现代英文短篇小说
① 急求一篇短篇英语小说
Appointment With Love －－By Sulamith Ish-Kishor
Six minutes to six, said the great round clock over the information booth in Grand Central Station. The tall young Army lieutenant who had just come from the direction of the tracks lifted his sunburned face, and his eyes narrowed to note the exact time. His heart was pounding with a beat that shocked him because he could not control it. In six minutes, he would see the woman who had filled such a special place in his life for the past 13 months, the woman he had never seen, yet whose written words had been with him and sustained him unfailingly.
He placed himself as close as he could to the information booth, just beyond the ring of people besieging the clerks...
Lieutenant Blandford remembered one night in particular, the worst of the fighting, when his plane had been caught in the midst of a pack of Zeros. He had seen the grinning face of one of the enemy pilots.
In one of his letters, he had confessed to her that he often felt fear, and only a few days before this battle, he had received her answer: "Of course you fear...all brave men do. Didn't King David know fear? That's why he wrote the 23rd Psalm. Next time you doubt yourself, I want you to hear my voice reciting to you: 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for Thou art with me.'" And he had remembered; he had heard her imagined voice, and it had renewed his strength and skill.
Now he was going to hear her real voice. Four minutes to six. His face grew sharp.
Under the immense, starred roof, people were walking fast, like threads of color being woven into a gray web. A girl passed close to him, and Lieutenant Blandford started. She was wearing a red flower in her suit lapel, but it was a crimson sweet pea, not the little red rose they had agreed upon. Besides, this girl was too young, about 18, whereas Hollis Meynell had frankly told him she was 30. "Well, what of it?" he had answered. "I'm 32." He was 29.
His mind went back to that book - the book the Lord Himself must have put into his hands out of the hundreds of Army library books sent to the Florida training camp. Of Human Bondage, it was; and throughout the book were notes in a woman's writing. He had always hated that writing-in habit, but these remarks were different. He had never believed that a woman could see into a man's heart so tenderly, so understandingly. Her name was on the bookplate: Hollis Meynell. He had got hold of a New York City telephone book and found her address. He had written, she had answered. Next day he had been shipped out, but they had gone on writing.
For 13 months, she had faithfully replied, and more than replied. When his letters did not arrive she wrote anyway, and now he believed he loved her, and she loved him.
But she had refused all his pleas to send him her photograph. That seemed rather bad, of course. But she had explained: "If your feeling for me has any reality, any honest basis, what I look like won't matter. Suppose I'm beautiful. I'd always be haunted by the feeling that you had been taking a chance on just that, and that kind of love would disgust me. Suppose I'm plain (and you must admit that this is more likely). Then I'd always fear that you were going on writing to me only because you were lonely and had no one else. No, don't ask for my picture. When you come to New York, you shall see me and then you shall make your decision. Remember, both of us are free to stop or to go on after that - whichever we choose..."
One minute to six - Lieutenant Blandford's heart leaped higher than his plane had ever done.
A young woman was coming toward him. Her figure was long and slim; her blond hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears. Her eyes were blue as flowers, her lips and chin had a gentle firmness. In her pale green suit, she was like springtime come alive.
He started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was wearing no rose, and as he moved, a small, provocative smile curved her lips.
"Going my way, soldier?" she murmured.
Uncontrollably, he made one step closer to her. Then he saw Hollis Meynell.
She was standing almost directly behind the girl, a woman well past 40, her graying hair tucked under a worn hat. She was more than plump; her thick-ankled feet were thrust into low-heeled shoes. But she wore a red rose in the rumpled lapel of her brown coat.
The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away.
Blandford felt as though he were being split in two, so keen was his desire to follow the girl, yet so deep was his longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned and upheld his own; and there she stood. Her pale, plump face was gentle and sensible; he could see that now. Her gray eyes had a warm, kindly twinkle.
Lieutenant Blandford did not hesitate. His fingers gripped the small worn, blue leather of Of Human Bondage, which was to identify him to her. This would not be love, but it would be something precious, something perhaps even rarer than love - a friendship for which he had been and must ever be grateful.
He squared his broad shoulders, saluted and held the book out toward the woman, although even while he spoke he felt shocked by the bitterness of his disappointment.
"I'm Lieutenant John Blandford, and you - you are Miss Meynell. I'm so glad you could meet me. May...may I take you to dinner?"
The woman's face broadened in a tolerant smile. "I don't know what this is all about, son," she answered. "That young lady in the green suit - the one who just went by - begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said that if you asked me to go out with you, I should tell you that she's waiting for you in that big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of a test. I've got two boys with Uncle Sam myself, so I didn't mind to oblige you."
② 介绍几部经典英文短篇小说
（少年维特的烦恼)，我正在看，可能不算短篇吧。但是它的英文我觉得还比较容易好理解。
③ 5000词左右的英文短篇小说
What presents should I buy to bring back to my friends?
the catcher in the rye, the great gatsby, on the road, charlotte's web
这几本都很经典的，也不是很难，on the road可能稍有些深奥。
⑤ 现代英语短篇小说或散文
The Bear——William Faulkner
The Whistle——Eudora Welty
The Ballet Dancer——Jane Mayhall
Herb Gathering——Truman Capote
Two Mutes——Carson McCullers
Rosie——William Van Buskirk
The Treasure Game——H.E.Bates
The Duck——J.B.Priestley
⑥ 求英语短篇小说
经典短篇小说好多呢！用词比较简单，但意义深刻！更重要的是每一篇都短小精悍！（符合你的要求哦）
1.《生火》杰克.伦敦
To
Build
a
Fire
(Jack
LondonP
2.《厄谢尔府的倒塌》
爱伦.坡
The
Fall
of
the
House
of
Usher
(Edgar
Allan
Poe)
3.《项链》莫泊桑
The
Necklace
(Guy
de
Maupassant)
4.《警察与赞美诗》欧.亨利
The
Cop
and
the
Anthem
(O
Henry)
5.《麦琪的礼物》欧.亨利
Magi's
gift
(O
Henry)
6.《最后一片藤叶》欧.亨利
The
Last
Leaf
(O
Henry)
7.《加利维拉县有名的跳蛙》马克.吐温
The
Notorious
Jumping
Frog
of
Calaveras
County
（Mark
Twain)
8.《人生的五种恩赐》马克.吐温
The
Five
Boons
of
Life
（Mark
Twain)
9.《三生客》
托马斯.哈代
The
Three
Strangers
(Thomas
Hardy)
10.《敞开的落地窗》萨基
The
Open
Window
(Saki)
11.《末代佳人》菲茨杰拉德
The
Last
of
the
Belles
(F.S.Fitzgerald)
12.《手》舍伍德.安德森
Hands
13.《伊芙琳》詹姆斯.乔伊斯
Eveline
14.《教长的黑色面纱》纳撒尼尔.霍桑
The
Minister's
Black
Veil
⑦ 学英语，高分求推荐一本英文小说（最好双语），内容是现代的，贴近生活的，要求有大量对话和生活情境。。
别看剧本，剧本太崩溃了，现在上课天天学drama的剧本，演起来好看但是读的话。。。蜡烛
我现在加拿大高三，所以大概和你的水平差不多，你是想要娱乐性质比较强的还是比较专业的？
推荐：
哈利波特。简单易懂，逐步渐进。前面几本很轻松，后面的越来越难。有中文有英文，而且看完书之后再去看电影就能听懂啦，英式发音必选……而且好买，大书店里应该都有……
指环王。经典之作，理由同上。
暮光之城。这个书和电影我都没有觉得好看。hp我中英文加起来看过不下二十遍，指环王英文不下五遍，但是暮光一遍就够了……好处是，美式英语，语言比较贴近生活。
美剧绝望的主妇，速度很慢，读音标准，而且很规范。在国内新东方的老师经常用这个做教材……大概是跟我的生活离得太远了觉得没意思，不过建议可以试试。
这些都是娱乐性比较强的……别觉得哈利波特幼稚什么的，一提到最喜欢的书学校里有一半人都是它……而且我当时来这里之前啃了好几遍，然后专业性不强的阅读都没有问题啦……
如果想要专业一点的，比如名著什么的，再追问哦……
⑧ 请给我推荐一些好看的英文短篇小说
Dr.Jekyll.and.Mr.Hyde
http://www.learnlibrary.com/jekyll-hyde/
⑨ 经典短篇英文小说
经典短篇小说好多呢！用词比较简单，但意义深刻！更重要的是每一篇都短小精悍！（符合你的要求哦）
1.《生火》杰克.伦敦 To Build a Fire (Jack LondonP
2.《厄谢尔府的倒塌》 爱伦.坡
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
3.《项链》莫泊桑 The Necklace (Guy de Maupassant)
4.《警察与赞美诗》欧.亨利 The Cop and the Anthem
(O Henry)
5.《麦琪的礼物》欧.亨利 Magi's gift (O Henry)
6.《最后一片藤叶》欧.亨利 The Last Leaf (O Henry)
7.《加利维拉县有名的跳蛙》马克.吐温 The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
（Mark Twain)
8.《人生的五种恩赐》马克.吐温
The Five Boons of Life （Mark Twain)
9.《三生客》 托马斯.哈代 The Three Strangers
(Thomas Hardy)
10.《敞开的落地窗》萨基 The Open Window (Saki)
11.《末代佳人》菲茨杰拉德 The Last of the Belles
(F.S.Fitzgerald)
12.《手》舍伍德.安德森 Hands
13.《伊芙琳》詹姆斯.乔伊斯 Eveline
14.《教长的黑色面纱》纳撒尼尔.霍桑