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Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199744398
Presents a collection of fifty-nine familiar and unfamiliar stories by such writers as John Cheever, Ray Bradbury, Flannery O'Connor, Edmund White, and Richard Wright.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195092627
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1368216064
Author : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195130850
This collection brings together 53 stories that span the history of Latin American literature and represent the most dazzling achievements in the form. It covers the entire history of Latin American short fiction, from the colonial period to present.
Author : Victor Sawdon Pritchett
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192141163
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.
Author : Theodore William Goossen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Japanese fiction
ISBN : 9780192803726
This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the development of the Japanese short story. Various indigenous traditions, in addition to those drawn from the West, recur throughout the stories: stories of the self, of the Water Trade (Tokyo's nightlife of geishas and prostitutes), of social comment, love and obsession, legends and fairytales. This collection includes the work of two Nobel prize-winners: Kawabata and Oe, the talented women writers Hirabayashi, Euchi, Okamoto, and Hayashi, together with the acclaimed Tanizaki, Mishima, and Murakami. The introduction by Theodore Goossen gives insight into these exotic and enigmatic, sometimes disturbing stories, derived from the lyrical roots of Japanese literature with its distinctive stress on atmosphere and beauty.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : OCLC:1252105295
Author : Stewart Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0192802291
The Caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literature. This collection extends beyond the realm of English-speaking writers, to include stories published in Spanish, French, and Dutch. It brings together contributions from major figures such as V. S. Naipaul, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and work from the exciting new generation of Caribbean writers represented by Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid.
Author : Pat McNees
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780449912263
Striking in its imagery, its history, and its breathtaking scope, Latin American fiction has finally come into its own throughout the world. Collected in this brilliant volume are thirty-five of the finest writers of this century, including: Jorge Luis Borges Carlos Fuentes Julio Cortazar Miguel Angel Asturias Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jorge Amado Octavio Paz Juan Bosch Jose Donoso Horacio Quiroga Mario Vargas Llosa Abelardo Castillo Guillermo Cabrera Infante And many more
Author : Antonia Susan Byatt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Angleterre - Mœurs et coutumes - Romans, nouvelles, etc
ISBN : 0192881116
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, edited by A. S. Byatt, who has published several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to take the English short story as its theme. The thirty-seven stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, byauthors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan, though many draw ingeniously from the richness of earlier English literary writing. There are all sorts of threads of connection and contrast running through these stories. Their subjects vary from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the momentous to the trivial, from the grim to the farcical. There is English empiricism, English pragmatism, English starkness, English humour,English satire, English dandyism, English horror, and English whimsy. There are examples of social realism, from rural poverty to blitzed London; ghost stories and tales of the supernatural; surreal fantasy and science fiction. There are stories of sensibility, precisely delineated, from Hardy'sreluctant bride to the shocked heroine of Elizabeth Taylor's The Blush, from H. E. Bates's brilliant fusion of class, sex, death, and landscape, to D. H. Lawrence's exploration of a consciousness slowly detaching itself from its world. There are exuberant stories by Saki and Waugh, Wodehouse andFirbank, with a particularly English range from high irony to pure orchestrated farce. The very range and scope of the collection celebrates the eccentric differences and excellences of English short stories Some of A. S. Byatt's choices clearly take their place in the grand tradition of story-telling, while others are more unusual.Many break all the rules of unity of tone andnarrative, appearing to be one kind of story before unexpectedly turning into another. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject-matter. As A. S. Byatt explains: 'My only criterion was that those stories I selectedshould be startling and satisfying, and if possible make the hairs on the neck prickle with excitement, aesthetic or narrative.'
Author : Elizabeth Fallaize
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191614927
This collection of French short stories in translation expands our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of Francophone origin. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, the collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the Marquis de Sade, takes in the masters of the nineteenth century, from Stendhal and Balzac to Maupassant, and reaches to Quebec, Africa, and the French Caribbean in the twentieth century. Women writers include relatively well known figures such as Renee Vivien, Colette, and Beauvoir, and newer writers such as Assia Djebar, Christiane Baroche, and Annie Saumont. The French short story is a rich and diverse medium, but all the stories selected share a common characteristic: they make exciting reading.
Author : Glenda Abramson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X004041313
Glenda Abramson's informative introduction sets the scene for a powerful literary collection, the definitive anthology of a vibrant modern genre.
Author : Margaret Atwood,Robert Weaver
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015012076850
Arranged chronologically with forty stories in all, the book provides an excellent survey of Canada's leading writers, including a story by Atwood herself ("The Sin Eater"), as well as stories by Morley Callaghan ("Last Spring They Came Over"), Mordecai Richler ("The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die"), and Stephen Leacock ("The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias"). The book features biographical notes and an index of authors.
Author : Edward L. Ayers,Bradley C. Mittendorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780195124934
Gathers short stories, journalism, and excerpts from novels, diaries, and memoirs by Southern authors.
Author : Tom Shippey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192803816
A collection of classic science fiction short stories features tales by H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clark, Frederik Pohl, Clifford Simak, Brian Aldiss, Ursala K. LeGuin, and many others. Edited by the author of The Road to Middle-Earth. 20,000 first printing.