The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories - from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis

Informationen zum Autor Kasia Boddy teaches in the English Department at University College London. She has published widely on American topics and her books include Boxing: A Cultural History (2008) and The American Short Story Since 1950 (2010). She has also co-edited several other anthologies, most recently, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off: Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov to ZZ Packer (2009) from Penguin Classics. Klappentext Kasia Boddy teaches in the English Department at University College London. She has published widely on American topics and her books include Boxing: A Cultural History (2008) and The American Short Story Since 1950 (2010). She has also co-edited several other anthologies, most recently, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off: Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov to ZZ Packer (2009) from Penguin Classics. Zusammenfassung The short story is one of the most varied genres in American literature. This title brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm labourers, slaves, soldiers and salesmen, witches and ghosts, families and lovers.

Product details

• Authors: Kasia Boddy, Boddy Kasia, Hawthorne et al, Irvin, Irving, Po, Poe
• Assisted by: Kasi Boddy (Editor), Kasia Boddy (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2011
• EAN: 9780141194424
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119442-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Anthologies: general, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary