This book has grown out of the former anthology Short Stories
of the English Language: A Course Book published by Chongqing
University Press in 2009. In that book we have laid heavy emphasis
on language, theme, characters,plot, and stylistic matters. Here
this Great Stories anthology aims to read those same stories as in
the Course Book more profoundly and more academically. For this
purpose, we have deleted the after-text exercises, added short
summaries and commentary entailed by a further reading list, and
most importantly, supplied each story with more detailed linguistic
and cultural notes in order that our readers--students and
teachers--can understand more tangibly.
the united kingdom
thomas hardy 1840—1928
the withered arm
william somerset maugham 1874—-1965
the book-bag
virginia woolf 1882—1941
kew gardens
d. h. lawrence 1885—1930
the horse dealer''s daughter
doris lessing 1919—
to room nineteen
the united states of america
nathaniel hawthorne 1804—1864
young goodman brown
edgar allan poe 1809—1849
the fall of the house of usher
mark twain 1835—1910
the notorious jumping frog of calaveras county
sherwood anderson 1876—1941
death in the woods
jack london 1876—1916
to build a fire
william faulkner 1897—1962
a rose for emily
ernest hemingway 1899—1961
the snows of kilimanjaro
john steinbeek 1902—1968
the chrysanthemums
john updike 1932—2009
separating
the republic of ireland
frank o''connor 1903—1966
guests of the nation
canada
morley callaghan 1903—1990
now that april''s here
australia
henry lawson 1867—1922
the drover''s wife
new zealand
katherine mansfield 1888—1923
the garden party
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