The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith: The Penguin Book of the British Short Story, cartea 2
Editat de Philip Hensheren Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 sep 2016
'Mind-stretching, heart-breaking, beautifully-crafted fiction' Claire Harman,Evening Standard
'She would tear the house down - shatter the windows, slash the furniture, flood the baths, fire the curtains!'
Hilarious, exuberant, surreal, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular and above all unexpected: this extraordinary selection celebrates the British short story from the 1920s to the present day. From Angela Carter to V. S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Taylor to J. G. Ballard, Ali Smith to a host of little-known works from magazines and periodicals, and including tales of air-raids, phone sex, snobbery, modern-day slavery, grief, desire, the familiar and the strange, here is the short story in all its limitless possibilities.
Edited and with an introduction by Philip Hensher, the award-winning novelist, critic and journalist.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141396026
ISBN-10: 0141396024
Pagini: 784
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria The Penguin Book of the British Short Story
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141396024
Pagini: 784
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria The Penguin Book of the British Short Story
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Philip Hensher is the editor of The Penguin Book of the British Short Story (two volumes) and of The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story. His most recent novel is A Small Revolution in Germany.
Recenzii
Hensher's
anthology
is
bigger,
better
and
broader
in
several
senses
than
anything
else
currently
available
Almost 100 potent doses of the form which editor Philip Hensher claims very plausibly to be "the richest, most varied and most historically extensive national tradition anywhere in the world"... Hensher has spent a couple of years searching libraries and magazine archives and comes out staggering under a weight of treasures
Like one of the legion of cantankerous, eccentric hosts we meet across this generous terrain, Hensher knows how to lay a grand spread...so enjoy the feast
Anyone reading this collection just for pleasure should start at the end of the second volume and work backwards...it would quickly bring you to four outstanding stories by women...each of these, though quickly over, leaves a lasting mark in the mind
Big and clever...three cheers then, for this chunky two-volume anthology, edited by Philip Hensher with imagination and a dash of mischievous wit
Made me shiver with pleasure
Charted a very personal view of the form's development from the early 18th century to the present day'
It's been a big year for anthologies and few come bigger than The Penguin Book of the British Short Story. Philip Hensher's introduction is spiky and thought-provoking and Volume I: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan and Volume II: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith (Penguin Classic, £25 each) offer readers the chance to enjoy the varieties and mutations of British stories across four centuries.
In two handsomely designed volumes ... you have to admire Hensher's championing of unfamiliar names alongside established greats
Almost 100 potent doses of the form which editor Philip Hensher claims very plausibly to be "the richest, most varied and most historically extensive national tradition anywhere in the world"... Hensher has spent a couple of years searching libraries and magazine archives and comes out staggering under a weight of treasures
Like one of the legion of cantankerous, eccentric hosts we meet across this generous terrain, Hensher knows how to lay a grand spread...so enjoy the feast
Anyone reading this collection just for pleasure should start at the end of the second volume and work backwards...it would quickly bring you to four outstanding stories by women...each of these, though quickly over, leaves a lasting mark in the mind
Big and clever...three cheers then, for this chunky two-volume anthology, edited by Philip Hensher with imagination and a dash of mischievous wit
Made me shiver with pleasure
Charted a very personal view of the form's development from the early 18th century to the present day'
It's been a big year for anthologies and few come bigger than The Penguin Book of the British Short Story. Philip Hensher's introduction is spiky and thought-provoking and Volume I: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan and Volume II: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith (Penguin Classic, £25 each) offer readers the chance to enjoy the varieties and mutations of British stories across four centuries.
In two handsomely designed volumes ... you have to admire Hensher's championing of unfamiliar names alongside established greats