The Oxford Book Of English Short Stories
Download The Oxford Book Of English Short Stories full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Oxford Book Of English Short Stories ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
Author | : Antonia Susan Byatt |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Angleterre - Mœurs et coutumes - Romans, nouvelles, etc |
ISBN | : 0192881116 |
Download The Oxford Book of English Short Stories Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.'
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0195092627 |
Download The Oxford Book of American Short Stories Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English
Author | : Margaret Atwood,Robert Weaver |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105018293295 |
Download The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A survey of Canada's leading writers features forty-seven stories, with new pieces by writers in the original Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories. Included are short stories by W. P. Kinsella, Morley Callaghan, Timothy Findlay, Matt Cohen, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood.
The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
Author | : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1999-07-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780195130850 |
Download The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
Author | : Theodore William Goossen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780192803726 |
Download The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 entire development of the Japanese short story.
The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English
Author | : Margaret Atwood,Robert Weaver |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : UOM:39015012076850 |
Download The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
The Oxford Book of French Short Stories
Author | : Elizabeth Fallaize |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2010-03-18 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780191614927 |
Download The Oxford Book of French Short Stories Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
Author | : A. S. Byatt |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2009-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0199561605 |
Download The Oxford Book of English Short Stories Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories celebrates the excellences of the English short story. The thirty-seven stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by authors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject-matter.