Top 30
Essential Short Stories in English: 1843 to 2000
| Author | Jim Knudsen 著 |
|---|---|
| Category |
Reading |
| Level |
Intermediate |
| TOEIC Level |
500~600 600~700  |
| Release Date | 2019/04/01 |
| ISBN | 9784523178750 |
| Book Size・Number of Pages | B5・72 pages |
| Price | 1,980 yen (incl. tax) |
| Number of Units | 30 |
| Teacher’s Materials | ●Teacher's Manual（including Japanese translation) ●Teacher's Audio CD 〈Others〉 Teacher's Manual Data（PDF/Word),Text Data (Word) |
| Stocks | 〇 |
In his “To the Students” preface to this collection of mini-essays introducing 30 great short stories in English, the author wrote: “My goal is to try to pique your interest in each story by telling you a bit about its setting, plot, and characters, pointing out significant themes, citing a memorable passage, and presenting a comment from writers who admire the story as much as I do.” And that’s precisely what this unique text does. From Poe, Dickens, and Joyce to Greene, Malamud, and Munro: all the “essential” authors are included, providing an at-a-glance overview of the English short-fiction “canon”—with the hope, the author tells students, “that sometime, somewhere you will seek out and read some of these wonderful stories on your own.”
Key Features and Functions
* Accessible, “chatty,” 330-word essays introducing 30 short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling “The Tell-Tale Heart,” through D.H. Lawrence’s moving “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” and on to Ha Jin’s shocking “Saboteur”
* Authors represent England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, India, China, the U.S.; stories of adventure, mystery, “bildungsroman,” tragedy, fantasy, humor, revenge, politics and society
* Hybrid comprehension/composition exercises encourage close, careful, critical reading and develop all the essential language skills
* TM includes supplemental vocabulary and listening activities; detailed author profiles in English for extra reading/listening practice; full expert translations
Edgar Allan Poe (American)
Lesson 2 A Christmas Carol (1843)
Charles Dickens (British)
Lesson 3 The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (American)
Lesson 4 Heart of Darkness (1899)
Joseph Conrad (Polish-British)
Lesson 5 Paul’s Case (1902)
Willa Cather (American)
Lesson 6 The Dead (1914)
James Joyce (Irish)
Lesson 7 The Garden Party (1922)
Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand)
Lesson 8 The Rocking-Horse Winner (1926)
D.H. Lawrence (British)
Lesson 9 Hills Like White Elephants (1927)
Ernest Hemingway (American)
Lesson 10 Guests of the Nation (1931)
Frank O’Connor (Irish)
Lesson 11 Roman Fever (1934)
Edith Wharton (American)
Lesson 12 The Use of Force (1938)
William Carlos Williams (American)
Lesson 13 The Girls in Their Summer Dresses (1939)
Irwin Shaw (American)
Lesson 14 The Demon Lover (1941)
Elizabeth Bowen (Irish)
Lesson 15 Goodbye, My Brother (1951)
John Cheever (American)
Lesson 16 The Magic Barrel (1958)
Bernard Malamud (American)
Lesson 17 The Ledge (1959)
Lawrence Sargent Hall (American)
Lesson 18 Everything That Rises Must Converge (1961)
Flannery O’Connor (American)
Lesson 19 A & P (1961)
John Updike (American)
Lesson 20 The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen (1965)
Graham Greene (British)
Lesson 21 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (1966)
Joyce Carol Oates (American)
Lesson 22 The Man to Send Rain Clouds (1967)
Leslie Marmon Silko (Native American)
Lesson 23 Are These Actual Miles? (1972)
Raymond Carver (American)
Lesson 24 A Loaf of Bread (1972)
James Alan McPherson (American)
Lesson 25 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1975)
Ursula K. Le Guin (American)
Lesson 26 Bobby’s Room (1984)
Douglas Dunn (Scottish)
Lesson 27 The Things They Carried (1986)
Tim O’Brien (American)
Lesson 28 The Management of Grief (1988)
Bharati Mukherjee (Indian-American)
Lesson 29 The Bear Came Over the Mountain (1999)
Alice Munro (Canadian)
Lesson 30 Saboteur (2000)
Ha Jin (Chinese-American)
