英文中篇小说简单

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不知道你有没有学过The Chaser.我们专业学的一片英语小说。。是John Collier 写的。很有名，因为蛮深刻的。Alan Austen, as nervous as a kitten, went up certain dark and creaky stairs in the neighborhood of Pell Street, and peered about for a long time on the dim landing before he found the name he wanted written obscurely on one of the doors. He pushed open this door, as he had been told to do, and found himself in a tiny room, which contained no furniture but a plain kitchen table, a rocking chair, and an ordinary chair. On one of the dirty, buff-coloured walls were a couple of shelves, containing in all perhaps a dozen bottles and jars. An old man sat in the rocking chair, reading a newspaper. Alan, without a word, handed him the card he had been given. "Sit down, Mr. Austen," said the old man very politely. "I am glad to make your acquaintance." "Is it true," asked Alan, "that you have a certain mixture that has... er... quite extraordinary effects?" "My dear sir," replied the old man, "my stock in trade is not very large — I don't deal in laxatives and teething mixtures — but such as it is, it is varied. I think nothing I sell has effects which could be precisely described as ordinary." "Well, the fact is..." began Alan. "Here, for example," interrupted the old man, reaching for a bottle from the shelf. "Here is a liquid as colourless as water, almost tasteless, quite imperceptible in coffee, wine, or any other beverage. It is also quite imperceptible to any known method of autopsy." "Do you mean it is a poison?" cried Alan, very much horrified. "Call it a glove-cleaner if you like," said the old man indifferently. "Maybe it will clean gloves. I have never tried. One might call it a life-cleaner. Lives need cleaning sometimes." "I want nothing of that sort," said Alan. "Probably it is just as well," said the old man. "Do you know the price of this? For one teaspoonful, which is sufficient, I ask five thousand dollars. Never less. Not a penny less." "I hope all your mixtures are not as expensive," said Alan apprehensively. "Oh dear, no," said the old man. "It would be no good charging that sort of price for a love potion, for example. Young people who need a love potion very seldom have five thousand dollars. Otherwise they would not need a love potion." "I am glad to hear that," said Alan. "I look at it like this," said the old man. "Please a customer with one article, and he will come back when he needs another. Even if it is more costly. He will save up for it, if necessary." "So," said Alan, "you really do sell love potions? "If I did not sell love potions," said the old man, reaching for another bottle, "I should not have mentioned the other matter to you. It is only when one is in a position to oblige that one can afford to be so confidential." "And these potions," said Alan. "They are not just... just... er... "Oh, no," said the old man. "Their effects are permanent, and extend far beyond the mere casual impulse. But they include it. Oh, yes they include it. Bountifully, insistently. Everlastingly." "Dear me!" said Alan, attempting a look of scientific detachment. "How very interesting!" "But consider the spiritual side," said the old man. "I do, indeed," said Alan. "For indifference," said the old man, "they substitute devotion. For scorn, adoration. Give one tiny measure of this to the young lady — its flavour is imperceptible in orange juice, soup, or cocktails — and however gay and giddy she is, she will change altogether. She will want nothing but solitude and you." "I can hardly believe it," said Alan. "She is so fond of parties." "She will not like them any more," said the old man. "She will be afraid of the pretty girls you may meet." "She will actually be jealous?" cried Alan in a rapture "Of me?" "Yes, she will want to be everything to you." "She is, already. Only she doesn't care about it." "She will, when she has taken this. She will care intensely. You will be her sole interest in life." "Wonderful!" cried Alan. "She will want to know all you do," said the old man. "All that has happened to you during the day. Every word of it. She will want to know what you are thinking about, why you smile suddenly, why you are looking sad." "That is love!" cried Alan. "Yes," said the old man. "How carefully she will look after you! She will never allow you to be tired, to sit in a draught, to neglect your food. If you are an hour late, she will be terrified. She will think you are killed, or that some siren has caught you." "I can hardly imagine Diana like that!" cried Alan, overwhelmed with joy. "You will not have to use your imagination," said the old man. "And, by the way, since there are always sirens, if by any chance you should, later on, slip a little, you need not worry. She will forgive you, in the end. She will be terribly hurt, of course, but she will forgive you — in the end." "That will not happen," said Alan fervently "Of course not," said the old man. "But, if it did, you need not worry. She would never divorce you. Oh, no! And, of course, she will never give you the least, the very least, grounds for — uneasiness." "And how much," said Alan, "is this wonderful mixture?" "It is not as dear," said the old man, "as the glove-cleaner, or life-cleaner, as I sometimes call it. No. That is five thousand dollars, never a penny less. One has to be older than you are, to indulge in that sort of thing. One has to save up for it." "But the love potion?" said Alan. "Oh, that," said the old man, opening the drawer in the kitchen table, and taking out a tiny, rather dirty-looking phial. "That is just a dollar." "I can't tell you how grateful I am," said Alan, watching him fill it. "I like to oblige," said the old man. "Then customers come back, later in life, when they are better off, and want more expensive things. Here you are. You will find it very effective." "Thank you again," said Alan. "Good-bye." "Au revoir," said the man.

其实我想说 你要是这样 不如买本 英语四级阅读题 专门都是小文章 不是很难 还进行了练习 你说的那些小说类的 基本都是很专业的 英语专业的 或者图书馆应该有那种小册子 英汉对译的 我还是觉得 一边做题 一边看小文章 挺好 至于小说 不是我打击你 你要是英语专业的话 可能学个两三年 掌握更多的词汇量 会好一点如果不是英语专业 还是别浪费时间了 大学生活很丰富多彩 过不了多久你就会深有体会了

1. 英国Charles Dickens的A Tale of Two Cities《双城记》很不错！讲有关于革命的东西。适合男孩看。2. 美国Bill Bryson的A Short History of Nearly Everything《万物简史》。3. 美国Emest Hemingway的The Old Man and the Sea《老人与海》。很经典。4.英国的《简爱》(Jane Eyre)5.《爱丽丝梦游仙境》（又名爱丽丝漫游奇境；英语：Alice's Adventures in Wonderland）是英国作家查尔斯·路德维希·道奇森以笔名路易斯·卡罗尔于1865年出版的儿童文学作品6.。《绿野仙踪全集》又名《OZ国经典童话》The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ，是美国作家弗兰克·鲍姆创作的奇幻冒险童话故事集，共十四本，有“美国的《西游记》”之称。

可以读伊索寓言,都是短篇!在百度文库中就可以搜到英文版!

《简爱》蛮好的 《彼得潘》的英文版不是很难的 《秘密花园》等 外国的名著都不是很无趣 难度的话还是从一些你没看过的童话故事开始看一步一步的到一些比较难的书上 对英语的提高很大的

《羊脂球》是有“短篇小说大师”之称的法国作家莫泊桑先生创作的小说。《羊脂球》是他的成名作，也是他的代表作之一。故事以羊脂球的悲惨遭遇反衬了资本主义下的丑恶肮脏的灵魂。他们虚伪的面具下藏的都是腐朽的内脏和污秽的思想。