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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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- 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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- EditoreOxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Data di pubblicazione2009
- ISBN 10 0199561605
- ISBN 13 9780199561605
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine480
- RedattoreByatt A. S.
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Oxford Book of English Short Stories , edited by A. S. Byatt, herself the author of several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to specifically take the English short story as its theme. The 37 stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan, though many draw ingeniously from the richness of earlier English literarywriting.There are all sorts of threads of connection and contrast running through these stories. Their subjects vary from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the momentous to the trivial,from the grim to the farcical. There is English empiricism, English pragmatism, English starkness, English humour, English satire, English dandyism, English horror, and English whimsy. There are examples of social realism, from rural poverty to blitzed London; ghost stories and tales of the supernatural; surreal fantasy and science fiction. There are stories of sensibility, precisely delineated, from Hardy's reluctant bride to the shocked heroine of Elizabeth Taylor's The Blush, from H. E.Bates's brilliant fusion of class, sex, death, and landscape, to D. H. Lawrence's exploration of a consciousness slowly detaching itself from its world. There are exuberant stories by Saki and Waugh,Wodehouse and Firbank, with a particularly English range from high irony to pure orchestrated farce.The very range and scope of the collection celebrates the eccentric differences and excellences of English short stories. Some of A. S. Byatt's choices clearly take their place in the grand tradition of story-telling, while others are more unusual. Many break all the rules of unity of tone and narrative, appearing to be one kind of story before unexpectedly turning intoanother. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject matter. As A. S. Byatt explains: 'My only criterion was that thosestories I selected should be startling and satisfying, and if possible make the hairs on the neck prickle with excitement, aesthetic or narrative'. A fresh contemporary design for A. S. Byatt's celebrated anthology of English short stories The Oxford Book of English Short Stories.The 37 stories featured here are selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, by authors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780199561605
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