英美短篇小說英文版
1. 推薦一些英文短篇小說
相信你會喜歡這篇短小的小說的。
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."
2. 誰能推薦幾本經典的英美小說！！！
1 哈克貝利·弗恩歷險記——馬克·吐溫
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
哈克貝利是一個聰明、善良、勇敢的白人少年。他為了追求自由的生活，逃亡到密西西比河上。在逃亡途中，他遇到了黑奴吉姆。吉姆是一個勤勞朴實、熱情誠實、忠心耿耿的黑奴，他為了逃脫被主人再次賣掉的命運，從主人家中出逃。他們一起漂流在密西西比河上，過著自由自在的生活，兩人成了好朋友。哈克貝利為了吉姆的自由，歷盡千辛萬苦，最後得知，吉姆的主人已在遺囑里解放了他。小說中，哈克貝利和吉姆的性格鮮明突出，形象栩栩如生。全篇的現實主義描繪和浪漫主義抒情交相輝映，尖銳深刻的揭露、幽默辛辣的諷刺以及浪漫傳奇的描寫渾然一體，形成了馬克·吐溫獨特的藝術風格。
2 純真年代——華頓
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
伊迪絲·沃頓1921年獲得普立策文學獎的小說，她也是普立策獎歷史上首度獲獎的女性作家。
小說的主要情節發生在19世紀70年代末80年代初的紐約上流社會。那是伊迪絲度過童年與青春的地方,她在那兒長大成人,進入社交界,訂婚又解除婚約,最後嫁給波士頓的愛德華華頓,並度過了婚後的最初幾年。時隔40年後,作為小說家的她回顧養育過她也束縛過她的那個社會,她的感情是復雜的,既有親切的眷戀,又有清醒的針砭。作家把那個時代的紐約上流社會比作一個小小的金字塔,它又尖又滑,很難在上面取得立足之地。處在塔頂,真正有貴族血統的只有二三戶人家:華盛頓廣場的達戈內特祖上是正宗的郡中世家;范德盧頓先生是第一任荷蘭總督的嫡孫,他家曾與法國和英國的幾家貴族聯姻;還有與德格拉斯伯爵聯姻的拉寧一家。他們是上流社會的最高階層,但顯然已處於日薄西山的衰敗階段。上流社會的中堅力量是以明戈特家族、紐蘭家族、奇弗斯家族為代表的名門望族,他們的祖輩都是來自英國或荷蘭的富商,早年在殖民地發跡,成為有身份有地位的人物。比如紐蘭·阿切爾的一位曾外祖父曾參與過獨立宣言的簽署,還有一位曾在華盛頓部下任將軍。正如阿切爾太太所說的,「紐約從來就是個商業社會」,占支配地位的是這些殷實的富商。處於金字塔底部的是富有卻不顯貴的人們,他們多數是內戰之後崛起的新富,憑借雄厚的財力,通過聯姻而躋身上流社會。作者從親身經歷與熟悉的環境中提煉素材,塑造人物,將作品題材根置於深厚的現實土壤中。尤其通過博福特命運浮沉這一線索與主人公愛情悲劇的主線相互映襯,使一個看似尋常的愛情故事具備了深刻的社會現實意義。
3 白鯨——梅爾維爾
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
《白鯨》是美國十九世紀浪漫主義小說家梅爾維爾的代表作。在美國文學史和世界文學史上,《白鯨》都是一部經典的著作,一部偉大的小說,是研究美國文學的一部必讀書。《白鯨》展示給我們的是船長亞哈為追殺白鯨帶領佩闊德號及其般員為復仇而走向毀滅的過程。書中以象徵主義及寓言體的寫作方式向我們展示了一部十九世紀美國的真實畫面。從人與自然的抗爭中亞哈的悲劇，人與人的關系中所體現的悲劇兩個角度可以揭示《白鯨》所表現的時代特徵及所蘊涵的悲劇實質。
4 紅字——納撒尼爾·霍桑
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
19世紀美國浪漫主義作家霍桑的長篇小說。創作於1851年。小說以兩百多年前的殖民地時代的美洲為題材，但揭露的卻是19世紀資本主義發展時代美利堅合眾國社會典法的殘酷、宗教的欺騙和道德的虛偽。主人公海絲特被寫成了崇高道德的化身。她不但感化了表裡不一的丁梅斯代爾，同時也在感化著充滿罪惡的社會。至於她的丈夫奇林渥斯，小說則把他寫成了一個一心只想窺秘復仇的影子式的人物。他在小說中只起情節鋪墊的作用。
小說慣用象徵手法，人物、情節和語言都頗具主觀想像色彩，在描寫中又常把人的心理活動和直覺放在首位。因此，它不僅是浪漫主義小說的代表作，同時也被稱作是美國心理分析小說的開創篇。
5 最後的莫希幹人——庫柏
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
《最後的莫希幹人》是《皮裹腿故事集》中最出色的一部。故事發生在十八世紀五十年代末期，英法兩國為爭奪北美殖民地而進行的「七年戰爭」的第三年，地點是在赫德森河的源頭和喬治湖一帶。對於印第安人的被殺戮和印第安部落的消亡，作者的心情是十分沉重的，他深深懷著同情和憤慨。他寫道：「莫希幹人的領土，是被歐洲人侵佔去的美洲大陸的第一塊地盤，因而，莫希幹人就第一個成了離鄉背井的人。面臨著文明的推進，也可以說，文明的入侵，所有印第安部落的人民，就像他們故土林木上的綠葉在刺骨的嚴寒侵凌下紛紛墜地一樣，日益消亡，看來這已成為落到他們頭上的不可避免的命運。有足夠的歷史事實可以證明，這幅慘像並非虛妄之作。」
作者把本書取名為《最後的莫希幹人》，就有著令人心酸的悲哀音調。正直、勇敢的莫希幹人恩卡斯和美麗善良的科拉之死，也不無更深的寓意：隨著他們的死去，他們心靈上的那種美德和純潔的感情也消亡了，留下的只是籠罩在美洲大地上的那些貪婪、殘暴的惡意和邪念。
6 小婦人——路易莎·奧爾科特
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
這部小說以家庭生活為描寫對象，以家庭成員的感情糾葛為線索，描寫了馬奇一家的天倫之愛。馬奇家的四姐妹中，無論是為了愛情甘於貧困的梅格，還是通過自己奮鬥成為作家的喬，以及坦然面對死亡的貝思和以扶弱為己任的艾米，雖然她們的理想和命運都不盡相同，但是她們都具有自強自立的共同特點。描寫了她們對家庭的眷戀；對愛的忠誠以及對親情的渴望。馬奇一家有四個姐妹，生活清貧、簡單而又溫馨。四組妹性格迥異；老大梅格漂亮端莊，有些愛慕虛榮；老二喬自由獨立，渴望成為作家，老三貝絲善良羞澀，熱愛音樂，老四埃米聰慧活潑，愛好藝術，希望成為一名上流社會的「淑女」。
所有時代的所有少女成長過程中所要面對的經歷的，都可以在這本書中找到：初戀的甜蜜和煩惱，感情與理智的譯，理想和現實的差距，貧窮與富有的矛盾。
7 野性的呼喚——傑克·倫敦
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
《野性的呼喚》是傑克·倫敦最負盛名的小說。故事主要敘述一隻強壯勇猛的狼狗巴克從人類文明社會回到狼群原始生活的過程。巴克是一頭體重140磅的十分強壯的狗。他本來在一個大法官家裡過著優裕的生活，後來被法官的園丁偷走，輾轉賣給郵局，又被送到阿拉斯加嚴寒地區去拉運送郵件的雪橇。巴克最初被賣給兩個法裔加拿大人。這些被買來的狗不僅受到了冷酷的人類的虐待，而且在狗之間為了爭奪狗群的領導權，也無時不在互相爭斗、殘殺。由於體力超群、機智勇敢，巴克最終打敗斯比茨成為狗群的領隊狗。他先後換過幾個主人，最後被約翰·索頓收留。那是在巴克被殘暴的主人哈爾打得遍體鱗傷、奄奄一息時，索頓救了他，並悉心為他療傷。在索頓的精心護理下巴克恢復得很快，由此他們之間產生了真摯的感情。巴克對索頓非常忠誠，他兩次不顧生命危險救了索頓的命，並在索頓和別人打賭時，拚命把一個載有一千磅鹽的雪橇拉動，為索頓贏了一大筆錢。不幸的是，在淘金的過程中，索頓被印第安人殺死。狂怒之下，巴克咬死了幾個印第安人，為主人報了仇。這時恩主已死，他覺得對這個人類社會已無所留戀。況且，一段時期以來，荒野中總回盪著一個神秘的呼喚聲。這個聲音吸引著他。最終，他回應著這個聲音，進入森林，從此與狼為伍，過著原始動物的生活。但他不忘舊誼，仍然定期到主人的葬身之處去憑吊。
8 湯姆叔叔的小屋——哈里特·比徹·斯托
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
出生於康涅狄格州的斯托夫人，是哈特福德女子學院（Hartford Female Academy）的一名教師，同時，她也是一位積極的廢奴主義者。全書圍繞著一位久經苦難的黑奴湯姆叔叔的故事展開，並描述了他與他身邊人——均為奴隸與奴隸主——的經歷。這部感傷小說深刻地描繪出了奴隸制度殘酷的本質；並認為基督徒的愛可以戰勝由奴役人類同胞所帶來的種種傷害。
《湯姆叔叔的小屋》這部小說是19世紀最暢銷的小說（以及第二暢銷的書，僅次於最暢銷的書《聖經》）並被認為是刺激1850代廢奴主義興起的一大原因。在它發表的頭一年裡，在美國本土便銷售出了三十萬冊。《湯姆叔叔的小屋》對美國社會的影響是如此巨大，以致在南北戰爭爆發的初期，當林肯接見斯托夫人時，曾說到：「你就是那位引發了一場大戰的小婦人。」後來，這句話為眾多作家競相引用。
《湯姆叔叔的小屋》以及受其啟發而寫作出的各種劇本，還促進了大量黑人刻板印象的產生，不少的這些形象在當今都為人們所熟知。譬如慈愛善良的黑人保姆、黑小孩的原型、以及順從、堅忍並忠心於白人主人的湯姆叔叔。最近幾十年來，《湯姆叔叔的小屋》中的這些消極成分，已在一定程度上弱化了這本書作為「重要的反奴隸制工具」的歷史作用。
3. 英國的短篇小說，有哪些值得推薦
個人推薦下英國著名小說家狄更斯的《信號員》吧，也是英國十大名著之一吧。這個小說讀完特別讓人深思，主要是講小鎮一個信號員總能預測災難的東西成為現實。他成了唯一一個災難的預測者。知道最後一次預測他也成為犧牲者。也表現了作者對底層人民悲慘命運不能改變的悲憫。看完之後我覺得引用波波的話吧：人生中%99的時間可能都是不幸的但是我們要善於發現其中%1的萬幸，好好珍惜現在的每一天吧。
4. 介紹幾部經典英文短篇小說
（少年維特的煩惱)，我正在看，可能不算短篇吧。但是它的英文我覺得還比較容易好理解。
5. 推薦幾本好看的原版英文原版小說
以下是《時代》評出的1923年至今最好的100本英文小說，都很不錯。
個人推薦AnimalFarm；1984； Gone With the Wind
BOOK WRITER
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow（兩本上榜）
All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral Philip Roth （兩本）
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm George Orwell (兩本)
Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
The Assistant Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien
Atonement Ian McEwan （一定要弄一本來看看）
Beloved Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep Henry Roth
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon（兩本）
A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather
A Death in the Family James Agee
The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance James Dickey
Dog Soldiers Robert Stone
Falconer John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers （感興趣）
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene （也是兩本，也感興趣）
Herzog Saul Bellow
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius Robert Graves
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Light in August William Faulkner （兩本，估計老郭的課會講他，但沒選）
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov （兩本）
Lord of the Flies William Golding
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Loving Henry Green
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis （這個是本科看過，泛讀？）
The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
Money Martin Amis
The Moviegoer Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf（親愛的Woolf也有兩本，好像是唯一有兩本上榜的女作家？）
Naked Lunch William Burroughs
Native Son Richard Wright
Neuromancer William Gibson
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro （不是熟悉的remains of the day）
1984 George Orwell
On the Road Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India E.M. Forster（載載本來要講的，但因時間原因被刪，個人很喜歡的作家）
Play It As It Lays Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth
Possession A.S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run John Updike
Ragtime E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions William Gaddis
Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth（課上讀的是他的一個短篇Lost in the Funhouse）
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
The Sportswriter Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe（俺導師好像提過這個人）
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Ubik Philip K. Dick
Under the Net Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise Don DeLillo
White Teeth Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys（Jane Eyre的續篇，後殖民小說）
6. 有什麼英語短篇小說推薦
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.
《好人難尋》這篇小說是奧康納最為著名的作品，很少有其他短篇小說能像這篇一樣給我們帶來震撼。無論你是否能明了宗教般的潛在含義，看完這篇小說讀者都會開始或是結束對存在的檢視。
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.
這篇小說很短，但是堪稱完美。巴塞爾姆的優秀就在於他能用精選的極少幾個文字就為我們敘述了一個世界。他很少過多地解釋，就把讀者帶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.
卡夫卡稱自己的這篇小說是一個「很臟的故事」，認為並不完美，但是這個短篇確實我們的最愛之一。在小說中，我們可以體會到，身體是一切問題和弱點的根源，但身體也是唯一能轉化真知的地方。
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.
我們喜歡這篇小說的原因就在於，這個故事有能力把每個細微的細節瞬間變為一場災難，而Nabokov在寫這篇小說用的是輕松華麗水銀瀉地般的散文風格。
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.
契科夫的小說無疑是最偉大的作品之一，而這篇是我們的最愛。這篇小說像他的其他小說一樣，沒有清晰的道德標准，我們只是靜靜地看著幾個人圍坐著，討論他們的思想。
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.
這部小說是桑德斯最為喜愛的一步短篇，這也是我們聽說的。因為我們很難做出選擇，因此就把他自己的推介放在了這里。這部小說充滿了荒誕和諷刺，但是也關心家庭和貧窮等問題。像他的其他小說一樣，在黑暗和取笑中，也暗含著美好和快樂。
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.
勒古這部寓言般的短篇小說獲得過1974年的「雨果獎」，是關於一個類似烏托邦的城市的荒誕又宏大的故事。
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.
布萊伯利作為歷史上最富盛名的科幻小說家，這篇小說也是通過精心編寫的。
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.
門羅是毫無爭議的短篇小說女王，她的作品有一種朴實風格，常常帶著心跳般的粗獷，這篇關於喪失記憶以及人類互動中的痛苦和柔弱的小說也不例外。
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?
果戈里應該是這個書單上最久遠的作家了，但是他也是最荒誕的小說家之一。納博科夫曾近這樣寫道：「在果戈里的作品中，荒誕的人物屬於他周圍荒誕的世界，但是卻可憐兮兮且悲慘地要逃離他的世界，最終死於絕望」。
7. 求幾本外國短篇小說，要短的！！越短越好
莫泊桑短篇小說集
契訶夫短篇小說集
茨威格短篇小說集
馬克.吐溫短篇小說集
竊賊(阿·康帕尼爾)
情書(岩井俊二)
永遠佔有(格雷厄姆·格林)
化石街(島田莊司)
棋逢對手(西瑞爾·哈爾)
首領(卡拉維洛夫)
熱愛生命(傑克·倫敦)
螞蟻 (博里斯·維昂)
蠢豬 (馬萊巴)
品酒 (羅·達爾)
打不碎的雞蛋 (馬萊巴)
勞駕，快點！(圖戈依)
品酒 (羅·達爾)
8. 經典短篇英文小說
經典短篇小說好多呢！用詞比較簡單，但意義深刻！更重要的是每一篇都短小精悍！（符合你的要求哦）
1.《生火》傑克.倫敦 To Build a Fire (Jack LondonP
2.《厄謝爾府的倒塌》 愛倫.坡
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
3.《項鏈》莫泊桑 The Necklace (Guy de Maupassant)
4.《警察與贊美詩》歐.亨利 The Cop and the Anthem
(O Henry)
5.《麥琪的禮物》歐.亨利 Magi's gift (O Henry)
6.《最後一片藤葉》歐.亨利 The Last Leaf (O Henry)
7.《加利維拉縣有名的跳蛙》馬克.吐溫 The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
（Mark Twain)
8.《人生的五種恩賜》馬克.吐溫
The Five Boons of Life （Mark Twain)
9.《三生客》 托馬斯.哈代 The Three Strangers
(Thomas Hardy)
10.《敞開的落地窗》薩基 The Open Window (Saki)
11.《末代佳人》菲茨傑拉德 The Last of the Belles
(F.S.Fitzgerald)
12.《手》舍伍德.安德森 Hands
13.《伊芙琳》詹姆斯.喬伊斯 Eveline
14.《教長的黑色面紗》納撒尼爾.霍桑
9. 英語短篇小說
經典英語短篇小說推薦如下：
1、密西西比河上的馬戲團男孩 The Circus Boys On the M
簡介： 本書是1910-1920出版的一套兒童系列叢書中的一本，講述了兩個男孩離家加入馬戲團的故事。達靈頓先生用大師之筆，向我們描繪了馬戲團生活的真實畫面。...
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
簡介： 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..
10. 有哪些好看的短篇英文小說
《了不起的蓋茨比》
作者簡介：弗·司各特·菲茨傑拉德，美國小說家，年輕時試寫過劇本。1920年出版了長篇小說《人間天堂》，從此出了名，小說出版後他與澤爾達結婚。1925年《了不起的蓋茨比》問世，奠定了他在現代美國文學史上的地位，成了20年代「爵士時代」的發言人和「迷惘的一代」的代表作家之一。
內容簡介：20世紀20年代的美國，空氣里彌漫著歡歌與縱飲的氣息。一個偶然的機會，窮職員尼克闖人了揮金如土的大富翁蓋茨比隱秘的世界，驚訝地發現，他內心惟一的牽絆竟是河對岸那盞小小的綠燈——-燈影婆娑中，住著他心愛的黛西。然而，冰冷的現實容不下飄渺的夢，到頭來，蓋茨比心中的女神只不過是凡塵俗世的物質女郎。當一切真相大白，蓋茨比的悲劇人生亦如煙花般，璀璨只是一瞬，幻滅才是永恆。
推薦理由：一闋華麗的「爵士時代」的輓歌，在菲茨傑拉德筆下，如詩如夢，在美國當代文學史上留下了墨色濃重的印痕。20世紀末，美國學術界權威在百年英語文學長河中選出一百部最優秀的小說，《了不起的蓋茨比》高居第二位，傲然躋身當代經典行列。