Oxford Book of Adventure Stories

Zusatztext entertaining and challenging selection. Informationen zum Autor Lecturer in English at York University, Joseph Bristow is the editor of the World's Classics edition of Olive Shreiner's The Story of an African Farm. Klappentext `The love of adventure, and of mystery, and of a good fight lingers in the minds of men and women.' Thus wrote Andrew Lang in 1887, and the enduring popularity of a genre that was in its heyday at the turn of the century shows no sign of waning. This anthology brings together 23 of the best adventure stories from the zenith of Empire to our present, fragmented, post-colonial world. Pitched against the unknown, against the forces of nature and against man's own treachery, the protagonists' courage and heroism are put to the test. In settings that range from desert islands to the Java Sea, from war-torn Europe to deepest Africa, heroes battle not only for self-preservation but in defence of country and culture. As the old certainties faded with the loss of empire, so moral complexity and literary sophistication grew, and the very notion of `adventure' is challenged in fine stories by Paul Bowles, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood. Zusammenfassung A collection of 23 of the best adventure stories from their Victorian heyday to the present, and featuring authors as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson, Rider Haggard, P.C. Wren, Jack London, Daphne du Maurier and Margaret Atwood, not to mention heroes as resourceful as Biggles.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Bristow, Joseph (Senior Lecturer in English Bristow
• Assisted by: Joseph Bristow (Editor), Bristow Joseph (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.1995
• EAN: 9780192142146
• ISBN: 978-0-19-214214-6
• No. of pages: 436
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Adventure, FICTION / Thrillers / General, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Action & Adventure, Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Adventure / action fiction