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Short Story Masterpieces af Robert Penn…
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Short Story Masterpieces (original 1954; udgave 1954)

af Robert Penn Warren (Redaktør), Albert Erskine

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Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time. A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D. H. Lawrence Barn Burning by William Faulkner The Sojourner by Carson McCullers The Open Window by Saki Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter The Boarding House by James Joyce Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty . . . and twenty-five more of the century's best stories!… (mere)
Medlem:MartyDalton
Titel:Short Story Masterpieces
Forfattere:Robert Penn Warren
Andre forfattere:Albert Erskine
Info:Dell (1954), Mass Market Paperback, 528 pages
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek
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Short Story Masterpieces af Robert Penn Warren (Editor) (1954)

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I guess just looking at the names of the authors on the cover I thought this would be one stunning short story collection. I can’t really say that is was, but it was good. None of the stories were terrible, a couple were kind of weak, but most were solidly good, and a couple were great. Almost all of them would be in the 3-4 star range for me. ( )
  bongo_x | Apr 6, 2013 |
In 1975 I left home for the first time with a new mechanical engineering degree and moved to a small town in Alabama to work at a nuclear plant that was then under construction. Moving from the big city to a small southern town was a huge culture shock, and I was very lonely. There was a small bookstore on the town square where I went one day and bought this book. The first story I read was Carson McCullers' "The Sojourner." I was already depressed and lonely, and this story shattered me. I put the book away, and in nine months had quit my job and moved back home. It has taken me 36 years to finally finish reading this book. It was worth the wait. These are by-and-large brilliant examples of the form by some of the preeminent writers of the first half of the 20th century. Every story has a quality that recommends it, but I find myself most often telling people about "The Open Window" by H.H. Munro. I think though that F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" has the most delicious writing. Here is my favorite quote. "He knew the sort of men they were-the men who when he first went to college had entered from the great prep schools with graceful clothes and the deep tan of healthy summers. He had seen that, in one sense, he was better than these men. He was newer and stronger. Yet in acknowledging in himself that he wished his children to be like them he was admitting that he was but the rough, strong stuff from which they eternally sprang." Gives you goosebumps, huh?-David ( )
1 stem Superdave08 | Aug 9, 2012 |
The title does not lie. An excellent collection of short stories. ( )
  Borg-mx5 | Apr 15, 2010 |
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Forfatter navnRolleHvilken slags forfatterVærk?Status
Warren, Robert PennRedaktørprimær forfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Erskine, AlbertRedaktørhovedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Aiken, ConradBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Algren, NelsonBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Anderson, SherwoodBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Cheever, JohnBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Collier, JohnBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Conrad, JosephBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Coppard, A.E.Bidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Crane, StephenBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Davis, H.L.Bidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Faulkner, WilliamBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Fitzgerald, F. ScottBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Hemingway, ErnestBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
James, HenryBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Joyce, JamesBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Lardner, RingBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Lawrence, D.H.Bidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Lewis, SinclairBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Mansfield, KatherineBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Maugham, W. SomersetBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
McCarthy, MaryBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
McCullers, CarsonBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
O'Connor, FrankBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
O'Faoláin, SeánBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Parsons, ElizabethBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Porter, Katherine AnneBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Powers, J. F.Bidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
SakiBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Salinger, J. D.Bidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Shaw, IrwinBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Stafford, JeanBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Steinbeck, JohnBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Taylor, ElizabethBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Taylor, PeterBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Thurber, JamesBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Welty, EudoraBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
Williams, William CarlosBidragydermedforfatteralle udgaverbekræftet
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Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time. A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D. H. Lawrence Barn Burning by William Faulkner The Sojourner by Carson McCullers The Open Window by Saki Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter The Boarding House by James Joyce Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty . . . and twenty-five more of the century's best stories!

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