本书共收集了20篇短篇小说的精彩部分，通过所展示的语言、丰富的内容帮助学生和广大读者分析、赏析、评介不同流派作品的基本技巧、创作风格、写作主题等。全书是按年表的顺序编写的，很好地呈现了短篇小说简短的发展历史及要素，同时也向我们展示了短篇小说在过去几百年来在这个年轻而富有创造的文学形态中所取得的较高成就。

Preface

A Brief History of Short FictiOn

The Elements of Short FictiOn 

Nathaniel Hawfhorne

Y0ung Goodman Brown 

Edgar AlIan Poe 

The FaU of the House of Usher

Sarah 0rne Jeweff

A White Heron

Charloffe PerkinS Gilan

The Yellow Wall—Paper 

Sherwood Anderson

Death in the Woods 

JameS Joyce 

Araby

Virgina Woolf

Kew Gardens 

Franz Kafka

A Country Doctor 

ISak DineSen

The Blue Jar

DaVid Herbert Lawrence

The Horse—Dealer’s Daughter

Kathe rlne ManSfield

The Garden Party 

Katherine Anne P0rfer

Theft 

William Faulkner

A Rose for Emily

Emest Hemjngway

Hills like White Elephants

Vladimjr Nabokoy 

Signs and Symbols

Eudora Welly

A Worn Path

J0hn Cheever

The Enormous Radio 

Doris Lessing 

Through the Tunnel 

Gabrjel Garcfa Marquez

A Very old Man with Enormous Wings

AIice WaIker

Everyday Use

Reflerences