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Genre/Form: | Short stories Fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Oxford book of short stories. New York : Oxford University Press, 1981 (OCoLC)561572744 Online version: Oxford book of short stories. New York : Oxford University Press, 1981 (OCoLC)610209177 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter Scott; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Edgar Allan Poe; Mark Twain; Bret Harte; Ambrose Bierce; Henry James; Robert Louis Stevenson; Joseph Conrad; Rudyard Kipling; O Henry; Saki; Stephen Crane; Walter De la Mare; W Somerset Maugham; Sherwood Anderson; A E Coppard; James Joyce; Ring Lardner; Katherine Mansfield; Katherine Anne Porter; Liam O'Flaherty; William Faulkner; Ernest Hemingway; Elizabeth Bowen; Seán O'Faoláin; Frank O'Connor; Morley Callaghan; H E Bates; R K Narayan; Eudora Welty; William Sansom; Mary Lavin; Patrick White; John Cheever; Doris Lessing; Flannery O'Connor; William Trevor; John Updike; V S Pritchett |
ISBN: | 0192141163 9780192141163 9780199583133 0199583137 019282113X 9780192821133 0192801910 9780192801913 |
OCLC Number: | 8035224 |
Description: | xiv, 547 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- Birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- Iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte -- Coup de grâce / Ambrose Bierce -- Paste / Henry James -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Record of Badalia Herodsfoot / Rudyard Kipling -- Telemachus, friend / O. Henry -- Sredni Vashtar / Hector Hugh Munro ('Saki') -- Open boat / Stephen Crane -- Ideal craftsman / Walter De La Mare -- Official position / W. Somerset Maugham -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- Field of mustard / A.E. Coppard -- Grace / James Joyce -- Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Who dealt? / Ring Lardner -- Woman at the store / Katherine Mansfield -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- The tent / Liam O'Flaherty -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Many are disappointed / V.S. Pritchett -- Sinners / Sean O'Faolain -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- Runaway / Morley Callaghan -- Never / H.E. Bates -- Horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan -- Visit of charity / Eudora Welty -- Various temptations / William Sansom -- My vocation / Mary Lavin -- Five-twenty / Patrick White -- Goodbye, my brother / John Cheever -- Mrs. Fortescue / Doris Lessing -- Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor -- Going home / William Trevor -- Lifeguard / John Updike. |
Responsibility: | chosen by V.S. Pritchett. |
Abstract:
V. S. Pritchett, one of 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.
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