The Penguin Book Of Dutch Short Stories

Author : Joost Zwagerman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141395737
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories written by Joost Zwagerman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS 'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent book' Jonathan Gibbs, Minor Literatures 'We were kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic. Except for Bavink, who went crazy' A husband forms gruesome plans for his new fridge; a government employee has a haunting experience on his commute home; prisoners serve as entertainment for wealthy party guests; an army officer suffers a monstrous tropical illness. These short stories contain some of the most groundbreaking and innovative writing in Dutch literature from 1915 to the present day, with most pieces appearing here in English for the first time. Blending unforgettable snapshots of the realities of everyday life with surrealism, fantasy and subversion, this collection shows Dutch writing to be an integral part of world literary history. Joost Zwagerman (1963-2015) was a novelist, poet, essayist and editor of several anthologies. He started his career as a writer with bestselling novels, describing the atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s, such as Gimmick!(1988) and False Light (1991). In later years, he concentrated on writing essays - notably on pop culture and visual arts - and poetry. Suicide was the theme of the novel Six Stars (2002). He took his own life just after having published a new collection of essays on art, The Museum of Light.

Author : Daniel Halpern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of International Short Stories written by Daniel Halpern and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Halpern
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of International Short Stories written by Daniel Halpern and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1989 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Cochrane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of American Short Stories written by James Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Dolley
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241952859
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of English Short Stories written by Christopher Dolley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age of the English short story lies from its first wide acceptance in the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth, a period when there were a great many outlets in Britain for shorter fictions. The Penguin Book of English Short Stories celebrates this period through some of the most widely known writers of the time. Though many of the chosen authors are more generally known for their novels, here they provide some perfect examples of much shorter work. Each of these concise, evocative, subtle and satisfying stories is a little jewel, providing a small window into another world.

Author : Philip Hensher
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141979291
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2 written by Philip Hensher and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected: these two extraordinary volumes contain the limitless possibilities of the British short story. This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. The most famous authors are here, and many others, including some magnificent stories never republished since their first appearance in magazines and periodicals. The Penguin Book of the British Short Story has a permanent authority, and will be reached for year in and year out. This volume takes the story from the 1920s to the present day. Edited and with an introduction by Philip Hensher, the award-winning novelist, critic and journalist.

Author : Benedict Kiely
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories written by Benedict Kiely and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1981 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercurial, intoxicating, witty or sad, the Irish short story is as full of charm (and blarney) as the people themselves.This is a selection of thirty-eight stories covering many generations and many moods of Irish writing. It begins with an exquisite love story, an ancient saga retold by Lady Gregory; continues with George Moore and the birth of the modern short story at the turn of the century; includes such preeminent writers as James Joyce, Sean O'Faolain, Mary Lavin and Liam O'Flaherty, whose work re-established the tradition of the short story; and concludes with the newer but no less practised exponents of the art - Elizabeth Bowen, William Trevor and Edna O'Brien.

Author : Philip Hensher
Publisher : Penguin Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780141986210
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story written by Philip Hensher and published by Penguin Books Limited. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His introduction is as enriching as anything that has been published this year' Sunday Times A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted a host of remarkable, subversive, entertaining and innovative writers. Philip Hensher, following the success of his definitive Penguin Book of British Short Stories, has scoured a vast trove of material and chosen thirty great stories for this new volume of works written between 1997 and the present day. Includes short stories by A.L. Kennedy, Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jackie Kay, Graham Swift, Jane Gardam, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman, Martin Amis, China Miéville, Peter Hobbs, Thomas Morris, David Rose, David Szalay, Irvine Welsh, Lucy Caldwell, Rose Tremain, Helen Oyeyemi, Leone Ross, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Will Self, Gerard Woodward, James Kelman, Lucy Wood, Hilary Mantel, Eley Williams, Sarah Hall, Mark Haddon and Helen Dunmore.

Author : Henry Eliot
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241441617
Total Pages : 2282 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Modern Classics Book written by Henry Eliot and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 2282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.

Author : Helen Constantine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192529056
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amsterdam Tales written by Helen Constantine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs and anecdotes centring on Amsterdam from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. His selection offers a rare insight into the history and culture of the city. The subjects range from Rembrandt to the persecution of the Jews in World War 2, from barricades in a working-class district during the Depression to a writer's unhealthy obsession with a massage parlour. These eighteen newly-translated tales give the reader, and the traveller, a tantalizing glimpse of the Amsterdam that lies beyond the tourist guidebooks.