Author : Victor Sawdon Pritchett
Release : 1981
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Short Stories by : Victor Sawdon Pritchett

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Short Stories written by Victor Sawdon Pritchett. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.