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1、美国短篇小说阅读和理解主编梁亚平编委刑利娜扬波姜艳艳张艳扬勇阜阳师范学院外语系166Contents1.RipVanWinckle(WashingtonIrving)……………………..2.TheCaskofAmontillado(EdgarAllenPoe)……………….3.TheMinister’sBlackVeil(NathanelHawthorne)……………………4.TheStoryofanHour(KateChopin)…………………………..5.TheCelebratingJumpingFro

2、gofCalavenasCounty(MarkTwain)………………6.TheCopandtheAnthem(O.Henry)……………….7.TheHouseofMapichi(JackLondon)………………….8.TheOpenBoat(StephenCrane)………………….9.NiggerJeff(ThoeredoreDreiser)………………..10.DeathintheWoods(SherwoodAnderson)……….11.TheJiltingofGrannyWeatheral(A

3、nnePorter)………………12.TheSnowofKilimanjaro(ErnestHemingway)……………………13.BabylonRevisited(F.ScottFitzgerald)………………14.ARoseforAmily(WilliamFaulkner)………………15.Flights(JohnSteinbeck)……………..16.TheMagicBarrel(BernardMalamud)……………………………17.TheSwimmer(JohnCheever)…………………

4、…………………18.WhoAmIThisTime?(Vonnegelt)……………………………1661.WashingtonIrving(1783---1859)WashingtonirvingwasregardedbymostcriticsasthefirstAmericanwriterofimaginativeliteraturetogaininternationalfame.IrvingwasborninNewYorkmrchantfamily.Attheageofweventeen,hebegant

5、hestudyofthelaw.Hestartedhisliterarycareerwhenhewasnineteen.Whenhewastwenty-one,IrvingwentonatourofEurope.HereturnedtonewYorktwoyearslatertoenterthebarandlivedagentlemanlifeasalawyer.AttheendoftheWarof1812,IrvingwassenttoEnglandtosupervisehisfamilybusiness

6、inLiverpool,butthefirmwentbankruptin1818partlybecauseofthebadmanagement.Irving’sexperiencesinEuropehepedhimwithmaterialsforhislaterwriting.HewroteHistoryofNewYork(1809),andmanybiographiesonchristoperCulumbus,PresidentWasgington,andothers.Buttodayweremember

7、himforhisTheSketchBookofGeoffreyCrayon.Gent.(1820),becauseinitwerethetwotalesthatboughthimhismosteduringfame,“RipVanWinkle”and“ThelegentofSleepyHollow”.Ripwasanoldfarmer,buthedidnotlikefarmwork.Heoftenstayedinvillagetaverntotalkwithothers.Hewasafraidofhist

8、alktivewife.Onedayhetookhisguntogotothemountainfollowedbyhisdog.Onthewayhemetamanwithakeg.HeinvitedRiptogowithhim.Inthedepmountaintheyarrivedataplacewheretwooldmenwereplayingchess.Ripwatchedthemanddrankthewin