Short Novels of the Masters - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088184487X ISBN 13: 9780881844870

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1989

Synopsis

Includes stories by Melville, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Tolstoy, James, Chekhov, Mann, Joyce, Kafka, and Lawrence

About this title

From Library Journal:

This remarkable collection assembles ten works by 19th- and 20th-century literary gods of America, Europe, and the UK: Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, Feodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground, Gustave Flaubert's A Simple Heart, Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Iv n Il"ch, Henry James's The Aspern Papers, Anton Chekov's Ward No. 6, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, James Joyce's The Dead, Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, and D.H. Lawrence's The Fox. This also includes a lengthy introduction by editor and literary scholar Neider.
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Review:

A splendid anthology of short masterpieces of fiction. (The New Yorker)

[Neider] is always interesting, and the reader will find his ideas are stimulating. (Saturday Review Of Literature)

An absorbing collection for both students and general readers. (The New York Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 088184487X
• ISBN 13: 9780881844870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 643
• Editor: Neider Charles