英美文学名作赏析
2012-4
北京理工大学出版社
黄吟
171
《外语教学指导与学术研究系列丛书：英美文学名作赏析》全书共涵盖了英美文学近现代10位作家的10篇著名作品，其中包括每位作家的生平简介，所选作品的内容梗概及每篇作品的英文赏析与导读。该书选篇绝大多数为英美文学中的近现代作品，它们贴近生活、情节生动、内涵丰富、富有哲理，语言生动、时代感强。相信阅读此书可以在某种程度上帮助读者把握近现代英美文学发展的动态，进而了解英美现代文化及社会状况。 《外语教学指导与学术研究系列丛书：英美文学名作赏析》作品题材丰富、体裁多样，包括长篇小说选段、短篇小说、散文及诗歌。选文及赏析部分通俗易懂并有编者自己的一定见解，力求与读者共勉。
1．Walt Whitman作者简介作品介绍——0ut of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking作品欣赏——Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking2．Emily Dickinson作者简介作品介绍——A Narrow Fellow in the Grass作品欣赏——A Narrow Fellow in the Grass3．Mark Twain作者简介作品介绍——Tlle Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County作品欣赏——The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County4．Thomas Hardy作者简介作品介绍——The Three Strangers作品欣赏——The Three Strangers5．Oscar Wilde作者简介作品介绍——The Devoted Friend作品欣赏——The Devoted Friend6．O．Henry作者简介作品介绍——The Last Leaf作品欣赏——The Last Leaf7．Stephen Crane作者简介作品介绍——The Blue Hotel作品欣赏——The Blue Hotel8．Jack London作者简介作品介绍——T0 Build a Fire作品欣赏——T0 Build a Fire9．Edgar Allan Poe作者简介作品介绍The Black Cat作品欣赏——The Black Cat10．James Thurber作者简介作品介绍——The Secret Life of Walter Mitty作品欣赏——The Secret Life of Walter MittyReference
what you would call a chivalric old gentleman. A mite of a little woman with blood thinned by California zephyrs was hardly fair game for the red-fisted， short-breathed old duffer. But Johnsy he smote， and she lay， scarcely moving， on her painted iron bedstead， looking through the small Dutch window-panes at the blank side of the next brick house. One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a shaggy， gray eyebrow. "She has one chance in-let us say， ten，" he said， as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer. " And that chance is for her to want to live. This way people have of lining-u on the side of the undertaker makes the entire pharmacopoeia look silly. "Your little lady has made up her mind that she's not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind?" "She-she wanted to paint the Bay ofNaples some day." said Sue. "Paint?-bosh! Has she anything on her mind worth thinking twice-a man for instance?" "A man?" said Sue， with a jew's-harp twang in her voice. "Is a man worth-but， no， doctor; there is nothing of the kind." "Well， it is the weakness， then，" said the doctor. "I will do all that science， so far as it may filter through my efforts， can accomplish. But whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines. If you will get her to ask one question about the new winter styles in cloak sleeves I will promise you a one-in-five chance for her， instead of one in ten." After the doctor had gone Sue went into the workroom and cried a Japanese napkin to a pulp. Then she swaggered into Johnsy's room with her drawing board， whistling ragtime. ……
