陆道夫，安徽六安人，英语语言文学教授，比较文学与世界文学教授，博士，曾在加拿大多伦多大学英语系留学，研修比较文学理论、美国当代文艺思潮。代表成果有《文本、受众、体验约翰·菲斯克媒介文化理论研究》、《英语国家文化常识》、《英语名篇诵读菁华》、《亚文化：风格的意义》（译著）、《西方民俗传说词典》（译著）等。
肖向阳，湖南娄底人。英语语言文学副教授，文学硕士，曾在美国俄亥俄州立大学英语系访学，师从Vanerie Lee教授研修美国小说与女性文学。

本书精选了英美文学史上经典短篇小说20篇，短篇小说的作者均为有影响力的文学名家。全书分为“英国篇”、“美国篇”和“评论篇”三大部分。

Foreword(总序)Preface(前言)Introduction(导言)British Writers(英国篇)Unit 1 Robert Louis Stevenson(1850-1894)MarkheimUnit Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936)The Finest Story In the WoddUnit 3 W．Somerset Maugham(1874-1965)The LuncheonUnit 4 Katherine Mansfield(1888-1923)The Doll’s HouseUnit 5 Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)Kew GardensUnit 6 Doris Lessing(1919-)To Room 19American Writers(美国篇)Unit 7 Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)Young Goodman BrownUnit 8 Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)The Cask of AmontilladoUnit 9 Charlotte Perkins Gilman(1860-1935)Unit 10 O.Henry(1862-1910)A Service of LoveUnit 11 Sherwood Anderson(1876-1941)The EggUnit 12 Stephen Crane(1871-1900)The Bride Comes to Yellow SkyUnit 13 William Faulkner(1897-1962)Dry SeptemberUnit 14 Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)The Snows of KilimanjaroUnit 15 John Steinbeck(1902-1968)The ChrysanthemumsUnit 16 Eudora Welty(1909-2001)Death of a Travelling SalesmanUnit 17 FIannery O’connor(1925-1964)Unit 18 John Hoyer Updike(1932-2009)A&PUnit 19 Raymond Carver(1938-1988)CathedraUnit 20 Alice Walker(1944-)Everyday UseCommentaries(评论篇)1．Lessing’S Acceptance Speech for Nobel Prize2．The Origin of Cathedral3．The Element of Suspense in A Good Man Is to Find4．Southern Sources of A Good Man Is Hard to Find5．Flannery O’Connor and Her Readers6．On The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of A．montillado7．Poe’s Art of Transformation in The Cask ofAmontillado&The Meaning of A Rose for Emily9．Hemingway’S Heroes and Style10．Dramatic ToRe and Symblism of Hemingway’s Stories11．A Feminist ReadingofGilman’S The Yellow Wallpaper12．Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration13．Blackness in Hawthorne’S Young Goodman Brown14．The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale15．John Updike’S Canny Tale in A&P16．Everyday Use~My Sojourn at Parchman Farm17．Zora Neale Hurston．A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View 18．Is Phoenix Jackson’S Grandson Really Dead?References(参考文献)