改革开放30年来,高校“英语热”持续升温。非英语专业的同学们,不但认真练好英语基本功,刻苦学习专业英语,而且想读点美国小说,了解美国社会的方方面面,掌握英语的文化和历史背景,进一步提高英语水平。这是个良好的愿望,值得重视和支持。
为了满足同学们的需要,范小玫副教授编选了这部《美国短篇小说选读》。它将为非英语专业的同学了解美国短篇小说提供一个快捷的平台。
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Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
Edgar Allan Poe
The Masque of the Red Death
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Minister's Black Veil
Mark Twain
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi
Sherwood Anderson
Sophistication
Katherine Anne Porter
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
Ernest Hemingway
Hills Like White Elephants
Eudora Welty
A Worn Path
Bernard Malamud
The First Seven Years
John Chcever
The Death of Justina
John Updike
My Father on the Verge of Disgrace
Alice Walker
Everyday Use
Ursula K. Le Guin
She Unnames Them
William Gibson
The Gernsback Continuum
Don DeLillo
The Ivory Acrobat
Amy Tan
Two Kinds
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