英文小说短篇推荐

《英国短篇小说精选2:英文》不仅编选英国已故作家的短篇小说最佳代表，而且力求向读者介绍更多的仍活跃在英国当今文坛上的名作家，包括格雷夫斯，普里特切特，格林，威尔逊等人。《英国短篇小说精选2:英文》包括的15个短篇小说可代表这一文学品种的黄金时代。

经典英语短篇小说推荐如下：1、密西西比河上的马戏团男孩 The Circus Boys On the M简介： 本书是1910-1920出版的一套儿童系列丛书中的一本，讲述了两个男孩离家加入马戏团的故事。达灵顿先生用大师之笔，向我们描绘了马戏团生活的真实画面。...2、Around the World in Seventy-Two DaysIn 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time. A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November 14, 1889...3、The Aspern Papers简介： With a decaying Venetian villa as a backdrop, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest for the personal documents of a deceased Romantic poet, one Jeffrey Aspern. Led by his mission into increasingly unscrupulous behavior, he is ul...4、At the Back of the North WindThere was once a little boy named Diamond and he slept in a low room over a coach house. In fact, his room was just a loft where they kept hay and straw and oats for the horses. Little Diamonds father was a coachman and he had named his boy..

D.H. Lawrence的"The Rocking-Horse Winner".（《木马赢家》）讲述了一个家庭被金钱蒙蔽了双眼，亲情不再，人与人之间的关系被物质异化的故事。一向都是劳伦斯最擅长描绘的物质主义下人的异变的故事。劳伦斯的词句不难，但是每个词底下暗流涌动，生机勃勃，文风自成一派。作为初入门的劳伦斯研究者，我觉得开口评价这位英国文学大师，已经诚惶诚恐。劳伦斯的长篇小说如《查泰莱夫人的情人》，《儿子与情人》都脍炙人口，但是短篇小说也许在国内受众不多。这篇"The Rocking-Horse Winner"是不可多得的佳作，值得一读。