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The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
by: Malcolm Bradbury

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.0108
EAN: 9780140063066
ISBN: 0140063064
Label: Penguin Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: February 25, 1988
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Studio: Penguin Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 4167

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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Sampling of Modernism
In the introduction, the editor, Malcom Bradbury, sets out his intention in producing this collection: one was to 'display...the achievement of some the best work produced by the strongest of...recent Britsh authors'; and the other, what Bradbury claims to be a more difficult task, to be 'broadly representative, so that the book might give not only a reasonable idea of the variety, but also the general trends and directions that have been taken by British fiction in the years since 1945'.

Bradbury succeeds in both attempts. This is not paritcularly surprising since this is Bradbury's territory. The collection contains works by some of the biggest names in British Literature: William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene, ... Read More:

 



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