知名短篇小說選
⑴ 世界著名短篇小說
THE GIFT OF THE
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty- seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
While the mistress of the home is graally subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham Young."
The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze ring a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already introced to you as Della. Which is all very good.
Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out lly at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling--something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.
There was a pier-glass between the windows of the room. Perhaps you have seen a pier-glass in an $8 flat. A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della, being slender, had mastered the art.
Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass. her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length.
Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that had been his father's and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair. Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels and gifts. Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy.
So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her. And then she did it up again nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.
On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.
Where she stopped the sign read: "Mne. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds." One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the "Sofronie."
"Will you buy my hair?" asked Della.
"I buy hair," said Madame. "Take yer hat off and let's have a sight at the looks of it."
Down rippled the brown cascade.
"Twenty dollars," said Madame, lifting the mass with a practised hand.
"Give it to me quick," said Della.
Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present.
She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation--as all good things should do. It was even worthy of The Watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim's. It was like him. Quietness and value--the description applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.
When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends--a mammoth task.
Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically.
"If Jim doesn't kill me," she said to herself, "before he takes a second look at me, he'll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. But what could I do--oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty- seven cents?"
At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops.
Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob chain in her hand and sat on the corner of the table near the door that he always entered. Then she heard his step on the stair away down on the first flight, and she turned white for just a moment. She had a habit for saying little silent prayer about the simplest everyday things, and now she whispered: "Please God, make him think I am still pretty."
The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it. He looked thin and very serious. Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two--and to be burdened with a family! He needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves.
Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail. His eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it terrified her. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.
Della wriggled off the table and went for him.
"Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me that way. I had my hair cut off and sold because I couldn't have lived through Christmas without giving you a present. It'll grow out again--you won't mind, will you? I just had to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. Say `Merry Christmas!' Jim, and let's be happy. You don't know what a nice-- what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for you."
"You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor.
"Cut it off and sold it," said Della. "Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I'm me without my hair, ain't I?"
Jim looked about the room curiously.
"You say your hair is gone?" he said, with an air almost of idiocy.
"You needn't look for it," said Della. "It's sold, I tell you--sold and gone, too. It's Christmas Eve, boy. Be good to me, for it went for you. Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered," she went on with sudden serious sweetness, "but nobody could ever count my love for you. Shall I put the chops on, Jim?"
Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. He enfolded his Della. For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction. Eight dollars a week or a million a year--what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer. The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them. This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.
Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table.
"Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less. But if you'll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first."
White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper. And then an ecstatic scream of joy; and then, alas! a quick feminine change to hysterical tears and wails, necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of the lord of the flat.
For there lay The Combs--the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshipped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with jewelled rims--just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair. They were expensive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned over them without the least hope of possession. And now, they were hers, but the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.
But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: "My hair grows so fast, Jim!"
And them Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!"
Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm. The ll precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit.
"Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch. I want to see how it looks on it."
Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled.
"Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and keep 'em a while. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on."
The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of plication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
⑵ 世界著名短篇小說有哪些
1、《羊脂球》。「短篇小說大師」之稱的法國作家莫泊桑先生創作的小說。《羊脂球》是他的成名作，也是他的代表作之一。故事以羊脂球的悲慘遭遇反襯了資本主義下的丑惡骯臟的靈魂。他們虛偽的面具下藏的都是腐朽的內臟和污穢的思想。
2.《項鏈》。莫泊桑作於1884年。故事講述了小公務員的妻子瑪蒂爾德為參加一次晚會，向朋友借了一串鑽石項鏈，來炫耀自己的美麗。不料，項鏈在回家途中不慎丟失。她只得借錢買了新項鏈還給朋友。為了償還債務，她節衣縮食，為別人打短工，整整勞苦了十年。最後，得知所借的項鏈原是一串假鑽石項鏈。本文以項鏈本身為線索，通過借項鏈、丟項鏈、還項鏈的線索自然地帶領讀者走進女主人公瑪蒂爾德的生活及其內心世界，深刻領略19世紀的法國小人物無法決定自身命運的悲劇現實。
3.《變色龍》。是俄國作家契訶夫早期創作的一篇諷刺小說。在這篇著名的小說里，他以精湛的藝術手法，塑造了一個專橫跋扈、欺下媚上、見風使舵的沙皇專制制度走狗奧楚蔑洛夫的典型形象，具有廣泛的藝術概括性。小說的名字起得十分巧妙。變色龍本是一種蜥蜴類的四腳爬行動物，能夠根據四周物體的顏色改變自己的膚色，以防其它動物的侵害。
⑶ 世界著名短篇小說
莫泊桑《羊脂球》、《項鏈》 契可夫 《變色龍》、《苦惱》、《萬卡》、《第六病室》、《套中人》歐.亨利《麥琪的禮物》、《警察與贊美詩》
還有雨果： 克洛德.格
歐文： 鬼新郎
左拉： 陪襯人
都德： 三部大彌撒
哈代： 富於想像的婦人
海涅： 帕格尼尼
普希金： 黑桃皇後
莫泊桑： 蠻子大媽
梅里美： 伊爾的美神
狄更斯： 窮人的專利
果戈理： 舊式的地主
司各特： 流浪漢威利的故事
契科夫： 寶貝兒
高爾基： 切爾卡希
巴爾扎克： 不為人知的傑作
馬克.吐溫 田納西的新聞界
傑克.倫敦 變節者
屠格涅夫： 總管
歐. 亨利 愛的犧牲
⑷ 優秀短篇小說推薦
1.《都柏林人》
作者：詹姆斯·喬伊斯
詹姆斯·喬伊斯是意識流文學的開山鼻祖，其長篇小說《尤利西斯》是意識流文學的代表作，二十世紀最偉大的小說之一。
《都柏林人》是詹姆斯·喬伊斯久負盛名的短篇小說集，稱得上20世紀整個西方最著名的短篇小說集。如果說《十一種孤獨》是屬於美國人的孤獨，那麼，《都柏林人》則是屬於愛爾蘭人的孤獨。
⑸ 世界著名短篇小說有哪些
(1)莫泊桑
十九世紀法國著名的批判現實主義小說家.1880年發表第一個短篇小說《羊脂球》,此後陸續寫了一大批思想性和藝術性完美結合的短篇小說,博得世界短篇小說巨匠的贊譽.他的創作廣泛而深刻地反映了十九世紀後半期的法國社會現實,無情地揭露了資產階級道德風尚的丑惡,對下層社會的"小人物"寄予同情.小說構思新穎,描寫生動,人物語言個性化,布局謀篇別具匠心.代表作有短篇小說《羊脂球》,《項鏈》等,長篇小說《一生》,《俊友》(又譯做《漂亮的朋友》等.
(2)契可夫
十世世紀俄國批判現實主義作家,戲劇家和短篇小說藝術大師.他的早期合作諷刺和揭露了俄國社會官場人物媚上欺下的丑惡面目,寫得諧趣橫生,發人深思.八十年代中期,他創作了既幽默又富於悲劇的短篇小說,反映了社會底層人民的被侮辱被損害的不幸生活,具有深刻的思想意義.代表作有短篇小說《變色龍》,《苦惱》,《萬卡》,《第六病室》,《套中人》等.
(3)歐.亨利
十九世紀末二十世紀初美國現實主義著名作家.曾被誣告罪入獄三年.後遷居紐約,專事寫作,他幾乎每周寫一篇短篇小說,供報刊發表.他一生創作了近三百篇短篇小說和一部長篇小說,對腐朽的資本主義制度,反人道的法律,虛偽的道德給予揭露和諷刺.代表作有長篇小說《白菜與皇帝》,短篇小說《麥琪的禮物》,《警察與贊美詩》等.
⑹ 必看的十佳短篇小說
必看的十佳短篇小說有哪些呢?下面是我精心為您整理的必看的十佳短篇小說，希望您喜歡!
必看的十佳短篇小說
1、《外國中短篇小說藏本:陀思妥耶夫斯基》
《外國中短篇小說藏本:陀思妥耶夫斯基》選收了俄國著名作家費陀思妥耶夫斯基的中短篇小說《聖誕樹和婚禮》、《小英雄》、《溫順的女性》和《別人的妻子和床底下的丈夫》等9篇，基本包括了作家中短篇小說創作的精華，較有代表性地體現了作家作為心理描寫大師和反理性主義哲學家的特點。盡管作家善於描寫人心理的極端狀況，憂慮理性主義泛濫的極端後果，但作家還是對社會抱有真誠而美好的希望，期望知識分子和人民互敬互愛、互相學習，消除那些不利於社會發展的精神因素，讓俄羅斯民族泰然屹立於世界民族之林!
《外國中短篇小說藏本陀思妥耶夫斯基》作者費奧多爾·米哈伊洛維奇·陀思妥耶夫斯基是19世紀群星燦爛的俄國文壇上一顆耀眼的明星，與列夫·托爾斯泰、屠格涅夫等人齊名，是俄國文學的卓越代表，他所走過的是一條極為艱辛、復雜的生活與創作道路，是俄國文學史上最復雜、最矛盾的作家之一。即如有人所說“托爾斯泰代表了俄羅斯文學的廣度，陀思妥耶夫斯基則代表了俄羅斯文學的深度”!
2、《變形記》
《變形記》囊括了卡夫卡所有的中短篇小說，其中《變形記》、《在流放地》、《在法的大門前》、《鄉村教師》等都是膾炙人口的名篇。它們均採用象徵、隱喻、誇張等手法，情節生動，故事怪誕離奇，無確定的時間和地點，無前因後果，給人以夢幻、神秘、奇特的感覺。作品的主人公幾乎都處於一種身不由己的境地，他們在離奇古怪的世界中部有自己的目標，但往往又以失敗而告終。是目前我國最全的“ 卡夫卡中短篇小說集”!
在《變形記》中，卡夫卡描述了小職員格里高爾·薩姆沙突然變成一隻使家人都厭惡的大甲蟲的荒誕情節，藉以揭示人與人之間——包括倫常之間——表面上親親熱熱，內心裡卻極為孤獨和陌生的實質，生動而深刻地再現了資本主義社會中人與人之間的冷漠。在荒誕的、不合邏輯的世界裡描繪人類生活的一切活動及其逼真的細節，這正是著名小說家卡夫卡的天賦之所在。快快收入在冊吧!
3、《一個陌生女人的來信》
高爾基曾由衷地贊賞這篇小說“真是一篇驚人的傑作”!《一個陌生女人的來信》其發表伊始就引起了廣泛的關注。同名電影、話劇更是盛演不衰，文學批評層出不窮!
作為以描摹人物情感著稱的文學巨匠，茨威格對人物內心世界的刻畫極為深刻細致，他善於從心理角度再現人物的性格和生活遭遇，尤其擅長刻畫女性心理，塑造女性形象。本書精選了茨威格的7篇小說，如《一個陌生女人的來信》《看不見的珍藏》《一個不能忘記的人》等，皆是其膾炙人口的經典作品!
《一個陌生女人的來信》是由奧地利的著名作家茨威格創作的，是其代表作之一，小說以書信的形式講述了一位女子在彌留之際，在她死去的孩子身旁，寫下了一封凄婉的長信，向作家R訴說了她潛隱了一生的激情愛戀和情感痛苦。由於父親早逝，女孩與母親過著深居簡出，小市民的窮酸生活。隨著時光的沉逝，女孩開始厭棄她與母親的現實生存狀態。小說以一名女子最痛苦的經歷，寫出了愛的深沉與奉獻。
4、《莫泊桑中短篇小說集》
“世界短篇小說之王”的巔峰之作，了解法國歷史和社會的窗口。莫言、余華、海明威、米蘭·昆德拉、村上春樹盛贊!莫泊桑編著的《莫泊桑中短篇小說集》是世界文學名著之一，收入了法國著名作家莫泊桑的代表作品多篇，其中包括《項鏈》、《羊脂球》、《我的叔叔於勒》等經典名篇。這些小說已被翻譯成各種文字，影響了一代又一代世界各地的讀者，有的還被改編成戲劇、電影、電視劇和卡通片等。 作者居伊·德·莫泊桑，19世紀後半葉法國優秀的批判現實主義作家，人稱“短篇小說之王”!與契訶夫和歐·亨利並稱為“世界三大短篇小說家”，對後世產生極大影響。莫泊桑在文學史上的首要貢獻，在於把短篇小說藝術提高到一個空前的水平。逼真自然，是他追求的首要目標，也是他藝術的重要標志。莫泊桑去世時，愛彌爾·左拉致悼詞，並預言莫泊桑的作品將永垂不朽，將是“未來的學生們作為無懈可擊的完美典範口口相傳”的作品!
5、《愛倫·坡暗黑故事全集》
《愛倫·坡暗黑故事全集》由愛倫·坡所著，本書收錄19世紀美國著名作家愛倫·坡的小說五十餘篇，完整呈現了愛倫·坡筆下神秘暗黑世界，會讓喜愛推理小說的讀者愛不釋手。愛倫·坡是美國文學史上一個無法忽略的名字，他是天才詩人、小說家和文學評論家，美國文學史上一個無法忽略的名字，公認的偵探推理小說鼻祖!
作者埃德加·愛倫·坡，十九世紀美國詩人、小說家和文學評論家，美國浪漫主義思潮時期的重要成員。在世時長期擔任報刊編輯工作。其作品形式精緻、語言優美、內容多樣，在任何時代都是“獨一無二”的風格。他以神秘故事和恐怖小說聞名於世，他是美國短篇故事的最早先驅者之一，又被尊為推理小說的開山鼻祖，進而也被譽為後世科幻小說的始祖。他是第一個嘗試完全依賴寫作謀生的知名美國作家，從而導致貧困潦倒。
6、《馬克·吐溫短篇小說集》
歐美文學界的幽默泰斗，被福克納稱為“美國文學之父”，被豪威爾斯譽為“美國文學的林肯”，被奧巴馬稱為美國最偉大的諷刺小說家!威廉·福克納稱他為“第一位真正的美國作家，我們都是繼承他而來”!
《馬克·吐溫短篇小說集》作者是美國批判現實主義文學的奠基人，他的主要作品已大多有中文譯本。他經歷了美國從初期資本主義到帝國主義的發展過程，其思想和創作也表現為從輕快調笑到辛辣諷刺再到悲觀厭世的發展階段，前期以辛辣的諷刺見長，到了後期語言更為暴露激烈。被譽為“美國文學史上的林肯”!
馬克·吐溫一生寫了大量作品，題材涉及小說、劇本、散文、詩歌等各方面。從內容上說，他的作品批判了不合理現象或人性的丑惡之處，表達了這位當過排字工人和水手的作家強烈的正義感和對普通人民的關心;從風格上說，專家們和一般讀者都認為，幽默和諷刺是他的寫作特點，一起到書中看看吧!
7、《契訶夫短篇小說集》
只需一個詞，就能創造一個形象，只需一句話，就可以創造一個短篇故事，而且是絕妙的短篇故事，筆下有如此功力的作家唯有契訶夫!契訶夫善用喜劇性的筆法表達善意的嘲諷，托爾斯泰喻之為“印象派畫家”!通過這部《契訶夫短篇小說集》中的《套中人》《小官員之死》《胖子和瘦子》《苦惱》《萬卡》《草原》等作品，不僅能看到凡俗生活隱藏下的悲劇，也能看到含淚的微笑之後的亮光;不僅能看到極具質感的小情節和情節之下的生活真相，也能看到隱藏於真相之下的雄闊的歷史軌跡和現實走向。
該書作者安東·巴甫洛維奇·契訶夫是俄國的世界級短篇小說巨匠，是俄國19世紀末期最後一位批判現實主義藝術大師，與莫泊桑和歐·亨利並稱為“世界三大短篇小說家”，是一個有強烈幽默感的作家，他的小說緊湊精煉，言簡意賅，給讀者以獨立思考的餘地。其劇作對20世紀戲劇產生了很大的影響。他堅持現實主義傳統，注重描寫俄國人民的日常生活，塑造具有典型性格的小人物，藉此真實反映出當時俄國社會的狀況。他的作品的三大特徵是對丑惡現象的嘲笑與對貧苦人民的深切的同情，並且其作品無情地揭露了沙皇統治下的不合理的社會制度和社會的丑惡現象。他被認為19世紀末俄國現實主義文學的傑出代表。
8、《歐亨利短篇小說選集》
他是美國最著名的短篇小說家之一!他被譽為“世界短篇小說之王”“曼哈頓桂冠作家”!他描寫的美國社會和紐約百姓的生活，堪稱“美國生活的幽默網路全書”!他就是歐亨利!
作者歐·亨利，20世紀初美國著名短篇小說家，美國現代短篇小說創始人。與法國的莫泊桑、俄國的契訶夫並稱為世界三大短篇小說巨匠。 他少年時曾一心想當畫家，婚後在妻子的鼓勵下開始寫作。後因在銀行供職時的賬目問題而入獄，服刑期間認真寫作，並以“歐·亨利”為筆名發表了大量的短篇小說，引起讀者廣泛關注。他是一位高產的作家，一生中留下了一部長篇小說和近三百篇的短篇小說。
《歐亨利短篇小說選集》共收集了《心與手》《女巫的麵包》《麥琪的禮物》《二十年後》《財神與愛神》《紅酋長的贖金》《最後一片常春藤葉》等43篇最具代表性的歐亨利短篇小說。歐.亨利用獨特的幽默筆調，反映出鍍金時代各個方面遭到扭曲的生活，他呼喚真誠的感情，要求恢復正常的人性。
9、《獻給愛米麗的一朵玫瑰花》
濃縮福克納短篇創作精華，李文俊、陶潔領銜翻譯!《獻給愛米麗的一朵玫瑰花》是美國作家威廉·福克納的短篇小說。1930年4月發表在《論壇》雜志，引起極大反響。同年的諾貝爾文學獎獲得者美國作家辛克萊·劉易斯在其演說中提到了福克納，稱他“把南方從多愁善感的女人的眼淚中解放了出來”。
作者威廉福克納美國文學史上最具影響力的作家之一，意識流文學在美國的代表人物，1949年諾貝爾文學獎得主。瑞典學院對他的評價是：“他對當代美國小說做出了強有力的和藝術上無與倫比的貢獻”!
文章所描述的大概是美國南北戰爭以後的一個南方小鎮——傑弗生鎮上格里爾森家族的命運。作為家族族長的愛米麗的父親父權傾向嚴重維護所謂的等級和尊嚴，趕走了所有向愛米麗求愛的男子，剝奪她幸福的權利。父親去世後，愛米麗愛上了來小鎮修建鐵路的工頭北方人赫默。但愛米麗仍然沒有擺脫家族尊嚴的束縛與父親對她的影響辦法。當她發現赫默無意與她成家時，便用砒霜毒死了他。從此，愛米麗在破舊封閉的宅院里過著與世隔絕的生活，並與死屍同床共枕40年，直到她也去世。小鎮居民在艾米麗的葬禮上才發現了這個秘密。
10、《老婦與貓》
2007年諾貝爾文學獎獲得者多麗絲·萊辛作品!在萊辛那裡，女人永遠是“另外那個女人”，而貓則是“特別的貓”。與《金色筆記》那樣的長篇巨制相比，《老婦與貓》這本書里的中短篇小說顯得更輕盈，更有靈性，更展現出萊辛所獨有的魔力：既超然物外地冷酷，但又常常在剎那間，給你意外的溫暖一擊。作者多麗絲·萊辛，1919年生於伊朗，父母均為英國人。當代英國最重要的作家之一，筆名簡·薩默斯，被譽為繼伍爾芙之後最偉大的女性作家，並幾次獲得諾貝爾文學獎提名以及多個世界級文學獎項。被譽為繼伍爾芙之後英國最偉大的女性作家。作品風格多變，在歐洲各國獲得多種文學獎項，2007年獲諾貝爾文學獎。主要代表作有《青草低吟》、《金色筆記》、《第五個孩子》、《特別的貓》，以及“五部曲”《暴力的孩子們》等。
⑺ 有哪些值得推薦的短篇小說集
1、《契訶夫短篇小說選》，契訶夫(1860-1904)，俄國主要劇作家和短篇小說大師，以語言精練、准確見長，善於透過生活的表層進行探索，將人物隱蔽的動機揭露得淋漓盡致。
2、《項鏈》，採用了以物寫人的手法，將項鏈作為一條主線，從它與人物的多重關系出發，用它牢牢系住人物的行為、語言和心理活動，使讀者透過項鏈對女主人公的形象一目瞭然。
3、《麥琪的禮物》講述了一對窮困的年輕夫婦忍痛割愛互贈聖誕禮物的故事，反映了美國下層人民生活的艱難，贊美了主人公善良的心地和純真愛情。
4、《百萬英鎊》發表於1893年。講述了一個窮困潦倒的辦事員美國小夥子亨利·亞當斯在倫敦的一次奇遇。這部小說有一個很明顯的主題即對拜金主義的批判，此外作者還揭露了當時存在於英國社會中的種種滑稽荒誕的現象。
5、王小波《黃金時代》，是作品系列之「時代三部曲」中的一部作品，該系列入選《亞洲周刊》「二十世紀中文小說一百強」。
⑻ 有哪些值得推薦的短篇小說集
1、《南方高速》
簡介：阿根廷作家胡里奧·科塔薩爾的短篇小說集。收錄有《秘密武器》《克羅諾皮奧和法瑪的故事》《萬火歸一》三部短篇集，再現了科塔薩爾奇異神秘的想像世界。
⑼ 世界最著名的100篇短篇小說
世界最著名的100篇短篇小說如下。
《無所不知先生》毛姆。
毛姆的這篇不僅有趣，用極為有限的篇幅塑造的這個無所不知先生，最後的反轉也相當可愛。
《音樂迷楊科》顯克維奇。
經典之作，全本唯一淚目篇章。前面極力鋪陳楊科對音樂之愛，之後病榻上那句詢問才顯得那麼有力。
「媽媽，在天堂那裡，上帝會給我一把真正的小提琴嗎？」
《廁中成佛》川端康成。
這篇可謂是全篇最有趣之首。文末的轉折讓人捧腹。
《投水就助業》菊池寬。
第一次看菊池寬的文章，讀起來非常舒適，懸念營造的很好，而且呼應的極好，老太太不理解自殺者為什麼不感激她，等她自殺時，她或許仍未感覺到，但讀者已經恍然大悟了。高明的寫法。
《父》芥川龍之介。
這篇上學的時候做過閱讀題。極其短小精悍，結尾的幾個字真見功力，沒有那「能勢素來孝敬」這幾個字，諷刺力要差很多。對車上高潮場面的描寫更是一絕，不寫能勢說話時的表情，留白之處令人拍手叫絕。
《本尼 歐戰 邁爾遜的女兒貝拉》。
對戰爭後遺症的本尼的刻畫入木三分。
《弄假成真的死者》布扎蒂。
構思精巧，棺材合上的一剎那給予人以思考，人的社會存在或許比生命機理上的存在更為重要。
《看不見的珍藏》茨威格。
茨威格不用多說。
《飢餓藝術家》卡夫卡。
卡夫卡的自我寫照。
《沒有歸還的一天》帕皮尼。
構思神奇，結局痛心。
誰不願意在垂垂老矣的時候享受片刻青春年華呢。
《二十六個和一個》高爾基。
《馬鐵奧大義滅親》。
梅里美不愧為短篇小說大手，馬鐵奧因為兒子的背叛行為大義滅親，看起來震撼不已。
《穿牆記》埃梅。
生動有趣，夾在牆里的杜蒂耶先生。
《聖母的雜耍藝人》法郎士。
雜耍藝人信仰之後，如何為自己的信仰做出最大的努力，就是拿自己最熱愛的東西奉獻給上帝。看完之後我仍不理解什麼是宗教，但我懂了什麼叫虔誠。
《情人的形象》波德萊爾。
幾個男人討論關於自己和女人相處的故事，大段語言很生動，並不沉悶。
《騎桶者》卡夫卡。
《掘墓人》里爾克。
少女愛上掘墓人。
《俄羅斯人的性格》。
變臉的士兵回家的遭遇。
《清兵衛和葫蘆》志賀直哉。
日本人獨有的幽默。
《大衛斯旺》霍桑。
大衛斯旺在湖邊經歷了愛神 財神 死神的考驗，卻毫無察覺。我們身邊有擦肩而過多少神奇的事情呢。
《西西里檸檬》皮蘭德婁。
少女沉淪記，不需要去敘述少女怎樣怎樣，她出場幾面，簡單幾句就刻畫出人物立場來，西西里檸檬真是酸澀，如同人生一樣。密庫喬用盡全力將苔萊季娜送到上流社會，自己卻被拋棄。
《最好的顧客》特羅亞。
懸念營造的很好，結尾略感無力。
《時來運轉》德呂翁。
富人要一個窮人每天替他去賭場輸錢，因為他相信，總有一天會時來運轉，結果果真如此，窮人賺了遠勝於他虧空的大錢。還算有趣。
《馬車》果戈里。
諷刺很深，地主諂媚軍官 。
《陪襯人》。
《老廚師》。
《產品質量》。
《敞開的窗戶》。
《廚房殺人案》。
《加拉維拉斯顯馳名的跳蛙》。
《九個裡面挑哪個》。
《美女還是老虎》。
《雅閣逃亡記》。