The Best American Short Stories of the Century

A collection of fifty-five important pieces of short fiction of the twentieth century features masterworks by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, and other notable writers.

Info autore

John Updike is the author of numerous books, including the acclaimed "Rabbit" novels, Couples, In the Beauty of the Lilies, and Bech at Bay. He has won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1998 he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: john Updike (Editore), Katrina Kenison (Editore)
• Autori: john Updike, Katrina Kenison
• Editore: Houghton Mifflin
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 14.07.2000
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780395843673
• ISBN: 978-0-395-84367-3
• Numero di pagine: 835
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.3 x 22.9 x 5.3 cm
• Serie: Best American Series (R); Best American; The Best American Series ®
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