歐‧亨利短篇小說選：純愛英文館（簡體書）

作者：（美國）歐·亨利（O.Henry）

《歐?亨利短篇小說選》的作者是美國最著，名的短篇小說家之一，曾被評論界譽為曼哈頓桂冠散文作家和美國現代短篇小說之父。其中包括：愛的奉獻、沒有完的故事、供應家具的房間、精確的婚姻學、藝術良心等作品。

The Gift of the Magi
A Cosmopolite in a Café
Between Rounds
The Skylight Room
A Service of Love
The Cop and the Anthem
Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
Mammon and the Archer
An Unfinished Story
Sisters of the Golden Circle
The Romance of a Busy Broker
The Furnished Room
Hearts and Crosses
Telemachus, Friend
The Handbook of Hymen
The Buyer from Cactus City
The Lost Blend
A Harlem Tragedy
The Last Leaf
The Count and the Wedding Guesl
The Tale of a Tainted Tenner
Conscience in Art
The Man Higher Up
The Fifth Wheel
The Poet and the Peasant
A Municipal Report
The Third Ingredient
Buried Treasure
The Moment of Victory
The Head-Hunter
The Last of the Troubadours
Witches' Loaves
Roads of Destiny
'Next to Reading Matter'
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
A Retrieved Reformation
Two Renegades
While the Auto Waits
A Comedy in Rubber
One Thousand Dollars
'Girl'
The Marionettes

On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of nogreat pretensions.It catered to large appetites and modestpurses.lts crockery and atmosphere were thick; its soupand napery thin.lnto this place Soapy took his accusiveshoes and tell-tale trousers without challenge. At a table hesat and consumed beefsteak, flapjacks, doughnuts andpie. And then to the waiter he betrayed the fact that theminutest coin and himself were strangers.
'Now, get busy and call a cop,' said Soapy.'Anddon't keep a gentleman waiting. ''No cop for youse,' said the waiter, with a voice likebutter cakes and an eye like the cherry in a Manhattancocktail.'Hey, Con! '
Neatly upon his left ear on the callous pavement twowaiters pitched Soapy.He arose, joint by joint, as acarpenter's rule opens, and beat the dust from hisclothes.Arrest seemed but a rosy dream.The Islandseemed very far away. A policeman who stood before adrug store two doors away laughed and walked down thestreet.
Five blocks Soapy travelled before his courage permittedhim to woo capture again. This time the opportunity presented what he fatuously termed to himself a'cinch.' Ayoung woman of a modest and pleasing guise was standingbefore a show window gazing with sprightly interest at itsdisplay of shaving mugs and inkstands, and two yardsfrom the window a large policeman of severe demeanourleaned against a water-plug.
It was Soapy's design to assume the role of the despicable and execrated 'masher.' The refined and elegant appearance of his victim and the contiguity of the conscientious cop encouraged him to believe that he would soonfeel the pleasant offiaal clutch upon his arm that wouldensure his winter quarters on the right little, tight littleisle.