The Oxford Book of Short Stories Paperback / softback
Edited by the late V. S. (Novelist, short-story writer, critic, biographer, and traveller) Pritchett
Part of the Oxford Books of Prose & Verse series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:576 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:18/03/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199583133
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:576 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:18/03/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199583133
