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 Port
【作者简介】
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.
【目录】
The Garden Party--Katherine Mansfield The Three-Day Blow--Ernest Hemingway The Standard of Living--Dorothy Parker The Saint--E S. Pritchett The Other Side of the Hedge--E. M. Forster Brooksmith-Henry James The Juekey--Carson McCullers The Courting of Dinah Shadd--Rudyard Kipling The Shot--Alexander Poushkin (tratislated by T. Keane) Graven Image--John O’Ham Putois--Anatole France (translated by Frederic Chapman) Only the Dead Know Brooklyn--Thomas Welfe A. V. Laider--Max Beerbohm The Lottery--Shirley Jackson The Masque of the Red De, ath--Edgar Allan Poe LookingBack--Guy de Maupassant (translated by H. N. P. Sloman) The Man Higher Up--O. Henry The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse-- William Saroyan The Other Two--Edith Wharton Theft--Katherine Anne Porter A Good Man Is Hard to Find--Flannery O’Connor The Man of the House--Frank O’Connor The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles-- Edmund Wilson The Gioconda Sndle--Aldous Huxley The Curfcw Tolls--Stephen Vincent Benet Father Wakes Up the Village--Clarence Day Ivy Day in the Committee Room--James Joyce The Chrysanthemums--John Steinbeck The Door--E. B. White An Upheaval--Anton Chekhov How Beautiful with Shoes--Wilbur Daniel Steele A Haunted Houso--Virginia Woolf The Catbird Seat--James Thurber The Schartz-Metterklume Method--“Sald" (1-1. H. Munro) The Death of a Bachelor--Arthur Schnitzler The ApoState--George Milburn The Phoenix--Sylvia Townsend Warner That Evening Sun--William Faulkner The Law--Robert M. Coates The Tale--Joseph Conrad A Girl from Red Lion, RA.--H. L. Mencken Main Currents of American Thought--Irw/n Shaw. The Ghosts--Lord Dunsany The Minister’s Black Veil--Nathaniel Hawthorne A String of Beads--W. Somerset Maugham The Golden Honeymoon--Ring Lardner The Man Who Could Work Miraeles--H. G. Wells The Foreigner--Francis Steegrauller Thrawn Janet--Robert Louis Stevenson The Chaser--John Collier Title Index Author Index
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