Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466834951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald—and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. "He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."
Selected Stories
Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466834951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald—and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. "He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466834951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald—and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. "He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."
Selected Stories
Author: William Trevor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101476524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A marvelous collection from "the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" (The New Yorker). Four-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, three-time winner of the Whitbread Prize, and five-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, William Trevor is one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. Over a career spanning more than half a century, Trevor has crafted exquisitely rendered tales that brilliantly illuminate the human condition. Bringing together forty-eight stories from After Rain, The Hill Bachelors, A Bit on the Side, and Cheating at Canasta, this second volume of Trevor's collected fiction offers readers "treasures of gorgeous writing, brilliant dialogue, and unforgettable lives" (The New York Times Book Review).
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101476524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A marvelous collection from "the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" (The New Yorker). Four-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, three-time winner of the Whitbread Prize, and five-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, William Trevor is one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. Over a career spanning more than half a century, Trevor has crafted exquisitely rendered tales that brilliantly illuminate the human condition. Bringing together forty-eight stories from After Rain, The Hill Bachelors, A Bit on the Side, and Cheating at Canasta, this second volume of Trevor's collected fiction offers readers "treasures of gorgeous writing, brilliant dialogue, and unforgettable lives" (The New York Times Book Review).
Selected Stories
Author: Alice Munro
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099541092
Category : Classical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Short Stories. This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099541092
Category : Classical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Short Stories. This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.
Selected Stories (Collins Classics)
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008284962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008284962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
Selected Stories
Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Fifteen stories by an Argentinian writer mixing the fantastic with the real. The subjects range from love to madness.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Fifteen stories by an Argentinian writer mixing the fantastic with the real. The subjects range from love to madness.
Signals
Author: Tim Gautreaux
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0451493052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art." After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities--a remarkable cast of characters, primarily of the working class, proud and knowledgeable about the natural or mechanical world, their lives marked by a prized stereo or a magical sewing machine retrieved from a locked safe, boats and card games and casinos, grandparents and grandchildren and those in between, their experiences leading them to the ridiculous or the scarifying or the sublime; most of them striving for what's right and good, others tearing off in the opposite direction.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0451493052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art." After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities--a remarkable cast of characters, primarily of the working class, proud and knowledgeable about the natural or mechanical world, their lives marked by a prized stereo or a magical sewing machine retrieved from a locked safe, boats and card games and casinos, grandparents and grandchildren and those in between, their experiences leading them to the ridiculous or the scarifying or the sublime; most of them striving for what's right and good, others tearing off in the opposite direction.
Selected Stories
Author: Kjell Askildsen
Publisher: Norwegian Literature
ISBN: 9781628970289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A man and a woman in an isolated house, surrounded by nothing, or nearly nothing; besieged by urban desert or actual wilderness, by alcohol, cigarettes, and ghosts; by mothers, fathers, and lovers who have disappeared... Written in a seemingly unadorned style, with flashes of pitch-black humor, Askildsen's devastating stories convey in few words a portrait of life and thought as they are actually experienced, balanced between despair and hope, memories and expectations. He is recognized as one of the greatest Norwegian writers of the twentieth century, and among the greatest short-story authors of all time.
Publisher: Norwegian Literature
ISBN: 9781628970289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A man and a woman in an isolated house, surrounded by nothing, or nearly nothing; besieged by urban desert or actual wilderness, by alcohol, cigarettes, and ghosts; by mothers, fathers, and lovers who have disappeared... Written in a seemingly unadorned style, with flashes of pitch-black humor, Askildsen's devastating stories convey in few words a portrait of life and thought as they are actually experienced, balanced between despair and hope, memories and expectations. He is recognized as one of the greatest Norwegian writers of the twentieth century, and among the greatest short-story authors of all time.
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
Author: Mavis Gallant
Publisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : Manners and customs
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of such intricate simplicity and spare complexity that critics have rightly compared her with Henry James and Anton Chekhov. Readers will discover, or rediscover, the pleasure of reading one of the finest writers of our time.
Publisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : Manners and customs
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of such intricate simplicity and spare complexity that critics have rightly compared her with Henry James and Anton Chekhov. Readers will discover, or rediscover, the pleasure of reading one of the finest writers of our time.
The Collected Stories
Author: William Trevor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140232451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1281
Book Description
A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories full of the reversals, surprises, and shadowy truths we discover in life itself. To read this volume is not just to encounter an extraordinary literary stylist, but to understand life as surely as though we were looking through the eyes of his protagonists and—deeper still—into their hearts. William Trevor: The Collected Stories includes the tales from his seven previous books, as well as four stories that have never appeared in book form in America. They depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family relationships, and the elusive grace of love. They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140232451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1281
Book Description
A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories full of the reversals, surprises, and shadowy truths we discover in life itself. To read this volume is not just to encounter an extraordinary literary stylist, but to understand life as surely as though we were looking through the eyes of his protagonists and—deeper still—into their hearts. William Trevor: The Collected Stories includes the tales from his seven previous books, as well as four stories that have never appeared in book form in America. They depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family relationships, and the elusive grace of love. They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
Author: Kate Chopin
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
"The Awakening and Selected Short Stories" is a collection of works by Kate Chopin. The central part of the book belongs to the novella "The Awakening," which caused turbulence among critics in 1899, the year it was first published. The novella tells the story of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier, who turns away from convention and society toward her nature. It is a story of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threatened to consume her.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
"The Awakening and Selected Short Stories" is a collection of works by Kate Chopin. The central part of the book belongs to the novella "The Awakening," which caused turbulence among critics in 1899, the year it was first published. The novella tells the story of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier, who turns away from convention and society toward her nature. It is a story of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threatened to consume her.