The World's Greatest Short Stories: Selections from Hemingway, Tolstoy, Woolf, Chekhov, Joyce, Updike and More - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:James DaleySeries:Dover Thrift EditionsPublish date:2006-04-28Pages:256
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dover PublicationsISBN-13:9780486447162ISBN-10:486447162UPC:9780486447162Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), ClassicsSize:7.90 x 4.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCYQHGNDPT
Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe.
Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A & P," John Updike's most anthologized story and one of his most popular; "Borges and I," typical Jorge Luis Borges -- imaginative, philosophical, and mysterious; as well as short masterpieces by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, Guy de Maupassant, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D. H. Lawrence, and ten other great writers.
Prime examples of the classic short story, these enduring literary treasures will be invaluable to students and teachers as well as to anyone who appreciates the finely turned tale.
Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A & P," John Updike's most anthologized story and one of his most popular; "Borges and I," typical Jorge Luis Borges -- imaginative, philosophical, and mysterious; as well as short masterpieces by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Thomas Mann, Guy de Maupassant, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D. H. Lawrence, and ten other great writers.
Prime examples of the classic short story, these enduring literary treasures will be invaluable to students and teachers as well as to anyone who appreciates the finely turned tale.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dover PublicationsISBN-13:9780486447162ISBN-10:486447162UPC:9780486447162Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), ClassicsSize:7.90 x 4.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCYQHGNDPT
James Daley is the editor of several Dover editions, including The Book of Green Quotations, Classic Crime Stories, Favorite Christmas Poems, Great Speeches by African Americans, and Great Writers on the Art of Fiction.
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