英語超短篇小說推薦

A. 英語短篇小說

英語短篇小說

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..

C. 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」。

D. 值得一看的英文小說介紹

在世界文學史上,英文小說是最重要的組成部分之一,而且英語作為世界上使用范圍最廣的語言,許多國家和地區的文學作品都是以英文出版的。以下是我介紹給大家的關於值得一看的英文小說，希望大家喜歡!

值得一看的英文小說介紹:
1、慢人

J.M.庫切 著

浙江文藝出版社

鄒海倫 譯

2013-3

《慢人》(J.M.庫切著)是庫切獲諾貝爾文學獎後的第一部小說。這部關於年老、殘缺、身份、死亡和羞恥的現實主義小說，在中段嬗變為一本後現代小說，作者與其筆下的人物在其中對決。而作者介入小說的元小說模式也延續了庫切在《恥》中探討的“越界”問題：《恥》里寫的是對政治、社會和個人界限的超越;而《慢人》則是對“作者式殖民”的一種反抗。

2、當我們談論安妮·弗蘭克時我們談論什麼

內森•英格蘭德 著

上海文藝出版社

李天奇

2014-6-20

《當我們談論安妮·弗蘭克時我們談論什麼》(內森·英格蘭德著，李天奇譯)避開了慣常的歐美視角，從猶太人內部出發，用爆笑的幽默感——有時甚至不合時宜、但恰恰又因為不合時宜反而帶來一種令讀者不安的奇效——和極具洞察力的道德故事探討宗教、身份、倫理、歷史等諸多嚴肅、基本又略顯宏大的主題。

3、貓的搖籃

庫爾特·馮內古特 著

譯林出版社

劉珠還 譯

2006

《貓的搖籃》(庫爾特·馮內古特著，劉珠還譯)是美國後現代小說家馮內古特的第四部小說。敘事者為撰寫一本有關廣島原子彈爆炸當日發生事件的書，尋訪了原子彈之父霍尼克爾博士的同事和親戚。小說以黑色幽默的手法講述了這個荒誕、離奇又可怕的故事，反思科學技術的濫用如何反過來毀滅了人類自己。

4、紐約三部曲

保羅·奧斯特 著

浙江文藝出版社

文敏 譯

2007-3

《紐約三部曲》(保羅·奧斯特著，文敏譯)是保羅·奧斯特的小說處女作。尋找一個失蹤的人，跟蹤、解開一段往昔歲月的謎題——三個彼此關聯、非傳統的形而上的偵探小說，其主角真正要面對的是存在主義式的、關於自身身份的難解之謎。

5、盲刺客

瑪格麗特·阿特伍德 著

上海譯文出版社

韓忠華 譯

2012-3-1

《盲刺客》(瑪格麗特·阿特伍德著，韓忠華譯)獲2000年布克獎，是瑪格麗特·阿特伍德最精彩的小說，展現了她構建多重敘事和多重時間的卓越能力。

6、九故事

J.D.塞林格

人民文學出版社

李文俊 / 何上峰 譯

2010.06

《九故事》(J. D. 塞林格著，李文俊、何上峰譯)以兼具天真和荒誕的少年視角探討婚姻生活、少年成長、母子關系、戰爭、藝術、天才甚至小說創作本身等諸多主題。極少對人物、事物或其因果邏輯進行評斷，而只呈現故事本身。

7、自由國度

V.S.奈保爾 著

南海出版公司

吳正 譯

2013-11

《自由國度》(V.S.奈保爾著，吳正譯)獲1971年布克獎，由三個短篇小說和兩篇“旅行日記”組成，圍繞“自由”這個主題，在殖民/後殖民的語境中，對“何為真正的自由、如何獲得真正的自由”，對殖民主義進行了深刻的反思，並探討了遠離故土的異鄉人的身份迷思。

8、關於美

扎迪·史密斯 著

人民文學出版社

楊佩樺 / 聶清風 譯

2008-10

《關於美》(扎迪·史密斯著，楊佩樺、聶清風譯)作者是英國文壇新秀，她擅於融合不同人的敘事聲音，以經常令人捧腹大笑的幽默或堪稱尖刻的諷刺賦予了小說一種現代的韻味。

9、拉合爾茶館的陌生人

莫欣·哈米德 著

上海譯文出版社

吳剛 譯

2009-1

《拉合爾茶館的陌生人》(莫欣·哈米德著，吳剛譯)是後“9·11”小說中最精彩的一部。這本僅有178頁的小說是一篇獨白，唯一的敘事聲音來自一位在美國上學、工作、後來又返回故鄉的巴基斯坦人。通過他的眼光，小說審視了一個不願對痛苦進行反思的社會，並以鏡像式的愛情故事，雜糅兩性關系與身份、歷史、記憶、宗教，以輕盈的敘事寓言般訴說著沉重的主題。

10、終結的感覺

朱利安·巴恩斯 著

譯林出版社

郭國良 譯

2012-7

《終結的感覺》(朱利安·巴恩斯著，郭國良譯)獲2011年布克獎，是對時間(主觀的時間及客觀的時間)、歷史(尤其是個人史)、死亡(以及加繆所說的、唯一真正的哲學問題：自殺)和敘事本身的一次沉思。它更是一本記憶之書，對於人如何記憶、時間如何影響記憶、記憶又如何反過來影響時間，記憶的不可靠性以及歷史、尤其是個人史如何書寫作了有力的反思。
20世紀最佳中文小說推薦：
1. 戴思傑《巴爾札克與小裁縫》(Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress)

2. 韓少功《馬橋辭典》(A Dictionary of Maqiao)

3. J.G. 巴拉德《太陽帝國》(Empire of the Sun)

4. 麥家《解密》(Decoded)

5. 裘小龍《石庫門驪歌》(When Red is Black)

6. 吳明益《復眼人》(The Man with the Compound Eyes)

7. 李翊雲《漂泊者》(The Vagrants)

8. 閔安琪《毛夫人》(Becoming Madame Mao)

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

10. 余華《活著》(To Live)

11. 張愛玲《傾城之戀》(Love in a Fallen City)

12. 莫言《紅高粱家族》(Red Sorghum)

13. 錢鍾書《圍城》(Fortress Besieged)

14. 遲子建《額爾古納河右岸》(The Last Quarter of the Moon)

15. 老舍《貓城記》(Cat Country)

16. 賽珍珠《大地》(The Good Earth)

17. 閻連科《丁庄夢》(Dream of the Ding Village)

18. 馬建《拉麵者》(The Noodle Maker)

19. 盛可以《北妹》(Northern Girls)

20. 陳希我《冒犯書》(The Book of Sins)

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世界三大短篇小說之王

莫泊桑、契訶夫和歐~亨利

莫泊桑（Maupassant1850～1893）19世紀後半期法國優秀的批判現實主義作家。年僅43年生命歷程竟創作了6部長篇小說和356多篇中短篇小說，莫泊桑短篇小說布局結構精巧合理。典型細節選用真實可信、敘事抒情的手法如行雲流水，充分體現了這種的文學傳統。莫泊桑的最出色的短篇代表作是《羊脂球》。《項鏈》、《我的叔叔於勒》；其作品在我國影響很大，近幾年來，一直被作為中學生必課的文學作品.

歐~亨利（1862～1910）善於描寫美國社會尤其是紐約百姓的生活。他的作品構思新穎，語言詼諧，結局常常出人意外；歐~亨利一生創作了270多個短篇小說和一部長篇小說，還有數量很少的詩歌他頗善情節設計，處處留下玄機，結局常常以出人意料出外而收場。讀後使人不禁使人豁然開朗，拍案叫絕,被稱為"歐~亨利式結尾".又因描寫了眾多的人物，富於生活情趣，被譽為「美國生活的幽默網路全書」.黑色幽默,「含淚水的微笑」。代表作有《愛的犧牲》、《警察與贊美詩》、《帶傢具出租的房間》、《麥琪的禮物》、《最後一片葉子》等.

契訶夫（1860-1904）他常以十九世界俄國社會中所常見的凡人小事為素材，用語言簡練、諷刺尖刻筆觸描寫小人物和知識分子兩類人的命運。代表作有《小職員之死》《變色龍》。《套中人》等。契河夫是19世紀末俄國偉大的劇作家和短篇小說家，俄國現實主義文學流派的傑出代表

其他的有:

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)

F. 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。

G. 高中英語短篇小說求推薦

要是想讀名著的話，牛津書蟲系列比較適合英語學習，是名著的簡化版本，容易理解，也能廣泛涉獵。都是雙語的。
以下是書目，可以挑些合適的來讀：
第四級：1500生詞量，適合初三學生
上冊5本：
1、《巴斯克維爾獵犬》
2、《不平靜的墳墓》
3、《三怪客泛舟記》
4、《三十九級台階》
5、《小婦人》
下冊6本：
1、《黑駿馬》
2、《織工馬南》
3、《雙城記》
4、《格列佛游記》
5、《金銀島》
6、《化身博士》

第五級：2000生詞量，適合高一學生，共4本。
1、《遠大前程》
2、《大衛•科波菲爾》
3、《呼嘯山莊》
4、《遠離塵囂》

第六級：2300生詞量，適合高二、高三學生，共4本
1、《簡•愛》
2、《霧都孤兒》
3、《傲慢與偏見》
4、《苔絲》

如果讀原著小說，莫泊桑 歐亨利 契科夫 的都挺好，但是有生僻詞。

H. 經典好看的英文小說推薦9本 經典好看的英文小說有哪些

1、《芒果街上的小屋》The House on Mango Street：一個在寫作中追求現實與熱愛的故事。作者桑德拉·希斯內羅絲以日記式的斷想、形諸真實的稚嫩少女文字，記錄了一個居住在拉美貧民社區芒果街上的女孩蛻變為女人的過程。生活的點點滴滴，一朵雲彩、一隻小狗、一次傷心、一次悸動將回憶如詩般鋪開。

2、《本傑明·巴頓奇事》The Curious Case of Benjamin Button：翻轉人生，是怎樣一種體驗？一個出生就80歲的「嬰兒」本傑明·巴頓，隨著時間流逝日漸年輕，不平凡的一生就此展開。作者菲茨傑拉德是20世紀最偉大的美國作家之一，他以奇妙的角度講述了本傑明的倒放人生，帶我們走近一個奇幻世界。

3、《哈利·波特》全集Harry Potter：《哈利·波特》和作者羅琳有多經典就不需要大貝多說了吧！這一魔幻文學系列小說寫於1997～2007年，講述了了失去雙親的年輕巫師哈利·波特在霍格沃茨魔法學校的學習生活和冒險故事。

4、《流浪地球》The Wandering Earth：太陽即將毀滅，人類不得不在地球上建造推進器，靠其動力使地球飛出太陽系，重新尋找適宜生存的家園，無論結果如何，人類的勇氣和堅毅，都被鐫刻在星空下。

5、《心靈奇旅》Soul：音樂老師喬·加德納意外失足跌落，重傷昏迷，瀕死之際來到了「生之來處」，在那裡，新生靈魂將被分配各種性格，然後通過傳送門降生地球。喬獲得的卻是一個憤世嫉俗的靈魂「22號」。一次陰差陽錯的經歷，喬與「22」命運相連，他們回到地球上一起體驗了一段奇妙的生命旅程。讀下去，你會在不經意間收獲驚喜與感動。

6、《月亮和六便士》The Moon and Sixpence：它以法國印象派畫家保羅·高更的生平為素材，描述了一個平凡的證券經紀人人思特里克蘭德，為了追求藝術絕棄了旁人看來優裕美滿的生活，奔赴塔希提島用畫筆譜寫出自己光輝燦爛的生命的故事。

7、《歸來記》The Return of Sherlock Holmes：這本書是阿瑟·柯南·道爾所著短篇小說集，應讀者強烈要求而寫成，共收錄了福爾摩斯所經歷的十三次探案。傳奇神探福爾摩斯起死回生，由《空屋》一案重返人間。《歸來記》中，歷劫歸來後的福爾摩斯和華生再度攜手合作，在神秘案件中抽絲剝繭，探得真相。

8、《傲慢與偏見》Pride and Prejudice：這本書講述了「傲慢先生和偏見小姐」的故事，它被譽為全世界最偉大的愛情小說之一。伊麗莎白在舞會上認識了達西，但是耳聞他為人傲慢，一直對他心生排斥。

9、《神秘島》The Mysterious Island：五個被困的北方人偶然用氣球逃脫，被風暴吹落在了荒島上。面對荒島上生存的困境，他們想要努力創造幸福的生活……在故事的最後，他們究竟能否離開這座神秘島，回到故鄉？

I. 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。

J. 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."