The Oxford Book of Short Stories |
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Editor:
| Pritchett, V. S. |
Series title: | Oxford Books of Prose Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-280191-3 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2001 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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V. S. Pritchett has chosen forty-one stories that successfully display the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years. Readers will find stories by Sir Walter Scott and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway and D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham and 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, and Frank O'Connor.
V. S. Pritchett has chosen forty-one stories that successfully display the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years. Readers will find stories by Sir Walter Scott and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway and D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham and 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, and Frank O'Connor.