Oxford Book of Short Stories

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.

Product details

• Authors: V. S. Pritchett
• Assisted by: the late V. S. (Novelist Pritchett (Editor), V. S. Pritchett (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2010
• EAN: 9780199583133
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958313-3
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
• Subjects: Education and learning; 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