Encyclopedia of the British Short Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of the British Short Story write by Andrew Maunder. This book was released on 2015-04-22. Encyclopedia of the British Short Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth, featuring some of the most popular writers and works.
The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914
The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 write by Philip Hensher. This book was released on 2020-10-01. The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Excellent, entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle, this fine anthology celebrates one of the richest moments in Britain's literary history' Sunday Times The quarter century between 1890 and the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain, fuelled by a large, eager new magazine readership. The great writers of the age produced some of their finest work, and literary genres - the ghost story, science fiction - took shape. This richly varied, endlessly entertaining anthology brings together authors from Katherine Mansfield to Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce to Saki, H. G. Wells to Rebecca West. It celebrates a teeming, innovative world of literary achievement. Edited with an introduction by Philip Hensher
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1 write by Philip Hensher. This book was released on 2015-11-05. The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected: these two extraordinary volumes contain the limitless possibilities of the British short story. This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. The most famous authors are here, and many others, including some magnificent stories never republished since their first appearance in magazines and periodicals. The Penguin Book of the British Short Story has a permanent authority, and will be reached for year in and year out. This volume takes the story from its origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding to the 'golden age' of the fin de siècle and Edwardian period. Edited and with an introduction by Philip Hensher, the award-winning novelist, critic and journalist.
The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story
The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story write by Andrew Maunder. This book was released on 2007. The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth. With approximately 450 entries, this A-to-Z guide explores the literary contributions of such writers as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Amis, and others.
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story write by Philip Hensher. This book was released on 2019-06-27. The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His introduction is as enriching as anything that has been published this year' Sunday Times A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted a host of remarkable, subversive, entertaining and innovative writers. Philip Hensher, following the success of his definitive Penguin Book of British Short Stories, has scoured a vast trove of material and chosen thirty great stories for this new volume of works written between 1997 and the present day. Includes short stories by A.L. Kennedy, Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jackie Kay, Graham Swift, Jane Gardam, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman, Martin Amis, China Miéville, Peter Hobbs, Thomas Morris, David Rose, David Szalay, Irvine Welsh, Lucy Caldwell, Rose Tremain, Helen Oyeyemi, Leone Ross, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Will Self, Gerard Woodward, James Kelman, Lucy Wood, Hilary Mantel, Eley Williams, Sarah Hall, Mark Haddon and Helen Dunmore.
