英美短篇小说精粹

Unit Ⅰ Sir Walter Scott

Ⅰ.Brief Introduction to the Authol

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. Death of the Lairds Jock

2. The Tapestried Chamber

Unit Ⅱ Washington Irving

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. The Widow and Her Son

2. Rip Van Winkle

Unit Ⅲ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. The Ministers Black Veil

2. Young Goodman Brown

Unit Ⅳ Edgar Allan Poe

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. The Tell-Tale Heart

2. Thou Art the Man

Unit Ⅴ Charles Dickens

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. The Childs Story

2. The Detective Police

Unit Ⅵ Herman Melville

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Readings

1. The Lightning-Rod Man

2. The Bell-Tower

Unit Ⅶ Mark Twain

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. Running for Governor

2. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Unit Ⅷ Robert Louis Stevenson

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. The Touchstone

2. The Song of the Morrow

Unit Ⅸ Oscar Wilde

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. The Sphinx without a Secret

2. The Nightingale and the Rose

Unit Ⅹ Joseph Conrad

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. The Lagoon

2. II Conde

Unit Ⅺ O. Henry

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

2. Gift of the Magi

Unit Ⅻ Stephen Crane

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. The Duel That Was Not Fought

2. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

Unit ⅩⅢ Virginia Woolf

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. The String Quartet

2. The Mark on the Wall

Unit ⅩⅣ James doyce

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. Araby

2. A Mother

Unit ⅩⅤ Katherine Mansfield

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. The Woman at the Store

2. Mr. and Mrs. Dove

Unit ⅩⅥ William Faulkner

Ⅰ. Brief Introduction to the Author

Ⅱ. Selected Reading

1. A Rose for Emily

2. That Evening Sun

Appendix A Brief History of the Short Story

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