The Oxford Book of English Short Stories |
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Editor:
| Byatt, A. S. |
Series title: | Oxford Books of Prose Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-280376-4 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2003 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.