《The Penguin Book of American Short Stories》是Penguin出版的圖書，作者是Cochrane, James
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780140029192
- 作者：Cochrane, James
- 出版社：Penguin
- 出版時間：1973年5月27日
- 頁數：432
- 定價：GBP 12.99
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
This collection offers twenty-one stories from America, a nation which has always been particularly at home with this form, and which has produced many of its masters. Some of the stories included - those by Poe, James and Hemingway for example - are already widely known. Some will be less familiar to the English reader. Ranging from Washington Irving to John Updike, via Ambros...(展開全部) This collection offers twenty-one stories from America, a nation which has always been particularly at home with this form, and which has produced many of its masters. Some of the stories included - those by Poe, James and Hemingway for example - are already widely known. Some will be less familiar to the English reader. Ranging from Washington Irving to John Updike, via Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather and Bernard Malamud, this is an excellent and entertaining introduction to the rich diversity of pleasures that the best American short stories can offer.
