The Oxford Book of English Short Stories

Klappentext A fresh contemporary design for A. S. Byatt's celebrated anthology of English short stories The Oxford Book of English Short Stories.The 37 stories featured here are selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, by authors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. Zusammenfassung A fresh contemporary design for A. S. Byatt's celebrated anthology of English short stories The Oxford Book of English Short Stories.The 37 stories featured here are selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, by authors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Sacristan of St Botolph The Haunted House Relics of General Chassé, A Tale of Antwerp A Mere Interlude Little Brother Two Doctors Behind the Shade Wireless Under the Knife A White Night The Toys of Peace The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown Some Talk of Alexander The Reverent Wooing of Archibald Solid Objects The Man who Loved Islands A Tragedy in Green A Widow's Quilt Nuns at Luncheon Landlord of the Crystal Fountain On the Edge of the Cliff A Dream of Winter An Englishman's Home The Destructors The Waterfall The Troll The Blush At Hiruharama My Flannel Knickers Enoch's Two Letters Dream Cargoes Telephone My Story The Kiss The Beauty of the Dawn Shift Solid Geometry Dead Languages

Product details

• Authors: A.S. Byatt
• Assisted by: A. S. Byatt (Editor), Antonia S. Byatt (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.03.2009
• EAN: 9780199561605
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956160-5
• No. of pages: 439
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse; Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary