Contents 3
Part One 3
1．The Devil and Tom Walker，Washington Irving 3
2．Rappaccini’s Daughter，Nathaniel Hawthorne 13
3．The Cask of Amontillado，Edgar Allan he 27
4．A Horseman in the Sky，Angus Spills 37
5．Bartleby，Herman Melville 46
6．Keesh，Jack London 55
7．The White Heron，Sarah Orne Jewett 63
8．How John Bascole Outsang the Devil？Arthur P.Davies 72
9．Judge，Walter D.Edmonds 82
10．A Girl for Walter，Theodore Jacophs 90
11．The Complaint Manager，Francis B.Majoy 98
12．The Gatewood caper，Dashiell Hammett 107
13．Girls in Their Summer Dresses，Irwin Shaw 116
14．The Stradivarius，Richard Thorman 126
15．Man with the Secret，Edward Holmes 139
Part Two 149
16．The Empty House，Scott B.Smith 149
17．The Great Gatsby，F.Scott Fitzgerald 157
18．A Rose for Emily，William Faulkner 169
19．First Love，Bill Cosby 184
Part Three 197
20．Cecil Rhodes and the Shark，Mark Twain 197
21．In Another Country，Ernest Hemingway 212
22．In the Red Room，Paul Bowles 224
23．Things to Be Thrown Away，Jonathan Penner 245
参考译文 256
练习题答案 376
跋 377