Critical survey of short fiction. British, Irish, and Commonwealth writers / editor, Charles E. May.
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- Edition
- 4th ed.
- Description
- 1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations
- data file rda
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Joseph Addison / Robert M. Otten, Emma Coburn Norris -- Martin Amis / L. Michelle Baker -- Margaret Atwood / Karen A. Kildahl, Jill Rollins, Karen F. Stein, Thomas Willard -- Jane Austen / Peter W. Graham, Leslie A. Pearl -- J.G. Ballard / R.C. Lutz -- Nicola Barker / J. Greg Matthews -- Julian Barnes / Charles E. May, L. Michelle Baker -- H.E. Bates / William Peden, Dennis Vannatta -- Max Beerbohm / James MacDonald, Lou Thompson -- David Bezmozgis / Will Smith -- Neil Bissoondath / Sheldon Goldfarb -- Algernon Blackwood / Joseph W. Hinton -- Elizabeth Bowen / James L. Green, George O'Brien -- Clare Boylan / Charles E. May -- Patrick Boyle / Valerie A. Murrenus Pilmaier -- A.S. Byatt / Charles Pullen, Charles E. May -- Barry Callaghan / Charles E. May -- Morley Callaghan / Barbara Wiedemann, Jill Rollins -- Peter Carey / Nicholas Birns -- William Carleton / Eileen A. Sullivan, George O'Brien -- Angela Carter / Brian Stableford -- Geoffrey Chaucer / Evelyn Newlyn, William Nelles -- G.K. Chesterton / Edmund J. Campion -- Agatha Christie / Jennifer L. Wyatt.
- Arthur C. Clarke / David N. Samuelson, Terry Theodore -- John Collier / Gina Macdonald -- William Congreve / Sue L. Kimball, Catherine Swanson -- Joseph Conrad / Michael Witkoski -- A.E. Coppard / Bert Bender, Lou Thompson -- Roald Dahl / Chapel Louise Petty, Karen M. Cleveland Marwick -- Rhys Davies / Martha E. Rhynes -- Walter de la Mare / Mary Rohrberger, Terry Theodore -- Charles Dickens / Peter W. Graham, Eugene S. Larson -- Gerard Donovan / Danielle A. DeFoe -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / Robert W. Millett, Karen M. Cleveland Marwick -- Lord Dunsany / Cheryl Herr, Eugene S. Larson -- Maria Edgeworth / Eileen A. Sullivan, George O'Brien -- George Eliot / Peter W. Graham, Kimberley L. Jacobs -- Anne Enright / J. Greg Matthews -- Penelope Fitzgerald / Melissa Molloy -- E.M. Forster / Sue L. Kimball, Chaman L. Sahni -- John Fowles / Carol M. Barnum, James Norman O'Neill -- Brian Friel / Charles E. May -- Mavis Gallant / Ruth Rosenberg, Kenneth W. Meadwell, Martha E. Rhynes -- Janice Galloway / J. Greg Matthews.
- John Galsworthy / Peter W. Graham, Allene Phy-Olsen -- Penelope Gilliatt / Roy Arthur Swanson -- Oliver Goldsmith / Kathy Ruth Frazier, Catherine Swanson -- Graham Greene / John F. Desmond, Karen Priest -- Robert Greene / Christopher J. Thaiss, Paula M. Miller -- Thomas Hardy / Donald F. Larsson, Lou Thompson -- John Hawkesworth / Robert M. Otten, Lou Thompson -- Aidan Higgins / J. Greg Matthews -- Desmond Hogan / J. Greg Matthews -- Janette Turner Hospital / Charles E. May, Amy Sisson -- Aldous Huxley / Norman Prinsky -- Kazuo Ishiguro / Dorothy Dodge Robbins -- W.W. Jacobs / Martha E. Rhynes -- M.R. James / Keith Neilson, Charles L.P. Silet -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala / Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman -- Samuel Johnson / James W. Garvey, Emma Coburn Norris -- Neil Jordan / Mary Hurd -- James Joyce / George O'Brien -- Anna Kavan / Mary Virginia Davis -- Claire Keegan / Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt -- James Kelman / Leon Lewis -- A.L. Kennedy / J. Greg Matthews -- Benedict Kiely / Grace Eckley, George O'Brien -- W.P. Kinsella / Michael Adams, Edmund J. Campion -- Rudyard Kipling / Eugene S. Larson.
- Hanif Kureishi / Uma Kukathas -- James Lasdun / Charles E. May -- Margaret Laurence / Mary LeDonne Cassidy -- Mary Lavin / Eileen A. Sullivan, James Sullivan, Charles E. May -- D.H. Lawrence / Alvin Sullivan -- Henry Lawson / Paul Kane, Thomas L. Erskine -- Nam Le / Katherine Orr -- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu / Keith Neilson, George O'Brien -- Doris Lessing / Mary Baron, Mary LeDonne Cassidy, William Hoffman, John L. Grigsby -- Wyndham Lewis / Gina Macdonald -- Arthur Machen / Grove Koger -- Bernard MacLaverty / Charles E. May -- Alistair MacLeod / Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman -- Sir Thomas Malory / J.R. Brink, Catherine Swanson -- David Malouf / Marcus Hammond -- Katherine Mansfield / George Soule -- Adam Mars-Jones / Bill Delaney -- Owen Marshall / Marcia B. Dinneen -- W. Somerset Maugham / Kenneth Funsten, Sherry Morton-Mollo -- Colum McCann / Earl G. Ingersoll -- Ian McEwan / Leon Lewis -- John McGahern / Charles E. May -- Rohinton Mistry / David Barratt -- George Moore / Charles Pull -- Alice Munro / Karen A. Kildahl, Kenneth W. Meadwell, Joanne McCarthy, Charles E. May.
- Edna O'Brien / Archibald E. Irwin -- Fitz-James O'Brien / Eileen A. Sullivan, Eugene S. Larson -- Frank O'Connor / Cóilín Owens, James Sullivan -- Seán O'Faoláin / James Sullivan -- Liam O'Flaherty / Grace Eckley, George O'Brien -- William Plomer / Bill Delaney -- V.S. Pritchett / Julia B. Boken -- Jean Rhys / Bryan Aubrey, Douglas Rollins / Mordecai Richler -- James MacDonald, Jill Rollins, Edmund J. Campion -- Leon Rooke / Peter Brigg -- Saki / Peter W. Graham, R.C. Lutz -- William Sansom / Julia B. Boken -- Sir Walter Scott / Mark A. Weinstein, Kimberley L. Jacobs -- Rachel Seiffert / Valerie A. Murrenus Pilmaier -- Carol Shields / Danielle A. DeFoe -- Alan Sillitoe / Stanley S. Atherton, Jerry Bradley, Will Smith -- Muriel Spark / Paula M. Miller, Grove Koger -- Sir Richard Steele / Richard H. Dammers, Kimberley L. Jacobs -- Robert Louis Stevenson / Kenneth Funsten, John W. Fiero -- Graham Swift / Charles E. May -- Elizabeth Taylor / Charles E. May -- William Makepeace Thackeray / Ruth Rosenberg, Jill Rollins -- Dylan Thomas / Ruth Rosenberg, Ann Davison Garbett.
- Colm Tóibín / Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt -- Rose Tremain / David Barratt -- William Trevor / Brian Murray, Roger Smith, Eugene S. Larson, Charles E. May -- Frank Tuohy / W.J. Stuckey, Richard Hauer Costa -- Guy Vanderhaeghe / Nicholas Birns -- John Wain / James Curry Robison, Jerry Bradley, Richard Hauer Costa -- Sylvia Townsend Warner / Bryan Aubrey, Lou Thompson -- Denton Welch / Patrick Meanor -- Fay Weldon / Harold Branam, Janet E. Gardner -- H.G. Wells / Richard Hauer Costa -- Angus Wilson / Charles E. May -- Tim Winton / Christine Ferrari -- Virginia Woolf / Norman Prinsky -- William Butler Yeats / Eileen A. Sullivan, George O'Brien -- Terms and Techniques: Short Fiction Writers / Bryan Aubrey, Charles E. May -- Bibliography: British, Irish and Commonwealth Short Fiction Writers / Charles E. May, Rebecca Kuzins -- Guide to Online Resources: British, Irish and Commonwealth Short Fiction Writers / Rebecca Kuzins -- Time Line: British, Irish and Commonwealth Short Fiction Writers / Rebecca Kuzins -- Major Awards: British, Irish and Commonwealth Short Fiction Writers -- Chronological List of British, Irish and Commonwealth Short Fiction Writers -- Categorical Index: British, Irish and Commonwealth Short Fiction Writers.
- Summary
- Provides profiles of major short-story writers throughout history and the world. British, Irish, and Commonwealth writers covered include Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Alice Munro, and Roald Dahl. New writers to this edition are David Malouf, Kazuo Ishiguro and Anne Enright.
- Description based on
- Print version record.
- Subject
- Short story.
- Short story -- Bio-bibliography.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
- Short story.
- Genre/Form
- Bio-bibliography.
- Added Author
- May, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1941-
- Added Title
- British, Irish, and Commonwealth writers
- Other Form:
- Print version: Critical survey of short fiction. British, Irish, and Commonwealth writers. 4th ed. Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, ©2012 9781587657955 (OCoLC)794672143
- ISBN
- 9781587658068 (electronic bk.)
- 1587658062 (electronic bk.)