Author: Jean Moore
Publisher: Hodder Murray
ISBN: 9780340737422
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
This text is an anthology containing stories by writers such as Defoe, Swift, Dickens, Gaskell and Hardy. The book provides opportunities for comparisons between texts and should stimulate coursework. The stories are complete and unabridged and have been selected to enable readers to compare different writing styles and enjoy a rich variety of language.
Pre-twentieth Century Short Stories
Author: Jean Moore
Publisher: Hodder Murray
ISBN: 9780340737422
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
This text is an anthology containing stories by writers such as Defoe, Swift, Dickens, Gaskell and Hardy. The book provides opportunities for comparisons between texts and should stimulate coursework. The stories are complete and unabridged and have been selected to enable readers to compare different writing styles and enjoy a rich variety of language.
Publisher: Hodder Murray
ISBN: 9780340737422
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
This text is an anthology containing stories by writers such as Defoe, Swift, Dickens, Gaskell and Hardy. The book provides opportunities for comparisons between texts and should stimulate coursework. The stories are complete and unabridged and have been selected to enable readers to compare different writing styles and enjoy a rich variety of language.
Twentieth Century Short Stories
Author: Douglas R. Barnes
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780174441700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The stories in this impressive collection have been chosen for the challenge they offer the reader and the variety of language used.
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780174441700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The stories in this impressive collection have been chosen for the challenge they offer the reader and the variety of language used.
Short Story Masterpieces
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440378648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time. A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence Barn Burning by William Faulkner The Sojourner by Carson McCullers The Open Window by Saki Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter The Boarding House by James Joyce Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty . . . and twenty-five more of the century’s best stories!
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440378648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time. A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence Barn Burning by William Faulkner The Sojourner by Carson McCullers The Open Window by Saki Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter The Boarding House by James Joyce Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty . . . and twenty-five more of the century’s best stories!
20th Century American Short Stories
Author: Jean A. McConochie
Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Pub
ISBN: 9780838448519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Introduces students to American literature through unabridged, unsimplified stories written by a variety of American authors. Includes pre-and post-reading support, discussion and writing activities to help promote both reading and writing.
Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Pub
ISBN: 9780838448519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Introduces students to American literature through unabridged, unsimplified stories written by a variety of American authors. Includes pre-and post-reading support, discussion and writing activities to help promote both reading and writing.
Twentieth Century Short Stories
50 Writers
Author: Lipovetsy M. N. (Mark Naumovich)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936235223
Category : Russian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the twentieth century. It includes the prose of officially recognized writers and dissidents, both well-known and neglected or forgotten, plus new authors from the end of the century. The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in this era: traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. Taken as a whole, the stories capture every major aspect of Russian life, history and culture in the twentieth century. The rich array of themes and styles will be of tremendous interest to students and readers who want to learn about Russia through the engaging genre of the short story.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936235223
Category : Russian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the twentieth century. It includes the prose of officially recognized writers and dissidents, both well-known and neglected or forgotten, plus new authors from the end of the century. The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in this era: traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. Taken as a whole, the stories capture every major aspect of Russian life, history and culture in the twentieth century. The rich array of themes and styles will be of tremendous interest to students and readers who want to learn about Russia through the engaging genre of the short story.
The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story
Author: Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316033597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This Companion provides an accessible overview of short fiction by writers from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and other international sites. A collection of international experts examine the development of the short story in a variety of contexts from the early nineteenth century to the present. They consider how dramatic changes in the publishing landscape during this period - such as the rise of the fiction magazine and the emergence of new opportunities in online and electronic publishing - influenced the form, covering subgenres from detective fiction to flash fiction. Drawing on a wealth of critical scholarship to place the short story in the English literary tradition, this volume will be an invaluable guide for students of the short story in English.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316033597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This Companion provides an accessible overview of short fiction by writers from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and other international sites. A collection of international experts examine the development of the short story in a variety of contexts from the early nineteenth century to the present. They consider how dramatic changes in the publishing landscape during this period - such as the rise of the fiction magazine and the emergence of new opportunities in online and electronic publishing - influenced the form, covering subgenres from detective fiction to flash fiction. Drawing on a wealth of critical scholarship to place the short story in the English literary tradition, this volume will be an invaluable guide for students of the short story in English.
Twentieth century American short stories
The Short Story in America, 1900-1950
Author: Ray Benedict West
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Though it takes much concentration and will for her to accomplish each task, a little girl with Down's syndrome is happy to have many loving helpers along the way.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Though it takes much concentration and will for her to accomplish each task, a little girl with Down's syndrome is happy to have many loving helpers along the way.
Twentieth Century American Short Stories
Author: Jean A. McConochie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780838432334
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780838432334
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description