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The World of the Short Story Houghton Mifflin 1986 , Selected and Edited by Clifton Fadiman
From Library Journal
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing
career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16
countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of
high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more,
offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes
Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William
Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene,
Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James
Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of
permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's
short stories that readers from all over the world will read with
delight. Glenn O. Carey, English Dept., Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Details
- Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House Value Publishing (September 24, 1990)
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book from an old-book sale at the library, and it has
been one of the best short story anthologies I've ever picked up.
Clifton Fadiman has selected some of the 20th century's most talented
writers and put some of their best short works into this volume. There's
something for nearly everyone in here - from Dino Buzzati's chilling
"The End of the World" to Milan Kundera's acerbic "The Hitchhiking Game"
to Margaret Atwood's hilarious "The Man From Mars." Other authors
showcased in this volume include Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever and
Carson McCullers.This book is especially good for someone who doesn't
have a lot of time (such as me), or someone who has a short attention
span. Colette's "The Other Wife," for example, is only a page and a half
- yet when you're finished with the story, you feel like you've come
away with something. Overall, a great volume. If you can find it in one
of the used shops here, grab it.
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
Second Edition
編者在Introduction 中將沈從文列為世界第一流的短篇小說家: "...Do we have anything to compare with Maupassant and Chekho, Shen Tsung-Wen and Calvino, Borges and Kafka?..."
Book Description
"The subjects of these stories range from the sublime to
the ridiculous, from the momentous to the trivial, from the grim to the
farcical," writes acclaimed novelist A.S. Byatt in her introduction to
this remarkable collection. Indeed, if the eccentricities of the English
imagination can be contained in a single volume, an anthology of short
stories might be the best book for the task.
From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and many others, The Oxford Book of English Short Stories exhibits the capacious and often capricious nature of the English literary sensibility. "There is English empiricism, English pragmatism, English starkness, English humour, English satire, English dandyism, English horror, and English whimsy," notes A.S. Byatt in surveying the stories she has selected. "There are characteristic mixed modes which seem to go back further than Austen and Defoe to Chaucer and Shakespeare." Byatt shows us the links between stories, the literary currents that both connect and distinguish writers as diverse as Mary Mann, V.S. Pritchett, P.G. Wodehouse, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Alan Sillitoe. And although the thirty-seven stories gathered here range from social realism to surreal fantasy, from rural poverty to war-blitzed London, from tales of the supernatural to precise delineations of the mundane, all are unified by Byatt's demanding criteria that the works be both "startling and satisfying."
From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and many others, The Oxford Book of English Short Stories exhibits the capacious and often capricious nature of the English literary sensibility. "There is English empiricism, English pragmatism, English starkness, English humour, English satire, English dandyism, English horror, and English whimsy," notes A.S. Byatt in surveying the stories she has selected. "There are characteristic mixed modes which seem to go back further than Austen and Defoe to Chaucer and Shakespeare." Byatt shows us the links between stories, the literary currents that both connect and distinguish writers as diverse as Mary Mann, V.S. Pritchett, P.G. Wodehouse, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Alan Sillitoe. And although the thirty-seven stories gathered here range from social realism to surreal fantasy, from rural poverty to war-blitzed London, from tales of the supernatural to precise delineations of the mundane, all are unified by Byatt's demanding criteria that the works be both "startling and satisfying."
Features
- Edited by prize-winning novelist, essayist, broadcaster, and reviewer A. S. Byatt
- The 37 short stories featured range from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan
- Encompasses comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, ranging from social realism to the supernatural, surreal fantasy to science fiction
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