50 Great Short Stories 美国短篇小说精粹50篇

美国文学批评家Milton Crane在“50 Great Short Story”这本书的前面有一段话，对什么才是好的短篇（What makes a great short story ?）作了简洁、精彩的阐述：
The sudden unforgettable revelation of charater; the vision of a world through another’s eyes; the glimpse of truth; the capture of a moment in time.
All this the short story, at its best, is uniquely capable of conveying, for in its very shortness lies its greatest strength.
It can discover depths of meaning in the casual word or action; it can suggest in a page what could not be started in a volume.

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common–the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction. 
作者简介：
Milton Crane is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at George Washington University and the University of Chicago. His is the author several books and articles on English literature, as well as the editor of the Bantam anthology, 50 Great American Short Stories.

The GardenPany-KatherineMansfield
TheThree-Day Blow—ErnestHemingway
The StandardofLiving—Dorothy Parker
The Saint—V.S Pritchett
The Other Side ofthe Hedge_EMForster
Brooksmith—HenryJames
The Joekey—Carson McCullers
TheCourting ofDinah Shadd—RudyardKipling
The Shot—AlexanderPoushkin(translatedby Keane)
GravenImage—John O'Hara
Putois—-AnatoleFrance(translatedbyFredericChapman)
OnlytheDead Know B-Thomas Wolye
AV Laider—Max Beerbohm
The Lottery—hirleyJackson
TheMasque ofthe Red Death—Edgar Allan Poe
LookingBack—GuydeMaupassant(translatedby HNP Sloman)
The Man Higher Up—O.Henry
The Summer ofthe Beautiful White Horse—William Saroyan
The Other Two-Edim Wharton
Theft—KatherineAnnePorter
AGoodManIsHardtoFind—FlanneryO’Connor
The Man ofthe House—Frank0’Connor
The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles—Edmund Wilson
The Gioconda Smile—Aldoustluxtey
TheCurfewToll—Stenhen Vincent Benbt
FatherWakes Up the Village—ClarenceDay
IvyDayintheCommitteeRoom—James Joyce
The Chrysanthemums—John Steinbeck
The Door—E.B.White
AnUpheaval—Anton Chekhov
HowBeautifulwith Shoes—WilburDanielSteele
AHaunted House—Virginia Woolf
The Catbird Seat—dames Thurber
The Schartz—Metterklume MethOd一“aki”
(H.H Munro)