50 Greatest Short Stories

Publication, Rupa

ISBN 10: 8129137259 / ISBN 13: 9788129137258

Editore: Rupa Publications Private Limited, 2015

Codice articolo 8129137259-3-36320235

Riassunto:

50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world's short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Lady with the Dog', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Rain' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', to name but a few. This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories is a collector's item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world's finest writing and for newer readers to be introduced to it. Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. Rider Haggard, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, W.W. Jacobs, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Jerome K. Jerome, H.G. Wells, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Frank Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Leacock, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, M. R. James, W. Somerset Maugham, R. L. Stevenson

Informazioni sull?autore: Terry O'Brien is an academic, a quiz enthusiast and the bestselling author of several series of reference books on the English language.

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Titolo: 50 Greatest Short Stories
Casa editrice: Rupa Publications Private Limited
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Good