A World of Great Stories by
This remarkable collection of 115 short stories from around the globe represents the very pinnacle of writing from the last decade of the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. Thoughtfully edited to include well-known writers of the time and those that would have great influence on storytellers of the future, readers are sure to discover scores of new writers and appreciate those they already know even more. Contributors range from England's D.H. Lawrence, Denmark's Isak Dines, New Zealand's Katherine Mansfield, Ferenc Molnar from Hungary, and Anton Chekhov from Russia, to Ben Hecht and Ring Lardner in the U.S., and a host of others from across the North and South America, Europe and Asia.
Reference Guide to Short Fiction by
Reference Guide to Short Fiction provides study and commentary on the most instrumental writers of short fiction through the 20th century. International in scope, this single scholarly volume includes 779 entries on 377 authors and 402 short stories.
Short Story Writers and Short Stories by
A collection of critical writings about some of the greatest short story writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ivan Turgenev, Jack London, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest Hemingway, and John Updike.
The Art of the Short Story by
From Chinua Achebe and Sherwood Anderson to Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf, The Art of the Short Story presents masterpieces of short fiction from 52 classic, contemporary and new voices. No other collection of short stories encompasses such a vast and enriching global and historical mix.
The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story by
Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.
