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THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH SHORT STORIES (OXFORD BOOKS OF PROSE) By A. S. Byatt - Hardcover **Mint Condition**.

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"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." For short story lovers and anyone unable to resist the enchantments of the English imagination, The Oxford Book of Short Stories offers a wide array of unforgettable pleasures.

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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0192142380
ISBN-13
9780192142382
eBay Product ID (ePID)
686489

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Book Title
Oxford Book of English Short Stories
Author
A. S. Byatt
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Number of Pages
470 Pages

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8.6in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
24.3 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pr1309.S5
Reviews
This is essentially one person's choice: quirky and idiosyncratic, veryEnglish in its old-fashioned literary values./ This is an enjoyable collection/Eva Figes/ Highbury and Islington Express/ 22/05/98, This is essentially one person's choice: quirky and idiosyncratic, very English in its old-fashioned literary values./ This is an enjoyable collection/ Eva Figes/ Highbury and Islington Express/ 22/05/98
Table of Content
IntroductionThe Sacristan of St BotolphThe Haunted HouseRelics of General Chassé, A Tale of AntwerpA Mere InterludeLittle BrotherTwo DoctorsBehind the ShadeWirelessUnder the KnifeA White NightThe Toys of PeaceThe Tremendous Adventures of Major BrownSome Talk of AlexanderThe Reverent Wooing of ArchibaldSolid ObjectsThe Man who Loved IslandsA Tragedy in GreenA Widow's QuiltNuns at LuncheonLandlord of the Crystal FountainOn the Edge of the CliffA Dream of WinterAn Englishman's HomeThe DestructorsThe WaterfallThe TrollThe BlushAt HiruharamaMy Flannel KnickersEnoch's Two LettersDream CargoesTelephoneMy StoryThe KissThe Beauty of the Dawn ShiftSolid GeometryDead Languages
Copyright Date
1998
Lccn
97-044998
Dewey Decimal
823/.0108
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Oxford Books of Prose Ser.
Dewey Edition
21

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