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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 Contents 1.Rip Van Winckle (Washington Irving) 2.The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allen Poe). 3.The Ministers Black Veil (Nathanel Hawthorne) 4.The Story of an Hour (Kate Chopin) 5.The Celebrating Jumping Frog of Calavenas County (Mark Twain) 6.The Cop
2、and the Anthem (O. Henry). 7.The House of Mapichi (Jack London). 8.The Open Boat (Stephen Crane). 9. Nigger Jeff (Thoeredore Dreiser) 10. Death in the Woods(Sherwood Anderson). 11.The Jilting of Granny Weatheral (Anne Porter) 12.The Snow of Kilimanjaro(Ernest Hemingway) 13.Babylon Revisited (F.Scott
3、 Fitzgerald) 14.A Rose for Amily(William Faulkner) 15. Flights(John Steinbeck) 16.The Magic Barrel(Bernard Malamud) 17.The Swimmer(John Cheever) 18.Who Am I This Time?(Vonnegelt) 1.Washington Irving(1783-1859) Washington irving was regarded by most critics as the first American writer of imaginative
4、 literature to gain international fame. Irving was born in New York mrchant family. At the age of weventeen, he began the study of the law. He started his literary career when he was nineteen. When he was twenty-one, Irving went on a tour of Europe. He returned to new York two years later to enter t
5、he bar and lived a gentleman life as a lawyer. At the end of the War of 1812, Irving was sent to England to supervise his family business in Liverpool, but the firm went bankrupt in 1818 partly because of the bad management. Irvings experiences in Europe heped him with materials for his later writin
6、g. He wrote History of New York(1809), and many biographies on christoper Culumbus, President Wasgington, and others. But today we remember him for his The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Gent.(1820), because in it were the two tales that bought him his most eduring fame, “Rip Van Winkle” and “The l
7、egent of Sleepy Hollow”. Rip was an old farmer, but he did not like farm work. He often stayed in village tavern to talk with others. He was afraid of his talktive wife. One day he took his gun to go to the mountain followed by his dog. On the way he met a man with akeg. He invited Rip to go with hi
8、m. In the dep mountain they arrived at a place where two old men were playing chess. Rip watched them and drank the wine. Soon he fell asleep. When he woke up there was no his dog and his gun was rusted. He found his way home. But to his surprise none of the people he recognized. It was nearly twent
9、y years that he slept.During these time great change took place. The British flag changed into American star-ribbon flag. His wife had died long ago and his daughter had married. She took Rip home and Rip still stayed at the village tavern and taked his tales to the other people. Rip Van Winckle Who
10、ever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season ,every change of w
11、eather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on
12、 clear evening sky; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyage may have descried the
13、 light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape. It is a little village, of great antiquity, having been founded by some of the Dutch colonists, in the early times of the
14、 province, just about the beginning of the government of the good Peter Stuyvesant(may he rest in peace!) and there were some of the houses of the original settler standing within a few years built of small yellow bricks brought from Holland, having latticed windows and gable fronts, surmounted with
15、 weathercocks. In that same village and in one of these very houses(which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten), there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple good natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winckle. He was a d
16、escendant of the Van Winckles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina. He inherited, however, but little of the martial character of his ancestors. I have observed that he was a simple good natured man; he was, moreover, a kind neighbor, and an obedient hen-pecked husband. Indee
