英美短篇小说选读

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　　So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily slawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the baseof the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them per-formed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung fromhis shoulder. They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled limethere, and in all the outbuildings. As they re-crossed the lawn, awindow that had been dark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, thelight behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol.They crept quietly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locuststhat lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away.　　That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her. Peo-ple in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt,had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons heldthemselves a little too high for what they really were. None of theyoung men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We hadlong thought of them as a tableau,　Miss Emily a slender figure inwhite in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in theforeground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two ofthem framed by the back-flung front door. So when she got to bethirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindica-ted ;even with insanity in the family she wouldnt have turned downall of her chances if they had really materialized.

书籍目录

Preface

An Introduction to Reading Short Stories

I. Plot

William March

Aesop’s Last Fable

Irwin Shaw

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses

Willia

作者简介

《英美短篇小说选读》为英美名著学习丛书之一。

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