英語短篇小說鑒賞
㈠ 英語短篇小說賞析的內容簡介
每章含兩篇小說，每篇選文均有作者簡介、語言和文化知識上的中文解釋和思考題。書末的附錄一是「小說評析寫作要點」，對如何寫作評析小說的論文做了簡要講解，並列出了系列相關問題啟發學生寫作時思考。附錄二是分析著名作家詹姆斯·喬伊斯的小說《阿拉比》的範文5篇，它們分別剖析了該小說的背景和氛圍、象徵、神話與原型、視點和人物。附錄三是「小說評析常見術語」，對所列的每一條術語做了簡要解釋。本書旨在幫助學生通過學習這些短篇小說，提高閱讀理解能力、賞析文學作品的能力和寫作水平，增進學生對於英語國家的社會文化知識和風土人情的了解，提高人文素養。本教材可供開設大學英語選修課使用，亦可作為自學英語的讀本。
㈡ 適合初學者看的英文小說
一、Charlie and the Chocolate Factory《查理和他的克工廠》
一本有趣好看而充滿想像力的童話小說，講述了窮孩子查理幸運拿到可以進入巧克力工廠參觀的金券後，一系列的奇遇。 在書中可以看到，小查理和他的家裡人過的生活雖然貧窮，可他們深深地懂得愛，這維持了他們除生活外的一切滿足感，看完如果意猶未盡，還可以看看同名電影。
二、The wonderful wizard of Oz《綠野仙蹤》
故事講述了小蘿莉多蘿西被大風吹到一個奇異國度(奧茲國)的奇遇記。這個可愛的小故事里有一個善良的小蘿莉，一個稻草人，一個鐵皮機器人與一個獅子。短小精悍，沒什麼難度，易讀易懂，卻又引人入勝。
三、Flipped《怦然心動》
這本便是同名電影的原著小說，它講述了一個單純美好的故事，裡面有美好的田園風光和校園生活，還有屬於布萊斯和朱莉的故事。小說要比電影有意思很多，相信你看的時候一定會笑出聲來。敘述以男孩和女孩視角的章節交錯進行，畫面感很強。
四、Hyperbole and a Half- Allie Brosh我幼稚的時候好有范
比爾蓋茨2015年的推薦書單里就有這本奇特的小書，他說道：你會希望小說更長，因為這些故事很有趣，很睿智。它故事短小，畫風奇特，非常適合於碎片時間閱讀。
五、The little word of Liz Climo你今天真好看
這本畫風萌系、溫暖的治癒系，收錄了莉茲克里莫150多張逗趣漫畫和小說情節。畫中的故事簡單卻動人，圍繞著各種萌萌的小動物展開，有兔子，蜥蜴，棕熊，企鵝等。簡短有趣的句子配上可愛清新的漫畫，很快就可以看完。
㈢ 跪求3-5篇英語短篇小說的主要內容與人物評價！！！（用英文！~）
2. In a small town of st petersburg, have a very naughty, but a good boy, tom, he hates school for the insipidity of the life, hoping that can and the like the exciting life. one day, tom and huckleberry had left home and went to a desert island, a few days of his life. they know that a case, a critical moment, tom has a very fierce ： joe. tom was afraid of retaliation by joe,Was always uneasy. he and huckleberry a haunted house when he found joe, then the murderer death in the cave. tom and huck ley had a lot of coins.
1。The old man and the sea is a fisherman eighty-four days have hooked a fish, and nearly died of hunger ； but he still wouldn't admit defeat in the eighty-fifth day catches a great fish. fish mullin pulled the boat to the sea, but the old man still held, even if there is no water, no food, no, no, he does not lose heart. after two days and nights later, he eventually killed the fish, and put it on a ship.But many of the shark was immediately come to rob him of killing them, all ； him to last only a broken on the tiller as a weapon. however, the fish were still wet, finally, the old man just dragged a 魚骨 head. he went home in bed, from dreams of yesteryear to find a good time.
㈣ 英語短篇小說賞析的作者簡介
程錫麟
四川大學外國語學院英文系教授, 博士生導師。四川省學術與技術帶頭人。
研究方向：美國文學、小說理論。
學歷：1969年四川外語學院英語專業本科畢業；1981年四川大學英語專業研究生畢業，文學碩士。
學術兼職及主要學術活動經歷：全國美國文學研究會理事，中外文藝理論學會敘事學分會理事，美國現代語文學會（MLA）會員。曾多次獲得包括富布賴特基金會和哈佛—燕京基金會等在內的著名基金會資助在國（境）外著名學府從事學術交流和研究工作：1988-1989年美國芝加哥大學富布賴特學者；1993年和1998年兩度應邀參加德國斯圖加特大學主辦的斯圖加特文化研討會；1998年香港大學、美國弗吉尼亞大學高訪學者；1999-2000年美國哈佛大學高訪學者；2004年香港大學高訪學者。
已完成國家社科基金九五規劃課題「當代美國小說理論研究」、教育部人文社科十五規劃項目「佐拉. 尼爾. 赫斯頓研究」。
獲獎：《女性的奧秘》獲2001年四川省政府哲學社會科學優秀成果三等獎。《當代美國小說理論》獲2003年四川省政府哲學社會科學優秀成果三等獎獎。
㈤ 愛倫坡作品英文賞析
Edgar Allan Poe (EdgarAllanPoe) 1809 on 19 years 1, born in the United States, Massachusetts (Massachusetts) City of Boston (Bosten), 1849 on 10 years 7 in Maryland (Maryland) Baltimore City (Baltimore) died , only 40 years old.
In January 1809, in Boston City, a touring troupe of actors David slope of two (DavidPoe) and Elizabeth Arnold (ELizabethAnold) After a romantic marriage gave birth to Edgar. At that time, the United States,turmoil of life, low income, and do not seriously held in high esteem. Is a star of David every day because of alcohol interrupted career. Years of age when Edgar, David ran away from home, and gone forever. A year later, Elizabeth alone because he could not bring up three sons (Edgar and longer than their one-year-old brother and the small one-year-old sister) is a heavy burden, broken down from constant overwork, died. Richmond in Virginia City, the three orphans, penniless, and no one care. Fortunately, there are several well-intentioned people have to take them home. Edgar was the city wealthy John Allan (JohnAllan) to accept President. However, he has not been a formal adoption process. Edgar is perhaps the gratitude of their good intentions, or a change of surname Ellen, Ellen in 1824 after the middle name as their own, and this is the history of Edgar Allan Poe First Name Last Name.
Edgar Allen with a left for Britain, where he enrolled in primary school and accepted the basis of formal ecation, which lasted 6 years. He later put this experience into a semi-autobiographical novel "William Wilson" (WilliamWilson) years. After the primary, he returned to the United States with Mr. Allen to stay in school. He is a sensitive boy, outstanding, very cynical temperament. Teens, he and the relationship between the adoptive father began to deteriorate, the last tip of the wheat. Until this situation only when love dies eased. At the University of Virginia (theUniversityofVirginia) study period, the slope of the Institute of gambling, he was soon heavily in debt. Mr. Allen, he refused for a gambling debt, he also brought back home, let him in their own firms to do business in school. Edgar is very angry, after the big argument with a home to Boston. Mr. Allen was a son of, then cut off Mr. Edgar Allan there share from the idea of property, (in Mr. Allen's will was indeed Edgar did not say a word, he may be hurt Too many hearts and minds now.) Edgar Chuang only way out since the beginning of the text in order to sell the difficult process of living.
While in Boston, he had called at their own expense anonymous "with fungus" (Tamerlane) a small collection of poems. Later he joined the Army in 1829 with funding from the publication of a friend named " (AlAaroaf) of poetry, including sonnet "To Science" (Sonnet-ToScience) and the Long Poem, "with fungus "". " 1830, in the help of Mr. Allen, he's a West Point a year later because he deliberately serious dereliction of ty and discipline and dismissal. He has published in New York, "Edgar A slope of poetry" (PoemsbyEdgarAllonPoe), of which the income of the "To Helen" (ToHelen), "City of the sea" (TheCityintheSea) of poetry, etc..
㈥ 英語短篇文章賞析
英語短文寫作是運用語言的尖端高級表達方式,英語短文表達地道流暢、正確透徹地表達觀點。下面是我帶來的英語短篇 文章 賞析，歡迎閱讀!
英語短篇文章賞析1
Things My 25-Year-Old Self Would Like to Tell Me on My 50th Birthday**
25歲的我寫給50歲的我
Don't try so hard to be respectable. Speak from your heart about what you truly believe, even if it makes you look naïve or sentimental.
不要太用力去得到社會的認可。傾聽你內心真正相信的東西，即使這會讓你看起來天真或傷感。
You can radically change your life when/if you need to. You don't need to keep doing what you have been doing, just because you are in the habit of doing it.
你可以徹底改變你的生活，只要你想去改變。你不需要因為習慣了做一件事，就繼續做下去。
Being friendly and open to meeting new people in random places can lead to cool adventures and friendships. Don't get too comfortable in your present circles of acquaintances.
對在任何地方遇到的陌生人都抱著開放和友好的態度，可能會給你帶來炫酷的經歷和友情。別太陷在你現在的熟人圈子裡。
You need way less money than you think to survive, stop obsessing about it, and just spend less.
生活必需的錢比你想像得要少得多，不要迷戀錢，少花就是。
It's OK not to know what you want to do for the rest of your life. Leave space for the completely unexpected to happen.
你不知道自己餘生想做什麼也OK，剛好為完全未知的事情留出空間。
God loves you even more because you are a bit of a freak. Don't hide your light under a button-down bushel.
如果你有一點瘋狂，上帝會更愛你的。千萬不要掩藏你的才華。
Leave your door without any purpose once in a while and see where the city takes you. Don't just stay on the path between your apartment, work and the gym.
偶爾毫無目的地出去走走，看看你生活的城市能帶你去哪兒。不要固定在家、公司、健身房三點之間。
Hang out with your long-time friends more and contact those with whom you have lost touch. You don't seem to have as many friends as you used to.
多多與多年老友碰面，重新找到失去聯系的朋友。因為你會發現自己沒原來那麼多朋友了。
Ambition is overrated. Stop trying so hard to be "successful."
抱負被抬得過高。不要費勁全力只為了所謂的“成功”。
It's a good thing to believe that a utopian society where everyone is treated with dignity and equality is possible and worth working for. Cynicism doesn't make you intelligent -- it just makes you cynical.
相信人人平等、有尊嚴的烏托邦社會可以實現，並願為實現這一目標而努力是好事。但憤世嫉俗不會讓你變聰明，只會讓你變得憤世嫉俗。
Create art every once in a while. Even though you aren't particularly talented and nobody really loved your 'nude portrait under autumn leaves' the creative process is good for your soul.
偶爾搞搞藝術。就算你沒有特別的才華，就算沒有人欣賞你的“秋天落葉下的裸體自畫像”，創造的過程也能美化你的靈魂。
The next time you hear yourself reminiscing about how you "used to do something," make a plan to do it. Studying dance, carving pumpkins for Halloween, and doing improv shouldn't all be thought of in the past tense.
下一次你再回憶起當年“做什麼事”的時候，制定一個重新開始的計劃吧。學跳舞、刻 萬聖節 南瓜、即興表演都不應該存在於過去式中。
Don't just give money, go volunteer somewhere so you can have direct interactions with people. Your life is too antiseptic and it is making you a bit boring.
不要只是捐錢，去某個地方做志願者吧，這樣你就可以和別人直接互動。你的生活太“防腐”了，你開始覺得有點無聊了吧。
You should be so crazy thankful that you found love with Brad. You spent a lot of time very lonely, never thinking you would find such an amazing guy. Don't let a day go by without remembering how fortunate you are.
找到另一半你絕對應該謝天謝地。你一個人那麼久了，哪裡會想到你會遇到這么好的人。活著的每一天都要記得你是多麼的幸運。
Try a new sport! The routine of cardio and weights just to look decent is getting old. You were an athlete! Get back into swimming and sign up for the race across the East River or take up boxing.
嘗試新的運動!有氧運動和舉啞鈴的慣例已經老套了。你以前可是運動員!重新開始 游泳 ，報名跨河跑步比賽，或是學學 拳擊 吧。
When did you become such a preppy bore? You used to not be afraid to stand out and it wouldn't kill you to wear something a bit more fashion-forward once in a while.
你什麼時候變得這么保守這么無趣?你曾經不怕引人注目的，你也曾偶爾穿上時髦前衛的衣服。
Your parents were there for you, even when you were going through rough times and, frankly, a bit of a brat. They need you now. You will never regret the time you spend with them.
你的父母過去一直支持你，即使在你經歷最難熬的日子的時候，或是你淘氣的時候。他們現在需要你。多和他們在一起，你永遠不會後悔的。
Find ways to be alone in the woods or on the water by yourself. Don't forget how much you value solitude in nature.
想辦法去一個人在森林裡或在水上待著。別忘了你有多重視那份在大自然中的孤獨感。
Find a group that has been formed within the last five years and buy a new CD.
找一個5年內成立的樂隊，買一張他們的新CD。
Stop beating yourself up about mistakes that you have made. It's good to be self-critical, but you need to be compassionate as well.
別再為犯過的錯自責了，自我批評雖好，但你也需要有同情心啊。
If you can be a parent to a child of your own then do it! You've always wanted to have a family. If that doesn't work out, be the best uncle to your nephews and nieces. They make you so proud.
如果你可以做父母，一定要做!你一直都想有個家。如果沒做成，那就做侄子侄女的好叔叔好舅舅吧。他們都會讓你驕傲的。
Value every day you have. At 25 I never thought you would live to be 50. Celebrate your life.
珍惜你的每一天。25歲的時候我從沒想到你會活到50歲。慶祝你的人生吧。
英語短篇文章賞析2
“青年菜君”的魔法
Outside of Huilongguan subway station, Beijing, is a small shop called Mr Food that sells vegetables and meat. Many people who live in this most populous residential community stop by Mr Food to pickup groceries ordered online.
在北京，一出回龍觀地鐵站，就可以看到一家不大的蔬菜生鮮店，名為青年菜君。這個人口眾多的社區里，有很多居民都會在此停留，提走他們在網上訂好的菜。
Surprisingly, the shop’s founders are three 28-year-old sociology graates from Renmin University of China. Instead of founding a business related to their major, they founded one that addresses a market need.
令人驚訝的是，這家店的創始人是三個28歲的年青人，他們都 畢業 於中國人民大學社會學專業。他們並沒有選擇與自己專業相關的領域創業，而是依照市場需求起家。
Career shift
職業生涯的轉變
Ren Mu, one of Mr Food’s founders, has worked as a public relations specialist at a Beijing-based company before setting up the new business. As a PR consultant, he often rode the subway to and from work. After pulling himself from the crowd at Huilongguan station, he often felt lonely and exhausted, missing the feeling of home-cooked meals prepared by his mother.
青年菜君的創始人之一，任牧，在創業前曾在一家北京公司擔任公共關系顧問。那時，他常常坐地鐵上下班，每每當他擠出回龍觀地鐵站時，他總是感到孤單而又筋疲力盡，懷念媽媽在家做飯時的感覺。
“After moving from Shandong to Beijing, the only inconvenience I ever felt was when I was deciding what to have for dinner,” he said. He’d often eat at a small restaurant nearby, but the food often didn’t taste good and was unsanitary. So, he decided to start selling his own ingredients.
他說，“從山東來到北京之後，唯一的不方便就是我會常常發愁吃什麼。”他常常在附近的小飯館解決晚飯，但是那裡的飯菜既不可口又不衛生。於是，任牧決定自己賣菜。
Researching success
好調查是成功的一半
He came up with the idea for this new startup after a lot of trial and error. “I made several startup attempts, but none of them worked because of a lack of market research,” he said. So when he discussed this business idea with his partners. They made market research their first step.
在形成最終創意之前，任牧也有過很多失敗的嘗試。他說，“我曾幾次嘗試創業，但都因為缺乏市場調研而失敗了。”所以當他與幾位合夥人討論這次的想法時，他們首先進行了 市場調查 。
For an entire week, Ren went to Xinfadi, Beijing’s biggest wholesale market for meat and vegetables, on a daily basis. “I wrote down the price of dozens of vegetables, while my two partners took note of prices at supermarkets and vegetable vendors,” he said. They compared their findings in order to make sure they put their groceries at the right price point.
整整一個星期，任牧每天都去北京最大蔬菜生鮮批發市場——新發地，他說，“我負責記錄(新發地)各種蔬菜的價格，而另外兩個合夥人則負責記錄超市和蔬菜小販那裡的價格。”他們比較各自的價格，最終確定他們商店的蔬菜價格。
“The profit margin when selling vegetables is about 100 percent. Make it simple, if a vegetable is sold at 1 yuan per 500 g at Xinfadi, then it can be sold at 2 yuan per 500 g in the supermarket, and 3 to 4 yuan at vegetable vendors in residential areas,” he said.
任牧說，“買菜的利潤率差不多100%，簡單而言，就是如果某樣蔬菜在新發地賣1塊錢一斤，那麼它在超市就可以買到2塊錢，在社區蔬菜小販那裡就要賣3到4塊錢。”
Targeted service
針對性服務
However, Ren and his partners faced another challenge — how they could compete with other vegetable vendors. They took aim at office workers, who want to eat healthy food yet have little time to actually cook.
但是，任牧與他的合夥人還要面對另一個挑戰：如何勝過其他蔬菜商?他們將目標鎖定在白領身上，這些人希望吃得健康卻沒有時間下廚。
“We do all the preparation for them, cutting vegetables and meat to ready-to-cook form,” Ren said. “If they don’t know how to cook and what to put in the dish, we even have packed vegetables and meat for certain dishes.”
任牧說，“於是，我們就為他們做好所有的准備，包括切菜切肉，讓食材能立刻下鍋。如果他們不會做飯，不知道某道菜要放些什麼，我們甚至會根據特定的菜餚為他打包蔬菜和肉。”
Now with a concrete business idea and solid market research under their belt, Ren and his partners opened their first store in March and second chain store in April. In total, they have attracted thousands of frequent customers and over 10 million yuan from angel investors.
在扎實的市場調研並形成具體的創業方案之後，今年3月，他們的第一家店開業，4月，他們的第二家連鎖店也開業了。他們不僅吸引了成千上萬的老顧客，而且還獲得了天使投資1000萬的投資。
英語短篇文章賞析3
Life Comes in a Package
人生似旅行
Life comes in a package. This package includes happiness and sorrow,failure and success, hope and despair. Life is a learning process. Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day we learn to handle various situations.
人生好似一個包裹，這個包裹里藏著快樂與悲傷、成功與失敗，希望與絕望。人生也是一個學習的過程。那些經歷給我們上了全新的課，讓我們變得更好。隨著每一天的過去，我們學會了處理各種各樣的問題。
Love. Love plays a pivotal role on out life. Love makes you feel wanted.Without love a person could go hayward and also become cruel and ferocious. In the early stage of our life, our parents are the ones who shower us with unconditional love and care, they teach us about what is right andwrong, good and bad. But we always tend to take this for granted. It is only after marriage and having kids that a person understands and becomes sensitive to others feelings.Kids make a person responsibleand mature and help us to understand life better.
愛。愛在生活之外扮演了一個關鍵的角色。愛使你想要得到些什麼。沒有愛，一個人將走向不歸路，變得凶暴、殘忍。在我們最初的人生道路上，我們的父母給予了我們無條件的關愛，他們教會我們判斷正確與錯誤、好與壞。然而我們常常把這想當然了，只有等到我們結了婚並且有了孩子之後，一個人才會懂得並注意別人的感受。孩子讓我們變得富有責任心、變得成熟穩重，並且更好的理解人生。
Happiness and Sorrow. Materialistic happiness is short-lived, but happiness achieved by bringing a smile on others face gives a certain level of fulfillment.Peace of mind is the main link to happiness. No mind is happy without peace. We realize the true worth of happiness when we are in sorrow. Sorrow is basically e to death of a loved one, failure and despair. But these things are temporary and pass away.
快樂與悲傷。物質上的快樂往往是短暫的，然而，當你給予他人一個微笑的時候，那種滿足卻是無與倫比的。心靈的平靜往往是快樂的源泉。沒有平和的心態就沒有快樂的心情。在傷心的時候，我們往往能夠體會到快樂的真諦。悲傷基本都來自於一個愛人的去世、失敗還有絕望，但是這樣的事情都是暫時的，總會過去的。
Failure and Success. Failure is the path to success. It helps us to touch the sky, teaches us to survive and shows us a specific way. Success brings in money,fame, pride and self-respect. Here it becomes very important to keep our head on out shoulder. The only way to show our gratitude to god for bestowing success on us is by being humble, modest, courteous and respectful to the less fortunate ones.
失敗與成功。失敗是成功之母。它讓我們觸及藍天，它教會我們如何生存，它給予我們一條特殊的路。成功給予我們金錢、名譽、驕傲和自尊。這里，保持頭腦清醒便顯得尤為重要。唯一能讓我們感激上帝給予的成功便是始終卑微、謙虛、禮貌並且尊重沒有我們幸運的人們。
Hope and Despair. Hope is what keeps life going. Parents always hope their children will do well. Hope makes us dream. Hope builds in patience. Life teaches us not to despair even in the darkest hour, because after every night there is a day. Nothing remains the same we have only one choice keep moving on in life and be hopeful.
希望與絕望。希望是人生動力之源。父母總是希望自己的孩子能夠做得很好。希望使我們有夢想。希望使我們變得有耐心。人生教會我們即使是在最困難的時候都不要絕望，因為黑暗之後終將是黎明。沒有什麼事是一成不變的，我們惟有充滿希望地繼續生活。
Life teaches us not to regret over yesterday, for it has passed and is beyond our control. Tomorrow is unknown, for it could either be bright or ll. So the only alternative is work hard today, so that we will enjoy a better tomorrow.
人生教會我們不要對過去的事感到後悔，因為過去的終究是過去了並且我們已無法控制。沒人知道明天會是怎樣，因為它可以是光明的同樣也可以是無趣的。所以，唯一的選擇便是在今天努力工作，這樣才能讓我們去享受更美好的明天。
㈦ 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」。
㈧ 英語短篇小說賞析的目錄
ChapterⅠPlotandStructure
O.HenryTheFurnishedRoom
ChapterⅡCharacter
JamesJoyceAraby
AliceWalkerEverydayUse
ChapterⅢPointofView
EdgarAllanPoeTheTell-TaleHeart
KatherineMansfieldMissBrill
ChapterⅣSetting
AmyTanAPairofTickets
CynthiaOzickTheShawl
ChapterⅤTheme
BernardMalamudTheJewbird
GishJenIntheAmericanSociety
ChapterⅥSymbolismandAllegory
AnnBeattieJanus
D.H.LawrenceTheRocking-HorseWinner
ChapterⅦLageandStyle
ErnestHemingwayAClean,Well-LightedPlace
JohnUpdikeA&P
AppendixⅠHowtoWriteaboutaStory?
AppendixⅡSampleEssays:AnalyzingJamesJoyce'sShortStoryAraby
AppendixⅢGlossaryofLiteraryTerms
Bibliography
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