The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914
The quarter century or so before the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain. Fuelled by a large new magazine readership and vigorous competition to acquire new stories, these years were ones where the normal rule-of-thumb (novels sell, short stories don't) was inverted.This was the era of Sherlock Holmes, of Kipling's most famous stories, of Katherine Mansfield and Joyce's Dubliners. Some of the greatest writers of the period - particularly Conrad and James - found that the effort that went into their shorter works was more rewarded during their lifetimes than their…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-241-43431-4
- EAN: 9780241434314
- Produktnummer: 34778512
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 640 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm
- Abbildungen: B-format paperback
Über den Autor
Philip Hensher is the editor of The Penguin Book of the British Short Story (two volumes) and of The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story. His most recent novel is A Small Revolution in Germany.
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