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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.TheCelebratingJumpingFrogofCalavenasCounty(Mark

2、Twain)………………6.TheCopandtheAnthem(O.Henry)……………….7.TheHouseofMapichi(JackLondon)………………….8.TheOpenBoat(StephenCrane)………………….9.NiggerJeff(ThoeredoreDreiser)………………..10.DeathintheWoods(SherwoodAnderson)……….11.TheJiltingofGrannyWeatheral(AnnePorter)………………12.TheSnowofKilimanjaro(Ernest

3、Hemingway)……………………13.BabylonRevisited(F.ScottFitzgerald)………………14.ARoseforAmily(WilliamFaulkner)………………15.Flights(JohnSteinbeck)……………..16.TheMagicBarrel(BernardMalamud)……………………………17.TheSwimmer(JohnCheever)……………………………………18.WhoAmIThisTime?(Vonnegelt)……………………………1661.WashingtonIrving(

4、1783---1859)WashingtonirvingwasregardedbymostcriticsasthefirstAmericanwriterofimaginativeliteraturetogaininternationalfame.IrvingwasborninNewYorkmrchantfamily.Attheageofweventeen,hebeganthestudyofthelaw.Hestartedhisliterarycareerwhenhewasnineteen.Whenhewastwenty-one,Irvingwenton

5、atourofEurope.HereturnedtonewYorktwoyearslatertoenterthebarandlivedagentlemanlifeasalawyer.AttheendoftheWarof1812,IrvingwassenttoEnglandtosupervisehisfamilybusinessinLiverpool,butthefirmwentbankruptin1818partlybecauseofthebadmanagement.Irving’sexperiencesinEuropehepedhimwithmate

6、rialsforhislaterwriting.HewroteHistoryofNewYork(1809),andmanybiographiesonchristoperCulumbus,PresidentWasgington,andothers.ButtodaywerememberhimforhisTheSketchBookofGeoffreyCrayon.Gent.(1820),becauseinitwerethetwotalesthatboughthimhismosteduringfame,“RipVanWinkle”and“Thelegentof

7、SleepyHollow”.Ripwasanoldfarmer,buthedidnotlikefarmwork.Heoftenstayedinvillagetaverntotalkwithothers.Hewasafraidofhistalktivewife.Onedayhetookhisguntogotothemountainfollowedbyhisdog.Onthewayhemetamanwithakeg.HeinvitedRiptogowithhim.Inthedepmountaintheyarrivedataplacewheretwooldm

8、enwereplayingchess.Ripwatchedthemanddrankthewin