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.

Sommario

• 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: V. S. Pritchett
• Con la collaborazione di: the late V. S. (Novelist Pritchett (Editore), V. S. Pritchett (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press Trade
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.03.2010
• EAN: 9780199583133
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958313-3
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Serie: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
• Categorie: Libri scolastici; Narrativa > Romanzi; 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