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The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis Broché - 6 octobre 2011 Édition en Anglais de Kasia Boddy (Auteur) 101 évaluations Format Kindle 2,60 € Lisez avec notre Appli gratuite Broché 11,95 € 4 D'occasion à partir de 7,82 € 13 Neuf à partir de 11,53 €

The last 50 years have proved a particularly lively period in the history of the short story form. This new collection gives a fUlL. picture of the richness and diversity of this most American of genres from its very beginnings to the present day. The collection offers a freshly stimulating combination of old favourites such as Mark Twain's 'Jim Smiley's Jumping Frog' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart', unfamiliar works by well-known authors, such as Ernest Hemingway's 'Out of Season

The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a richly diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm labourers, slaves, soldiers and salesmen, witches and ghosts, families and lovers. Their stories are told by some of America's most celebrated writers (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Raymond Carver) and a few

New Penguin Book Of American Short Stories: from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis Kasia Boddy (Editor, Introduction) 3.64 104 ratings14 reviews The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present