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The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories
by Craig, Patricia
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0192142321
- ISBN 13
- 9780192142320
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0192142321 . Tight stiff clean book with name to title page and margin lines to 6 pages of the introduction; in lightly rubbed DJ ; 1.45 x 8.79 x 5.64 Inches; 522 pages; "The inadequate acknowledgement of women short story writers in standard anthologies is a cause for wonder or affront. How else, indeed, can you view it, given the riches overlooked?" So states editor Patricia Craig in her introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories, a rich,<br>wide-ranging collection that, at last, redresses this historical imbalance by bringing together forty examples of the very best women's stories--from established authors such as Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Katherine Mansfield, to such modern masters as Margaret Atwood, Alice<br>Munro, Bharati Mukherjee, and Amy Tan.<br> Here readers will find humor, passion, eccentricity, forcefulness, elan, intellectual vigor, subversion--indeed every shading of tone and mood, from ironic detachment to full-blooded engagement. Each writer has her own, perfectly realized angle of vision, whether it's the zestfulness of Angela<br>Carter, the breathtaking evocations of Willa Cather, the quirkiness of Grace Paley, or the pungency of Flannery O'Connor.<br> Breaking with tradition, editor Patricia Craig offers few stories about traditional "women's" topics. Instead, the entries in this collection range from an unforgettable tale of racism in South Africa to explorations of adultery, immigration, the importance of cultural identity, and the<br>rootlessness of American cities. Craig also includes some provocative offerings from outside the mainstream of twentieth century fiction--a ghost story by Edith Wharton, a delightful fairy tale, and several engaging historical pieces.<br> Eloquent and captivating, The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories offers a dazzling assortment of classic stories and overlooked gems that will amuse, intrigue, and challenge every lover of fine fiction. .
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22853
- Title
- The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories
- Author
- Craig, Patricia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0192142321
- ISBN 13
- 9780192142320
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- 0192142321, Classics, United States, World Literature, Literature & Fiction, Books, Women, History & Criticism, Women Writers, Contemporary
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthology; Women's Studies; Women's Studies;
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Amherst, Nova Scotia
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B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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