马克·吐温的短篇小说犹如一颗颗璀璨的明珠,折射出他那个时代美国人民丰富的精神世界以及他们的物质生活的风貌。《马克·吐温短篇小说选》收录了他的数十篇短篇小说,有的文章讽刺宗教的伪善和人们价值观的颠倒,有的探讨社会发展和环境保护,有的探讨人类和动物的关系,当然还有以人类最初无知的眼光思考混沌之初的世界。
The □1, 000,000 Bank-Note
Playing Courier
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Story of the Bad Little Boy
Journalism in Tennessee
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
The Facts in the Great Beef Contract
The Story of the Good Little Boy
Experience of the McWilliamses with
Membranous Croup
My Watch: An Instructive Little Tale
A Curious Dream: Containing a Moral
The Invalid's Story
A Curious Experience
The Californian's Tale
Is He Living or Is He Dead?
A Dog's Tale
The $30,000 Bequest
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit
to Heaven
Legend of the Capitoline Venus
Edward Mills and George Benton= A Tale
The Stolen White Elephant
A Fable
Some Learned FabJes For Good Old Boys
And Gifts
The Man that corrupted Hadleyburg
Mrs, McWilliams and the Lightning
The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
A Ghost Story
A Medieval Romance