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The Oxford Book of Short Stories

By - Pritchett, V. S.
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Oxford University Press, New York, 1981
ISBN 10 - 0192141163
ISBN 13 - 9780192141163
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Short stories, American
Shelf No - 7
Call Number - 823.0108 PRI
Physical Description - xiv, 547 pages ; 23 cm
Notes - Includes index
Book Information
V. S. Pritchett, one of our greatest short story writers, has chosen forty-one stories from nine countries 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. The United States, Great Britain, and Ireland have fine traditions of short story writing that have developed from the time of Sir Walter Scott and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the twentieth century the art was perfected by Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, John Updike, and V. S. Pritchett himself. Other contributions in the book come from such masters as James Joyce, Mark Twain, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Frank O'Connor, H. E. Bates, William Trevor, and Liam O'Flaherty. Now, the collection of short story masters extends to Canadian, Indian, New Zealander, and Australian writers, who show in the works included here the full range of invention and ability in a genre that continues to flourish.

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