Oxford Book of Short Stories

Zusatztext Review from previous edition Look for this book at airport departure lounge bookshops and guarantee youself a good flight. Klappentext V. S. Pritchett, one of 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. Zusammenfassung V. S. Pritchett, one of 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Two Drovers The Birthmark The Fall of the House of Usher The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Iliad of Sandy Bar The Coupe de Grâce Paste Thrawn Janet The Secret Sharer The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot Telemachus, Friend Sredni Vashtar The Open Boat An Ideal Craftsman An Official Position I Want to Know Why The Field of Mustard Grace The Rocking-Horse Winner Who Dealt? The Woman at the Store Flowering Judas The Tent Dry September Hills Like White Elephants The Demon Lover Many Are Disappointed Sinners Guests of the Nation The Runaway Never A Horse and Two Goats A Visit of Charity Various Temptations My Vocation Five-Twenty Goodbye, My Brother Mrs Fortescue Parker's Back Going Home Lifeguard References and Acknowledgements Index of Authors

Produktdetails

• Autoren: V. S. Pritchett
• Mitarbeit: the late V. S. (Novelist Pritchett (Herausgeber), V. S. Pritchett (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Trade
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 18.03.2010
• EAN: 9780199583133
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958313-3
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Serie: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
• Themen: Schule und Lernen; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary