The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse) - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0199561605 ISBN 13: 9780199561605

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2009

Riassunto

From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy, through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and many others, The Oxford Book of English Short Stories encompasses comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque. Edited by noted novelist A. S. Byatt, the thirty-seven stories gathered here range from social realism to surreal fantasy, from rural poverty to war-blitzed London, from tales of the supernatural to precise delineations of the mundane, all unified by Byatts demanding criteria that the works be both startling and satisfying, and if possible make the hairs on the neck prickle with excitement, aesthetic or narrative. For short story lovers and anyone unable to resist the enchantments of the English imagination, The Oxford Book of English Short Stories offers a wide array of unforgettable pleasures, now reissued with a fresh, contemporary feel.

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Contenuti

• A. S. Byatt: Introduction
• William Gilbert: The Sacristan of St Botolph
• Charles Dickens: The Haunted House
• Anthony Trollope: Relics of General Chassé, A Tale of Antwerp
• Thomas Hardy: A Mere Interlude
• Mary Mann: Little Brother
• M. R. James: Two Doctors
• Arthur Morrison: Behind the Shade
• Rudyard Kipling: Wireless
• H. G. Wells: Under the Knife
• Charlotte Mew: A White Night
• Saki: The Toys of Peace
• G. K. Chesterton: The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown
• A. E. Coppard: Some Talk of Alexander
• P. G. Wodehouse: The Reverent Wooing of Archibald
• Virginia Woolf: Solid Objects
• D. H. Lawrence: The Man who Loved Islands
• Ronald Firbank: A Tragedy in Green
• Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Widow's Quilt
• Aldous Huxley: Nuns at Luncheon
• Malachi Whitaker: Landlord of the Crystal Fountain
• V. S. Pritchett: On the Edge of the Cliff
• Rosamund Lehmann: A Dream of Winter
• Evelyn Waugh: An Englishman's Home
• Graham Greene: The Destructors
• H. E. Bates: The Waterfall
• T. H. White: The Troll
• Elizabeth Taylor: The Blush
• Penelope Fitzgerald: At Hiruharama
• Leonora Carrington: My Flannel Knickers
• Alan Sillitoe: Enoch's Two Letters
• J. G. Ballard: Dream Cargoes
• John Fuller: Telephone
• John Fuller: My Story
• Angela Carter: The Kiss
• Rose Tremain: The Beauty of the Dawn Shift
• Ian McEwan: Solid Geometry
• Philip Hensher: Dead Languages

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Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199561605
• ISBN 13: 9780199561605
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 480
• Redattore: Byatt A. S.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile