by William Trevor · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192828453
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«The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories» is the anthology of Irish short stories edited by William Trevor, published by Oxford Paperbacks in paperback.
Anthology that traces the evolution of the Irish short story from oral tradition to twentieth-century narrative. It includes forty-six pieces by authors such as Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Liam O'Flaherty and Edna O'Brien, and maps out Ireland's short fiction.
Text in English, 584 pages; the work was originally published in 1989 and this edition appeared in 1991.
Recommended for readers interested in Irish short fiction, the literary short story and classic anthologies; it can also serve as supporting reading in literature courses.
William Trevor Cox was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize, the last for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name was also mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
