内容简介
欧·亨利，是美国著名的短篇小说家之一，曾被评论界誉为曼哈顿桂冠散文作家和美国现代短篇小说之父。他善于描写美国社会尤其是纽约百姓的生活。他的作品构思新颖，语言诙谐，结局常常出人意外；又因描写了众多的人物，富于生活情趣，被誉为“美国生活的幽默百科全书”。代表作有小说集《白菜与国王》、《四百万》、《命运之路》等。其中一些名篇如《爱的牺牲》、《警察与赞美诗》、《带家具出租的房间》、《麦琪的礼物》、《最后一片藤叶》等使他获得了世界声誉。《欧亨利短篇小说集(世界文学名著英语原著版)》从他的短篇小说作品中精选了22篇，为英语原著版。
目录
A Newspaper Story
After Twenty Years
Buried Treasure
Confessions of a Humorist
"Girl"
Hearts and Hands
The Cactus
The Cop and the Anthem
The Detective Detector
The Furnished Room
The Gift of the Magi
The Green Door
The Last Leaf
The Marry Month of May
The Pimienta Pancakes
The Princess and the Puma
The Romance of a Busy Broker
The Skylight Room
A Blackjack Bargainer
A Technical Error
He Also Serves
One Dollars Worth
Seats Of The Haughty
To Him Who Waits
试读
Littlefield went to the clerk of the court and looked over therecords with him. They decided that the letter might have been sent byMexico Sam, a half-breed border desperado who had been imprisonedfor manslaughter four years before. Then official duties crowded thematter from his mind, and the rattle of the revengeful serpent wasforgotten.
Court was in session at Brownsville. Most of the cases to be triedwere charges of smuggling, counterfeiting, post-office robberies, andviolations of Federal laws along the border. One case was that of ayoung Mexican, Rafael Ortiz, who had been rounded up by a cleverdeputy marshal in the act of passing a counterfeit silver dollar. He hadbeen suspected of many such deviations from rectitude, but this wasthe first time that anything provable had been fixed upon him. Ortizlanguished cozily in jail, smoking brown cigarettes and waiting fortrial. Kilpatrick, the deputy, brought the counterfeit dollar and handedit to the district attorney in his of
前言/序言
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