英语短篇小说

There once lived in a town of Persia two brothers, one named Cassim and the other Ali Baba. Their father divided a small inheritance equally between them. Cassim married a very rich wife, and became a wealthy merchant.

The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead: he had always been a hard man to convince.

马克·吐温（Mark Twain），美国幽默大师、作家、演说家，真实姓名是萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门（Samuel Langhorne Clemens）。“马克·吐温”是其笔名，原是密西西比河水手使用的表示在航道上所测水的深度的术语。代表作品有小说《百万英镑》、《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》、《汤姆·索亚历险记》等。

A Boy was given permission to put his hand into a pitcher to get some filberts. But he took such a great fistful that he could not draw his hand out again. There he stood, unwilling to give up a single filbert and yet unable to get them all out at once. Vexed and disappointed he began to cry.

欧·亨利（英语：O. Henry，1862年9月11日－1910年6月5日），原名威廉·西德尼·波特（William Sydney Porter），美国小说家。他少年时曾一心想当画家，婚后在妻子的鼓励下开始写作。

I WAS sick, sick unto death, with that long agony, and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sentence, the dread sentence of death, was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears.

This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.

At five o'clock Ed Loyce washed up, tossed on his hat and coat, got his car out and headed across town toward his TV sales store. He was tired.

It was late in the afternoon, and the light was waning. There was a difference in the look of the tree shadows out in the yard.

As she lay in her berth, staring at the shadows overhead, the rush of the wheels was in her brain, driving her deeper and deeper into circles of wakeful lucidity. The sleeping-car had sunk into its night-silence.

It was, as far as I can ascertain, in September of the year 1811 that a post-chaise drew up before the door of Aswarby Hall, in the heart of Lincolnshire.

《关于爱情》，契科夫的一部小说，这部小说是描述了关于阿列兴和安娜·阿历克塞耶芙娜的爱情。在《关于爱情》里，有一个名叫阿列兴的人向中学教师布尔金讲述了他自己经历的一个尴尬的爱情故事，之所以尴尬，是因为男女双方总不把他们的感情揭穿，反而胆怯地、周密地把这种感情掩盖起来。