基本介紹
內容簡介,作者簡介,作品目錄,
內容簡介
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common–the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction.
作者簡介
Milton Crane is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at George Washington University and the University of Chicago. His is the author several books and articles on English literature, as well as the editor of the Bantam anthology, 50 Great American Short Stories.
作品目錄
The GardenParty-KatherineMansfield
TheThree-Day Blow—ErnestHemingway
The Standard of Living—Dorothy Parker
The Saint—V.S Pritchett
The Other Side ofthe Hedge—EMForster
Brooksmith—HenryJames
The Joekey—Carson McCullers
TheCourting ofDinah Shadd—RudyardKipling
The Shot—AlexanderPoushkin(translated by Keane)
GravenImage—John O'Hara
Putois—-AnatoleFrance(translatedbyFredericChapman)
OnlytheDead Know B-Thomas Wolye
AV Laider—Max Beerbohm
The Lottery—hirleyJackson
TheMasque ofthe Red Death—Edgar Allan Poe
