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內容簡介
《中譯經典文庫·世界文學名著·歐亨利短篇小說集(英文原版)》由中國對外翻譯出版公司出版。
作者簡介
歐·亨利，生於1862年，美國著名批判現實主義作家，世界三大短篇小說大師之一。曾被評論界譽為曼哈頓桂冠散文作家和美國現代短篇小說之父。1910年死於肝硬化，他的葬禮在紐約舉行，他被葬於北卡羅來納州阿什維爾。1927年，他的女兒瑪格麗特·沃斯·波特（Margaret Worth Poter）去世，與他合葬在一起。
圖書目錄
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 Dollar's Worth
Seats Of The Haughty
To Him Who Waits
文摘
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 office in the court-house. The deputyand a reputable druggist were prepared to swear that Ortiz paid fora bottle of medicine with it. The coin was a poor counterfeit, soft,dull-looking, and made principally of lead. It was the day before themoming on which the docket would reach the case of Ortiz, and thedistrict attorney was preparing himself for trial.
"Not much need of having in high-priced experts to prove thecoin's queer, is there, Kil？" smiled Littlefield, as he thumped the dollardown upon the table, where it fell with no more ring than would havecome from a lump of putty.
序言
一部文學史是人類從童真走向成熟的發展史，是一個個文學大師用如椽巨筆記載的人類的心靈史，也是承載人類良知與情感反思的思想史。閱讀這些傳世的文學名著就是在閱讀最鮮活生動的歷史，就是在與大師們做跨越時空的思想交流與情感交流，它會使一代代的讀者獲得心靈的滋養與巨大的審美滿足。
中國對外翻譯出版公司以中外語言學習和中外文化交流為自己的出版方向，向廣大讀者提供既能提升語言能力，又能滋養心靈的精神大餐是我們的一貫宗旨。儘管隨著網路技術和數字出版的發展，讀者獲得這些作品的途徑更加便捷，但是，一本本裝幀精美、墨香四溢的圖書仍是讀書人的最愛。
“熟讀唐詩三百首，不會做詩也會吟”，漢語學習如此，外語學習尤其如此。要想徹底學好一種語言，必須有大量的閱讀。這不僅可以熟能生巧地掌握其語言技能，也可了解一種語言所承載的獨特文化。“中譯經典文庫?世界文學名著（英語原著版）”便是這樣一套必將使讀者受益終生的讀物。
