先读为快
本书选收的早期和现代的作家作品都是英国文学史上早有定论的优秀作家作品。对于当代作家尚难有定论，选择的依据主要是文坛上声誉较高的。书中还简要介绍短篇小说的要素和阅读方法，课后问题引导学生从多种角度解读小说文本，而且每个单元依次包括作家介绍，正文和注释，思考问题共三个部分。本书可供高校英语专业学生的阅读学习。
目录
Introduction
Section One Early
Charles Dickens The Signal-Man
George Eliot The Lifted Veil
Rudyard Kipling The Man who would be King
Thomas Hardy The Son's Veto
The Three Strangers
Joseph Conrad The Secret Sharer
Section Two Modern
James Joyce Araby
The Dead
D. H. Lawrence Rocking-Horse Winner
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Katherine Mansfield The Garden-Party
Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens
The Mark on the Wall
Robert Louis Stevenson Markheim
W. Somerset Maugham The Outstation
H. G. Wells The Door in the Wall
Section Three Contemporary
Saki The Open Window
The Interlopers
Doris Lessing To Room Nineteen
Elizabeth Bowen The Demon Lover
Graham Greene The Destructors
Bibliography
