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Edition

4th ed.

Description

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

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PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 23, 2012).

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Aichinger, Ilse -- Alarcon, Pedro Antonio de -- Andersen, Hans Christian -- Balzac, Honore de -- Beckett, Samuel -- Boccaccio, Giovanni -- Boll, Heinrich -- Borowski, Tadeusz -- Brecht, Bertolt -- Buzzati, Dino -- Calvino, Italo -- Camus, Albert -- Capek, Karel -- Cervantes, Miguel de -- Chretien de Troyes -- Colette -- Dante -- Daudet, Alphonse -- Diderot, Denis -- Dinesen, Isak -- Flaubert, Gustave -- France, Anatole -- Gautier, Theophile -- von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang -- Grimm, Brothers -- Hemon, Aleksandar -- Hesse, Hermann -- Hildesheimer, Wolfgang -- Hoffmann, E.T.A. -- Homer -- Kafka, Franz -- Kis, Danilo -- Kleist, Heinrich von -- Kundera, Milan -- Lagerkvist, Par -- Landolfi, Tommaso -- Le Clezio, J.M.G. -- Lem, Stanislaw -- Lind, Jakov -- Mann, Thomas -- Marie de France -- Maupassant, Guy de -- Meckel, Christoph -- Merimee, Prosper -- Moravia, Alberto -- Nerval, Gerard de -- Nin, Anais -- Ovid -- Pardo Bazan, Emilia -- Pavese, Cesare -- Peretz, Isaac Leib -- Petronius -- Pirandello, Luigi -- Robbe-Grillet, Alain -- Sartre, Jean-Paul -- Schulz, Bruno -- Singer, Isaac Bashevis -- Svevo, Italo -- Tabucchi, Antonio -- Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de -- Verga, Giovanni -- Vergil -- Voltaire -- Walser, Robert -- Wolf, Christa -- Zola, Emile -- Terms and techniques -- Bibliography -- Guide to online resources -- Timeline -- Major awards -- Chronological list of writers -- Categorical index.

Summary

Discusses major writers from many different regions of Europe. The essays include such writers as Franz Kafka, Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Homer, Miguel de Cervantes, Dante, and Anais Nin.

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

European writers

Other Form:

Critical survey of short fiction. European writers. 4th ed. Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, ©2012 9781587657986 (OCoLC)794776801

ISBN

9781587658075 (electronic bk.)

1587658070 (electronic bk.)