The Short Story in English

By David Staines and Neil Besner

This new anthology for university students in both general courses and courses devoted to the short story presents the short-story form through classic texts in the English language. From early writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and Sara Jeannette Duncan, through twentieth-century figures such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and Flannery O'Connor, to contemporary voices like Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro, The Short Story in English shows the development of a major literary form. Half of its stories are by men, half by women, and one-third of the thirty writers included are Canadian. By representing writers with two stories, the anthology permits in-depth comparisons and stylistic analysis. The Short Story in English will become an indispensable textbook.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195406834
• ISBN13: 9780195406832
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"