The Oxford Book Of Fantasy Stories
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The Oxford Book Of Fantasy Stories
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Author : T. A. Shippey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1995
The Oxford Book Of Fantasy Stories written by T. A. Shippey and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
A century's worth of the exotic and the fantastic. The stories range from Richard Garnett's "The Demon Pope," a story on soul-selling, to Terry Prachett's amusing "Troll Bridge, " in which Cohen the Barbarian philosophizes on the decline of magic.
The Oxford Book Of Science Fiction Stories
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Author : T. A. Shippey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1992
The Oxford Book Of Science Fiction Stories written by T. A. Shippey and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.
A collection of 30 stories spanning the period from 1903 (H.G. Wells) to 1990 (David Brin). Shippey (English language and medieval lit., U. of Leeds) has chosen well and reflects upon the genre in a longish introduction. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Oxford Book Of Children S Stories
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Author : Jan Mark
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1994
The Oxford Book Of Children S Stories written by Jan Mark and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A collection of short stories written for children over the past 250 years by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Carl Sandburg, Joan Aiken, and Rosa Guy.
The Oxford Book Of English Short Stories
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Author : Antonia Susan Byatt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1999
The Oxford Book Of English Short Stories written by Antonia Susan Byatt and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Angleterre - Mœurs et coutumes - Romans, nouvelles, etc categories.
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, edited by A. S. Byatt, who has published several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to take the English short story as its theme. The thirty-seven stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, byauthors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan, though many draw ingeniously from the richness of earlier English literary writing. There are all sorts of threads of connection and contrast running through these stories. Their subjects vary from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the momentous to the trivial, from the grim to the farcical. There is English empiricism, English pragmatism, English starkness, English humour,English satire, English dandyism, English horror, and English whimsy. There are examples of social realism, from rural poverty to blitzed London; ghost stories and tales of the supernatural; surreal fantasy and science fiction. There are stories of sensibility, precisely delineated, from Hardy'sreluctant bride to the shocked heroine of Elizabeth Taylor's The Blush, from H. E. Bates's brilliant fusion of class, sex, death, and landscape, to D. H. Lawrence's exploration of a consciousness slowly detaching itself from its world. There are exuberant stories by Saki and Waugh, Wodehouse andFirbank, with a particularly English range from high irony to pure orchestrated farce. The very range and scope of the collection celebrates the eccentric differences and excellences of English short stories Some of A. S. Byatt's choices clearly take their place in the grand tradition of story-telling, while others are more unusual.Many break all the rules of unity of tone andnarrative, appearing to be one kind of story before unexpectedly turning into another. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject-matter. As A. S. Byatt explains: 'My only criterion was that those stories I selectedshould be startling and satisfying, and if possible make the hairs on the neck prickle with excitement, aesthetic or narrative.'
The Oxford Book Of Fantasy Stories
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Author : T. A. Shippey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1994
The Oxford Book Of Fantasy Stories written by T. A. Shippey and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
A century's worth of the exotic and the fantastic. The stories range from Richard Garnett's "The Demon Pope," a story on soul-selling, to Terry Prachett's amusing "Troll Bridge, " in which Cohen the Barbarian philosophizes on the decline of magic.
Stories About Stories
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Author : Brian Attebery
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-02
Stories About Stories written by Brian Attebery and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02 with Fiction categories.
The first comprehensive study of fantasy's uses of myth, this book offers insights into the genre's popularity and cultural importance. Combining history, folklore, and narrative theory, Attebery's study explores familiar and forgotten fantasies and shows how the genre is also an arena for negotiating new relationships with traditional tales.
The Oxford Book Of Gothic Tales
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Author : Chris Baldick
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1993
The Oxford Book Of Gothic Tales written by Chris Baldick and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fantasy fiction categories.
Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.
The Oxford Book Of Japanese Short Stories
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Author : Theodore William Goossen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
The Oxford Book Of Japanese Short Stories written by Theodore William Goossen and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction categories.
Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the entire development of the Japanese short story.
Canadian Science Fiction And Fantasy
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Author : David Ketterer
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1992
Canadian Science Fiction And Fantasy written by David Ketterer and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.
The Oxford Book Of Children S Stories
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Author : Jan Mark
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
The Oxford Book Of Children S Stories written by Jan Mark and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Children's stories categories.
This is an anthology to delight and amuse, covering many of the best short stories written for children over the last 250 years.Jan Mark, herself an accomplished children's author, traces the evolution of the short story from 1749 to the 1990s. Her collection includes the work of familiar figures like Rudyard Kipling and Christina Rossetti, Walter de la Mare, and Philippa Pearce, in addition to long-forgotten tales whichstill have the power to enchant.The anthology shows that despite the long and varied history of children's writing, the ingredients of a good children's story - the magic, mystery, and enchantment - have remained remarkably constant, and can still captivate the imagination of child and parent alike.