The Oxford book of short stories
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The Oxford book of short stories
Oxford University Press, [2010?], c1981
- : [pbk.]
Available at 2 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- REFERENCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX OF AUTHORS
by "Nielsen BookData"