作品目录

1. The Bear.............................................................................William Faulkner
2. The Whistle...............................................................................Eudora Welty
3. The Life and Work of Professor Roy Millen...........Robert Penn Warren
4. The Ballet Dancer......................................................................Jay Mayhall
5. Herb Gathering....................................................................Truman Capote
6. Two Mutes........................................................................Carson McCullers
7. The Great Fire of 1945......................................................Margaret Shedd
8. The Jersey Heifer.......................................................Peggy Harding Love
9. A Visit to the Grandfather's Grave........................James Turner Jackson
10. Natives Don't Cry.........................................................................Kay Boyle
11. Rosie............................................................................William Van Buskirk
12. The Treasure Game...................................................................H. E. Bates
13. The Duck...................................................................................J. B. Prestley
14. A Special Occasion.....................................................................Joyce Cary
15. Bookshops in Paris...............................................................Aldous Huxley
16. A World of Glass.................................................................William Sansom
17. A Hemingway Sample......................................................Caroline Gordon
18. Kant the Man..........................................................W. Somerset Maugham
19. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities...............................Delmore Schwartz
20. A Mountain Adventure..............................................Gerald Warner Brace
21. Father and Daughter.................................................................James Yaffe
22. Merry Christmas..................................................................William Saroyan
23. D-Day............................................................................Winston S. Churchill
24. A Student in Economics......................................................George Milburn
25. Prescott...............................................................................Van Wyck Brooks
26. Man and Woman................................................................Erskine Caldwell
27. A Pretty Girl.............................................................................Max Beerbohm
28. Her Graduation Day..........................................................Nancy G. Chaikin
29. Emergency Landing...............................................................John Cheever
30. Romeo..................................................................................Charles Jackson
31. Dialogues of A. N. Whitehead..................................................Lucien Price
32. Michael and Mary.................................................................Seumas O'Kelly
33. University Days.................................................................James G. Thurber
34. British Bicycles in Spain........................................................Robert Graves
35. The Reigning Royalty of Europe...............................................David Cecil
36. A Professor in Retirement........................................................Jean Stafford
37. A Writer's Life........................................................Catherine Drinker Bowen
38. Skeffington's Decision to Run for Re-election................Edwin O'Connor
39. Moon Shell.............................................................Anne Morrow Lindbergh
40. Invite..............................................................................................John O'Hara
41. Captain Carlsen...............................................................Thomas Whiteside
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作者简介

夏济安（1916—1965），著名翻译家、文学评论家。曾任教于台湾大学，1955年春赴美，半年后返台，翌年主编《文学杂志》，提倡现实主义文学，介绍西方文学和文艺理论。1959年再度赴美，于西雅图华盛顿大学及加州大学伯克利分校任教。夏济安的中英文著作皆被公认为杰作，译文神似原文。著有《夏济安选集》、《夏济安日记》等，译有《美国名家散文选读》等。夏济安亦是国际公认的研究中国新文学的专家，在台湾文坛影响深远，是著名作家白先勇、欧阳子、王文兴、陈若曦、叶维廉等人的启蒙老师。

夏志清（1921— ），著名文学史家、评论家。美国耶鲁大学英文系博士。先后任教于北京大学、纽约州立大学、匹兹堡大学、哥伦比亚大学等。夏志清学贯中西，涉猎广泛，主张现实主义文学。其散文也非常出色，独具风格。主要著作有《中国现代小说史》、《中国古典小说》、《新文学的传统》、《鸡窗集》等。

精彩摘录

deepeningnight：夜色渐深。用一现在分词deepening，表示时间进行，便觉长夜漫漫，缠绵无穷。第二段已说：Thenthroughlongnighthourswewatcheditsembersblacken,die,andfalltoashes。看烟消火灭，相对无语，竟夕相共，黯然神伤，尽在不言中矣。

——引自章节：露西姑娘