50 Greatest Short Stories de Terry O'Brien

50 Greatest Short Stories

Terry O'Brien

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 noi 2015

50 Greatest Short Stories is a selection from the best of the world's short fiction, bringing together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, readers are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Lady with the Dog', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Rain' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', to name but a few. This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories is a collector's item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world's finest writing and for newer readers to be introduced to it. Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. Rider Haggard, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, W.W. Jacobs, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Jerome K. Jerome, H.G. Wells, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Frank Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Leacock, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, M. R. James, W. Somerset Maugham, R. L. Stevenson.

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Terry O'Brien was born in Mackay Qld and now lives in Chinchilla. Terry has been a teacher in private high schools for over 30 years, being influential in the formation of many young adult lives. He has earned a graduate diploma in religious education which has led him to a passionate interest in learning how to see beyond human conditioning and prejudice. Terry sees himself as a distributor of ideas. His words merely act as a mirror in which to see yourself as a guide to personal fulfilment. He is an avid reader and enjoys walking, playing golf, and supporting the community.