3、《双城记》
4、《格列佛游记》
5、《金银岛》
6、《化身博士》

第五级：2000生词量，适合高一学生，共4本。
1、《远大前程》
2、《大卫•科波菲尔》
3、《呼啸山庄》
4、《远离尘嚣》

第六级：2300生词量，适合高二、高三学生，共4本
1、《简•爱》
2、《雾都孤儿》
3、《傲慢与偏见》
4、《苔丝》

如果读原著小说，莫泊桑 欧亨利 契科夫 的都挺好，但是有生僻词。

H. 经典好看的英文小说推荐9本 经典好看的英文小说有哪些

1、《芒果街上的小屋》The House on Mango Street：一个在写作中追求现实与热爱的故事。作者桑德拉·希斯内罗丝以日记式的断想、形诸真实的稚嫩少女文字，记录了一个居住在拉美贫民社区芒果街上的女孩蜕变为女人的过程。生活的点点滴滴，一朵云彩、一只小狗、一次伤心、一次悸动将回忆如诗般铺开。

2、《本杰明·巴顿奇事》The Curious Case of Benjamin Button：翻转人生，是怎样一种体验？一个出生就80岁的“婴儿”本杰明·巴顿，随着时间流逝日渐年轻，不平凡的一生就此展开。作者菲茨杰拉德是20世纪最伟大的美国作家之一，他以奇妙的角度讲述了本杰明的倒放人生，带我们走近一个奇幻世界。

3、《哈利·波特》全集Harry Potter：《哈利·波特》和作者罗琳有多经典就不需要大贝多说了吧！这一魔幻文学系列小说写于1997～2007年，讲述了了失去双亲的年轻巫师哈利·波特在霍格沃茨魔法学校的学习生活和冒险故事。

4、《流浪地球》The Wandering Earth：太阳即将毁灭，人类不得不在地球上建造推进器，靠其动力使地球飞出太阳系，重新寻找适宜生存的家园，无论结果如何，人类的勇气和坚毅，都被镌刻在星空下。

5、《心灵奇旅》Soul：音乐老师乔·加德纳意外失足跌落，重伤昏迷，濒死之际来到了“生之来处”，在那里，新生灵魂将被分配各种性格，然后通过传送门降生地球。乔获得的却是一个愤世嫉俗的灵魂“22号”。一次阴差阳错的经历，乔与“22”命运相连，他们回到地球上一起体验了一段奇妙的生命旅程。读下去，你会在不经意间收获惊喜与感动。

6、《月亮和六便士》The Moon and Sixpence：它以法国印象派画家保罗·高更的生平为素材，描述了一个平凡的证券经纪人人思特里克兰德，为了追求艺术绝弃了旁人看来优裕美满的生活，奔赴塔希提岛用画笔谱写出自己光辉灿烂的生命的故事。

7、《归来记》The Return of Sherlock Holmes：这本书是阿瑟·柯南·道尔所著短篇小说集，应读者强烈要求而写成，共收录了福尔摩斯所经历的十三次探案。传奇神探福尔摩斯起死回生，由《空屋》一案重返人间。《归来记》中，历劫归来后的福尔摩斯和华生再度携手合作，在神秘案件中抽丝剥茧，探得真相。

8、《傲慢与偏见》Pride and Prejudice：这本书讲述了“傲慢先生和偏见小姐”的故事，它被誉为全世界最伟大的爱情小说之一。伊丽莎白在舞会上认识了达西，但是耳闻他为人傲慢，一直对他心生排斥。

9、《神秘岛》The Mysterious Island：五个被困的北方人偶然用气球逃脱，被风暴吹落在了荒岛上。面对荒岛上生存的困境，他们想要努力创造幸福的生活……在故事的最后，他们究竟能否离开这座神秘岛，回到故乡？

I. 英国的短篇小说，有哪些值得推荐

个人推荐下英国著名小说家狄更斯的《信号员》吧，也是英国十大名著之一吧。这个小说读完特别让人深思，主要是讲小镇一个信号员总能预测灾难的东西成为现实。他成了唯一一个灾难的预测者。知道最后一次预测他也成为牺牲者。也表现了作者对底层人民悲惨命运不能改变的悲悯。看完之后我觉得引用波波的话吧：人生中%99的时间可能都是不幸的但是我们要善于发现其中%1的万幸，好好珍惜现在的每一天吧。

J. 推荐一些英文短篇小说

相信你会喜欢这篇短小的小说的。

Appointment With Love －－By Sulamith Ish-Kishor

Six minutes to six, said the great round clock over the information booth in Grand Central Station. The tall young Army lieutenant who had just come from the direction of the tracks lifted his sunburned face, and his eyes narrowed to note the exact time. His heart was pounding with a beat that shocked him because he could not control it. In six minutes, he would see the woman who had filled such a special place in his life for the past 13 months, the woman he had never seen, yet whose written words had been with him and sustained him unfailingly.
He placed himself as close as he could to the information booth, just beyond the ring of people besieging the clerks...
Lieutenant Blandford remembered one night in particular, the worst of the fighting, when his plane had been caught in the midst of a pack of Zeros. He had seen the grinning face of one of the enemy pilots.
In one of his letters, he had confessed to her that he often felt fear, and only a few days before this battle, he had received her answer: "Of course you fear...all brave men do. Didn't King David know fear? That's why he wrote the 23rd Psalm. Next time you doubt yourself, I want you to hear my voice reciting to you: 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for Thou art with me.'" And he had remembered; he had heard her imagined voice, and it had renewed his strength and skill.
Now he was going to hear her real voice. Four minutes to six. His face grew sharp.
Under the immense, starred roof, people were walking fast, like threads of color being woven into a gray web. A girl passed close to him, and Lieutenant Blandford started. She was wearing a red flower in her suit lapel, but it was a crimson sweet pea, not the little red rose they had agreed upon. Besides, this girl was too young, about 18, whereas Hollis Meynell had frankly told him she was 30. "Well, what of it?" he had answered. "I'm 32." He was 29.
His mind went back to that book - the book the Lord Himself must have put into his hands out of the hundreds of Army library books sent to the Florida training camp. Of Human Bondage, it was; and throughout the book were notes in a woman's writing. He had always hated that writing-in habit, but these remarks were different. He had never believed that a woman could see into a man's heart so tenderly, so understandingly. Her name was on the bookplate: Hollis Meynell. He had got hold of a New York City telephone book and found her address. He had written, she had answered. Next day he had been shipped out, but they had gone on writing.
For 13 months, she had faithfully replied, and more than replied. When his letters did not arrive she wrote anyway, and now he believed he loved her, and she loved him.
But she had refused all his pleas to send him her photograph. That seemed rather bad, of course. But she had explained: "If your feeling for me has any reality, any honest basis, what I look like won't matter. Suppose I'm beautiful. I'd always be haunted by the feeling that you had been taking a chance on just that, and that kind of love would disgust me. Suppose I'm plain (and you must admit that this is more likely). Then I'd always fear that you were going on writing to me only because you were lonely and had no one else. No, don't ask for my picture. When you come to New York, you shall see me and then you shall make your decision. Remember, both of us are free to stop or to go on after that - whichever we choose..."
One minute to six - Lieutenant Blandford's heart leaped higher than his plane had ever done.
A young woman was coming toward him. Her figure was long and slim; her blond hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears. Her eyes were blue as flowers, her lips and chin had a gentle firmness. In her pale green suit, she was like springtime come alive.
He started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was wearing no rose, and as he moved, a small, provocative smile curved her lips.
"Going my way, soldier?" she murmured.
Uncontrollably, he made one step closer to her. Then he saw Hollis Meynell.
She was standing almost directly behind the girl, a woman well past 40, her graying hair tucked under a worn hat. She was more than plump; her thick-ankled feet were thrust into low-heeled shoes. But she wore a red rose in the rumpled lapel of her brown coat.
The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away.
Blandford felt as though he were being split in two, so keen was his desire to follow the girl, yet so deep was his longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned and upheld his own; and there she stood. Her pale, plump face was gentle and sensible; he could see that now. Her gray eyes had a warm, kindly twinkle.
Lieutenant Blandford did not hesitate. His fingers gripped the small worn, blue leather of Of Human Bondage, which was to identify him to her. This would not be love, but it would be something precious, something perhaps even rarer than love - a friendship for which he had been and must ever be grateful.
He squared his broad shoulders, saluted and held the book out toward the woman, although even while he spoke he felt shocked by the bitterness of his disappointment.
"I'm Lieutenant John Blandford, and you - you are Miss Meynell. I'm so glad you could meet me. May...may I take you to dinner?"
The woman's face broadened in a tolerant smile. "I don't know what this is all about, son," she answered. "That young lady in the green suit - the one who just went by - begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said that if you asked me to go out with you, I should tell you that she's waiting for you in that big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of a test. I've got two boys with Uncle Sam myself, so I didn't mind to oblige you."