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In the faber book of contemporary australian short stories the novelist murray bail sets out to demonstrate the short storys special place in his countrys culture and, by implication, to challenge patrick whites celebrated condemnation of australi. It offers examples from the cook islands, fiji, papua new guinea and tonga together with work from the longer. Top 10 contemporary short stories books the guardian. In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler.
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Faber stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. The prevalence of the short story in irelands literary landscape has longrecognised roots in. Elizabeth bowen, in her 1936 introduction to the faber book of modern short stories, doesnt go any further back than maupassant and chekhov, because, in her opinion, no one else has had such a powerful effect on the forms development. In the faber book of contemporary australian short stories the novelist murray bail sets out to demonstrate the short storys special place in his countrys culture and, by implication, to challenge patrick whites celebrated condemnation of australian literature as a dreary duncoloured offspring of journalistic realism.
The faber book of contemporary stories about childhood book. In the introduction to the the granta book of the african short story, meanwhile. Extras indybest books 10 best short story collections that are the mustreads. From precious rediscoveries to genderplayful fictions, futurist fables to uncanny imaginings, here are stories by a new generation of faber authors alongside faber classics.
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