The Oxford book of short stories / chosen by V.S. Pritchett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1981Copyright date: Description: xiv, 547 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0192141163
  • 9780192141163
  • 9780199583133
  • 0199583137
  • 019282113X
  • 9780192821133
  • 0192801910
  • 9780192801913
Related works:
  • Container of (work): Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Birthmark
  • Container of (work): Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Fall of the house of Usher
  • Container of (work): Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County
  • Container of (work): Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Secret sharer
  • Container of (work): Saki, 1870-1916. Sredni Vashtar
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Oxford book of short stories.; Online version:: Oxford book of short stories.DDC classification:
  • 823/.01/08 19
  • 808.83 22
LOC classification:
  • PR1309.S5 O9 1981
Online resources:
Contents:
Two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- Birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- Iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte -- Ambrose Bierce -- Paste / Henry James -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Record of Badalia Herodsfoot / Rudyard Kipling -- Telemachus, friend / O. Henry -- Sredni Vashtar / Hector Hugh Munro ('Saki') -- Open boat / Stephen Crane -- Ideal craftsman / Walter De La Mare -- Official position / W. Somerset Maugham -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- Field of mustard / A.E. Coppard -- Grace / James Joyce -- Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Who dealt? / Ring Lardner -- Woman at the store / Katherine Mansfield -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- The tent / Liam O'Flaherty -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Many are disappointed / V.S. Pritchett -- Sinners / Sean O'Faolain -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- Runaway / Morley Callaghan -- Never / H.E. Bates -- Horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan -- Visit of charity / Eudora Welty -- Various temptations / William Sansom -- My vocation / Mary Lavin -- Five-twenty / Patrick White -- Goodbye, my brother / John Cheever -- Mrs. Fortescue / Doris Lessing -- Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor -- Going home / William Trevor -- Lifeguard / John Updike.
Summary: Sir Walter Scott / The Two Drovers, Nathaniel Hawthorne/ The Birthmark, Edgar Allen Poe / The Fall Of The House Of Usher, ETC.
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Books Books Odessa College Stacks 823.01 OX98 SHORT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 51994000330987

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Two drovers / Sir Walter Scott -- Birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- Iliad of Sandy Bar / Bret Harte -- Ambrose Bierce -- Paste / Henry James -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Record of Badalia Herodsfoot / Rudyard Kipling -- Telemachus, friend / O. Henry -- Sredni Vashtar / Hector Hugh Munro ('Saki') -- Open boat / Stephen Crane -- Ideal craftsman / Walter De La Mare -- Official position / W. Somerset Maugham -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- Field of mustard / A.E. Coppard -- Grace / James Joyce -- Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Who dealt? / Ring Lardner -- Woman at the store / Katherine Mansfield -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- The tent / Liam O'Flaherty -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Many are disappointed / V.S. Pritchett -- Sinners / Sean O'Faolain -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- Runaway / Morley Callaghan -- Never / H.E. Bates -- Horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan -- Visit of charity / Eudora Welty -- Various temptations / William Sansom -- My vocation / Mary Lavin -- Five-twenty / Patrick White -- Goodbye, my brother / John Cheever -- Mrs. Fortescue / Doris Lessing -- Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor -- Going home / William Trevor -- Lifeguard / John Updike.

Sir Walter Scott / The Two Drovers, Nathaniel Hawthorne/ The Birthmark, Edgar Allen Poe / The Fall Of The House Of Usher, ETC.

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