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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2010.Description: xiv, 547 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199583133
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR1309
  • PR1309.P961.O946 2010
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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 -- Coup de grace 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.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction PR1309.S5.O9 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001520077

Originally published: 1981.

Includes bibliographies 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 -- Coup de grace 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.

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