短篇英文小說書推薦書
⑴ 有什麼英語短篇小說推薦
1. 「A Good Man is Hard to Find,」 Flannery O』Connor
Few short stories have stuck with us as much as this one, which is probably O'Connor's most famous work — and with good reason. The Misfit is one of the most alarming serial killers we've ever met, all the more so for his politeness, and the story』s moral is so striking and terrifying that — whether you subscribe to the religious undertones or not — a reader is likely to finish and begin to reexamine their entire existence. Or at least we did, the first time we read it.
《好人難尋》這篇小說是奧康納最為著名的作品,很少有其他短篇小說能像這篇一樣給我們帶來震撼。無論你是否能明了宗教般的潛在含義,看完這篇小說讀者都會開始或是結束對存在的檢視。
2. 「The School,」 Donald Barthelme
This story is very short, but pretty much perfect in every way. Though Barthelme is known for his playful, post modern style, we admire him for his ability to shape a world so clearly from so few words, chosen expertly. Barthelme never over explains, never uses one syllable too many, but effortlessly leads the reader right where he wants her to be. It's funny, it's absurdist, it's sad, it's enormous even in its smallness. It may be this writer』s favorite story of all time. You should read it.
這篇小說很短,但是堪稱完美。巴塞爾姆的優秀就在於他能用精選的極少幾個文字就為我們敘述了一個世界。他很少過多地解釋,就把讀者帶到了他想要你去地方。
3. 「In The Penal Colony,」 Franz Kafka
Kafka called this one his「dirty story,」and thought it imperfect, but it's one of our favorites of his (though we also recommend 「The Hunger Artist」and「A Country Doctor」). It's so obviously a story about writing, in some ultimate way — a machine punishes its victims by writing on them over and over until their bodies give out — but its as if, while the body is the source of every problem in the tale, every weakness, it is also the only place where true knowledge can be translated.
卡夫卡稱自己的這篇小說是一個「很臟的故事」,認為並不完美,但是這個短篇確實我們的最愛之一。在小說中,我們可以體會到,身體是一切問題和弱點的根源,但身體也是唯一能轉化真知的地方。
4. 「Signs and Symbols,」Vladimir Nabokov
Another short one, we revere this story for its ability to turn every tiny detail into a portentous disaster, not to mention the fact that it's penned in Nabokov's effortlessly gorgeous, silvery prose. An old Jewish couple goes to visit their son in the mental hospital, only to be turned away because he has attempted to kill himself. And that's it, really. They go home and look though a photo album, eat some jam. The phonerings. But the whole thing is, perhaps, both a comment on the nature of insanity and the nature of the short story itself, with all its rules and strangeness and banality. And all its symbols, of course.
我們喜歡這篇小說的原因就在於,這個故事有能力把每個細微的細節瞬間變為一場災難,而Nabokov在寫這篇小說用的是輕松華麗水銀瀉地般的散文風格。
5. 「Gooseberries,」 Anton Chekhov
Chekhov's stories are indisputably among the greats, and this one, written rather late, is one of our favorites. Chekhov probes at both the frailty and the worth of humanity, not to mention the natureof life, both for the fortunate and the unfortunate. But like most of Chekhov's stories, there's no clear moral, there's no obvious takeaway. Some men sit around and discuss their thoughts, and we listen, mulling over the subtleties for ourselves.
契科夫的小說無疑是最偉大的作品之一,而這篇是我們的最愛。這篇小說像他的其他小說一樣,沒有清晰的道德標准,我們只是靜靜地看著幾個人圍坐著,討論他們的思想。
6. 「Sea Oak,」 George Saunders
「Sea Oak」 is Saunders's favorite of his own stories, we've heard, so because we find it so hard to choose among them, we've included it here on his own recommendation. Absurdist and satirical, and including at least one zombie shouting at her housemates to get laid, it's a weird one. But it's also concerned with placelessness, with family, with poverty, and like all of Saunders's stories, has a good, thumping heart under all that darkness and fun-poking.
這部小說是桑德斯最為喜愛的一步短篇,這也是我們聽說的。因為我們很難做出選擇,因此就把他自己的推介放在了這里。這部小說充滿了荒誕和諷刺,但是也關心家庭和貧窮等問題。像他的其他小說一樣,在黑暗和取笑中,也暗含著美好和快樂。
7. 「The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,」 Ursula K. LeGuin
LeGuin's parabolic tale, which won the Hugo Award for best short story in 1974, is a weird, spacious story about a city that seems to be a utopia — except for its one flaw, the single child that must always be kept in darkness and wretched misery so that the others may all live happily. Most of the citizens eventually accept this, but some do not, and silently leave the city, vanishing into the world around. Strange but pointed, Le Guin is a master of her genre.
勒古這部寓言般的短篇小說獲得過1974年的「雨果獎」,是關於一個類似烏托邦的城市的荒誕又宏大的故事。
8. 「The Veldt,」 Ray Bradbury
This tale, from one of the greatest science fiction writers in history, is deliciously wicked. Though it was written in 1950, this kind of story — of children driven mad by want, of technology turning on its masters — will never get old. Until technology actually turns on us, that is. Then we probably won't want to hear about it.
布萊伯利作為歷史上最富盛名的科幻小說家,這篇小說也是通過精心編寫的。
9. 「The Bear Came Over the Mountain,」 Alice Munro
The undisputed queen of the short story, Alice Munro』s work is stark and often heartbreakingly raw, and this story of memory loss and the aching tenderness of human interaction is no different. Fun fact: this story was adapted into the film 「Away from Her」, starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent.
門羅是毫無爭議的短篇小說女王,她的作品有一種朴實風格,常常帶著心跳般的粗獷,這篇關於喪失記憶以及人類互動中的痛苦和柔弱的小說也不例外。
10. 「The Nose,」 Nikolai Gogol
Gogol might be the oldest writer on this list, but he』s also one of the weirdest — in a good way. Nabokov once wrote, 「In Gogol…the absurd central character belongs to the absurd world around him but, pathetically and tragically, attempts to struggle out of it into the world of humans — and dies in despair.」 What else can an absurd noseless man do, after all?
果戈里應該是這個書單上最久遠的作家了,但是他也是最荒誕的小說家之一。納博科夫曾近這樣寫道:「在果戈里的作品中,荒誕的人物屬於他周圍荒誕的世界,但是卻可憐兮兮且悲慘地要逃離他的世界,最終死於絕望」。
⑵ 有哪些英國短篇小說適合英語專業的學生閱讀
(《木馬贏家》)講述了一個家庭被金錢蒙蔽了雙眼,親情不再,人與人之間的關系被物質異化的故事。一向都是勞倫斯最擅長描繪的物質主義下人的異變的故事。勞倫斯的詞句不難,但是每個詞底下暗流涌動,生機勃勃,文風自成一派。作為初入門的勞倫斯研究者,我覺得開口評價這位英國文學大師,已經誠惶誠恐。勞倫斯的長篇小說如《查泰萊夫人的情人》,《兒子與情人》都膾炙人口,但是短篇小說也許在國內受眾不多。這篇"TheRocking-HorseWinner"是不可多得的佳作,值得一讀。
⑶ 介紹幾部經典英文短篇小說
(少年維特的煩惱),我正在看,可能不算短篇吧。但是它的英文我覺得還比較容易好理解。
⑷ 有哪些好看的短篇英文小說
世界三大短篇小說之王
莫泊桑、契訶夫和歐~亨利
莫泊桑(Maupassant1850~1893)19世紀後半期法國優秀的批判現實主義作家。年僅43年生命歷程竟創作了6部長篇小說和356多篇中短篇小說,莫泊桑短篇小說布局結構精巧合理。典型細節選用真實可信、敘事抒情的手法如行雲流水,充分體現了這種的文學傳統。莫泊桑的最出色的短篇代表作是《羊脂球》。《項鏈》、《我的叔叔於勒》;其作品在我國影響很大,近幾年來,一直被作為中學生必課的文學作品.
歐~亨利(1862~1910)善於描寫美國社會尤其是紐約百姓的生活。他的作品構思新穎,語言詼諧,結局常常出人意外;歐~亨利一生創作了270多個短篇小說和一部長篇小說,還有數量很少的詩歌他頗善情節設計,處處留下玄機,結局常常以出人意料出外而收場。讀後使人不禁使人豁然開朗,拍案叫絕,被稱為"歐~亨利式結尾".又因描寫了眾多的人物,富於生活情趣,被譽為「美國生活的幽默網路全書」.黑色幽默,「含淚水的微笑」。代表作有《愛的犧牲》、《警察與贊美詩》、《帶傢具出租的房間》、《麥琪的禮物》、《最後一片葉子》等.
契訶夫(1860-1904)他常以十九世界俄國社會中所常見的凡人小事為素材,用語言簡練、諷刺尖刻筆觸描寫小人物和知識分子兩類人的命運。代表作有《小職員之死》《變色龍》。《套中人》等。契河夫是19世紀末俄國偉大的劇作家和短篇小說家,俄國現實主義文學流派的傑出代表
其他的有:
茨威格短篇小說集
馬克.吐溫短篇小說集
竊賊(阿·康帕尼爾)
情書(岩井俊二)
永遠佔有(格雷厄姆·格林)
化石街(島田莊司)
棋逢對手(西瑞爾·哈爾)
首領(卡拉維洛夫)
熱愛生命(傑克·倫敦)
螞蟻 (博里斯·維昂)
蠢豬 (馬萊巴)
品酒 (羅·達爾)
打不碎的雞蛋 (馬萊巴)
勞駕,快點!(圖戈依)
品酒 (羅·達爾)
⑸ 有哪些好看的英文短篇小說
羊脂球,湯姆索亞歷險記,包法利夫人。
⑹ 推薦幾部經典的英文短篇小說名字及其網址 可免費在線看的
英語小說在線閱讀:Peter
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Wendy[雲南外語網]
http://www.ynenglish.com/Article/EnglishCourse/ReadingCourse/245_625620070208230800.shtml
英國作家羅爾德達爾的小說,《羊腿》。
⑺ 英國的短篇小說,有哪些值得推薦
D.H. Lawrence的"The Rocking-Horse Winner".(《木馬贏家》)
講述了一個家庭被金錢蒙蔽了雙眼,親情不再,人與人之間的關系被物質異化的故事。
一向都是勞倫斯最擅長描繪的物質主義下人的異變的故事。
勞倫斯的詞句不難,但是每個詞底下暗流涌動,生機勃勃,文風自成一派。
作為初入門的勞倫斯研究者,我覺得開口評價這位英國文學大師,已經誠惶誠恐。勞倫斯的長篇小說如《查泰萊夫人的情人》,《兒子與情人》都膾炙人口,但是短篇小說也許在國內受眾不多。這篇"The Rocking-Horse Winner"是不可多得的佳作,值得一讀。
⑻ 適合初學者看的英文小說
一、Charlie and the Chocolate Factory《查理和他的克工廠》
一本有趣好看而充滿想像力的童話小說,講述了窮孩子查理幸運拿到可以進入巧克力工廠參觀的金券後,一系列的奇遇。 在書中可以看到,小查理和他的家裡人過的生活雖然貧窮,可他們深深地懂得愛,這維持了他們除生活外的一切滿足感,看完如果意猶未盡,還可以看看同名電影。
二、The wonderful wizard of Oz《綠野仙蹤》
故事講述了小蘿莉多蘿西被大風吹到一個奇異國度(奧茲國)的奇遇記。這個可愛的小故事裡有一個善良的小蘿莉,一個稻草人,一個鐵皮機器人與一個獅子。短小精悍,沒什麼難度,易讀易懂,卻又引人入勝。
三、Flipped《怦然心動》
這本便是同名電影的原著小說,它講述了一個單純美好的故事,裡面有美好的田園風光和校園生活,還有屬於布萊斯和朱莉的故事。小說要比電影有意思很多,相信你看的時候一定會笑出聲來。敘述以男孩和女孩視角的章節交錯進行,畫面感很強。
四、Hyperbole and a Half- Allie Brosh我幼稚的時候好有范
比爾蓋茨2015年的推薦書單里就有這本奇特的小書,他說道:你會希望小說更長,因為這些故事很有趣,很睿智。它故事短小,畫風奇特,非常適合於碎片時間閱讀。
五、The little word of Liz Climo你今天真好看
這本畫風萌系、溫暖的治癒系,收錄了莉茲克里莫150多張逗趣漫畫和小說情節。畫中的故事簡單卻動人,圍繞著各種萌萌的小動物展開,有兔子,蜥蜴,棕熊,企鵝等。簡短有趣的句子配上可愛清新的漫畫,很快就可以看完。
⑼ 有哪些好看的短篇英文小說
《了不起的蓋茨比》
作者簡介:弗·司各特·菲茨傑拉德,美國小說家,年輕時試寫過劇本。1920年出版了長篇小說《人間天堂》,從此出了名,小說出版後他與澤爾達結婚。1925年《了不起的蓋茨比》問世,奠定了他在現代美國文學史上的地位,成了20年代「爵士時代」的發言人和「迷惘的一代」的代表作家之一。
內容簡介:20世紀20年代的美國,空氣里彌漫著歡歌與縱飲的氣息。一個偶然的機會,窮職員尼克闖人了揮金如土的大富翁蓋茨比隱秘的世界,驚訝地發現,他內心惟一的牽絆竟是河對岸那盞小小的綠燈——-燈影婆娑中,住著他心愛的黛西。然而,冰冷的現實容不下飄渺的夢,到頭來,蓋茨比心中的女神只不過是凡塵俗世的物質女郎。當一切真相大白,蓋茨比的悲劇人生亦如煙花般,璀璨只是一瞬,幻滅才是永恆。
推薦理由:一闋華麗的「爵士時代」的輓歌,在菲茨傑拉德筆下,如詩如夢,在美國當代文學史上留下了墨色濃重的印痕。20世紀末,美國學術界權威在百年英語文學長河中選出一百部最優秀的小說,《了不起的蓋茨比》高居第二位,傲然躋身當代經典行列。