《超越概念•高等院校英语专业系列教材:英语小说选读》收编主要英语**的名家作品，体裁风格皆具代表性，可以帮助学生了解作品风格特点。作品内容配有翔实的注释，包括生词难词解释和文化难点知识补充，有助于学生解读文本。编者为每个作品设置了丰富的练习，进一步辅助学生从深层次理解作品特色。

目录
Unit 1.Character
James Joyce: Araby
Katherine Masfield: Miss Brill
Unit 2.Plot
William Carlos Williams: The Use of Force
Shirley Jackson: The Lottery
Unit 3.Language and Style
John Updike: A & P
Ernest Hemingway: The Killes
Unit 4.Setting
William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily
Kate Chopin: The Storm
Unit 5.Point of view
Doris Lessing: The Black Madonna
Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher
Unit 6.Symbol
Nathanial Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown
Sherwood Andeson: The Egg
Unit 7.Irony
Flannery O'Connor: Good Country People
O'Henry: The Cop and the Anthem
Unit 8.Theme
D.H.Lawrence: The Hose-Dealer's Daughter
Alice Walker: Everyday Use
Unit 9.Experimental Technique
William Boyd: Beulah Berlin, An A-Z
Joyce Carol Oates: Unmailed, Unwritten Lettes