The Oxford Book of Short Stories - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0199583137 ISBN 13: 9780199583133

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2010

Riassunto

V. S. Pritchett, one our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years.

Great Britain, America, and especially Eire have fine traditions of short-story writing that have developed from the time of Sir Walter Scott and Nathaniel Hawthorne, while in the last century the art was perfected by Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, John Updike, and V. S. Pritchett himself. The Irish contribution includes such masters as James Joyce, Frank O'Connor, and Liam O'Flaherty, and stories by Canadian, Indian, New Zealand, and Australian writers show the full range of invention and ability in a genre that continues to flourish.

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Recensione:

Review from previous edition Look for this book at airport departure lounge bookshops and guarantee youself a good flight. (Evening Echo)

L'autore:

V. S. Pritchett is a novelist, short-story writer, critic, biographer, and traveller.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0199583137
• ISBN 13: 9780199583133
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576
• Redattore: Pritchett The Late V. S.