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The Oxford Book of Short Stories (Oxford Books of Prose Verse)

By V. S. Pritchett

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2010
ISBN
0199583137, 9780199583133
LCC
PR1309.S5 O9 2010
Open Library ID
OL24424769M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4769781 bytes)
Pages
576\559
Topic
Literature Prose
Time added
2012-02-22 21:04:21
Библиотека;Зарубежная литература;На английском язы

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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