50 Greatest Short Stories

Publication, Rupa

ISBN 10: 8129137259 / ISBN 13: 9788129137258

Edité par Rupa Publications, 2015

Num Pages: 588 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 58. Weight in Grams: 422. . 2015. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. N° de réf. du vendeur V9788129137258

Synopsis :

50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world's short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Lady with the Dog', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Rain' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', to name but a few. This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories is a collector's item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world's finest writing and for newer readers to be introduced to it. Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. Rider Haggard, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, W.W. Jacobs, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Jerome K. Jerome, H.G. Wells, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Frank Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Leacock, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, M. R. James, W. Somerset Maugham, R. L. Stevenson

À propos de l'auteur:

Terry O’Brien is an academic with three decades of experience in teaching language and communication skills in India and abroad. 

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : 50 Greatest Short Stories
Éditeur : Rupa Publications
Date d'édition : 2015
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New