by Susan Hill · Pearson Schools · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582017283
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«The Albatross and Other Stories» is a collection of short stories by Susan Hill, published by Pearson Schools in paperback (228 pages, in English).
Collection set in a fishing village in East Anglia. The title story follows Duncan Pike, a young man with intellectual disability dominated by his mother; the other stories share that rural, melancholic setting, with loss and incomprehension as central themes.
Part of the Longman Study Texts series, within the Modern Women Writers collection, with an introduction by Heather Booley.
Intended for GCSE English literature students and for adults preparing for English exams.
Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, which has been adapted for stage and screen, The Mist in the Mirror, and I'm the King of the Castle, for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She also won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1972 for The Bird of Night, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
