The Oxford book of travel stories / edited by Patricia Craig.
33 short stories and novel excerpts by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Edith Wharton, Ring Lardner, Rebecca West, Flannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, Anita Desai, Alice Adams, Raymond Carver, and others.
Item details
- ISBN: 0192142534
- ISBN: 9780192142535
- Physical Description: xvi, 441 p. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1996.
Contents / Notes
Formatted Contents Note: | The holly-tree / Charles Dickens -- The lazy tour of two idle apprentices / Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins -- A ride across Palestine / Anthony Trollope -- From Miltzow to Lauterbach / Elizabeth Von Arnim -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- Human habitation / Elizabeth Bowen -- Cruise / Evelyn Waugh -- Travelogue / Ring Lardner -- Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to number-- / F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald -- Local colour / William Plomer -- Gliding gulls and going people / William Sansom -- Deliverance / Rebecca West -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Request stop / Dan Jacobson -- Big trip to Europe / Jack Kerouac -- Brimmer / John Cheever -- A journey to the seven streams / Benedict Kiely -- Scholar and Gypsy / Anita Desai -- The lady from Guatemala / V.S. Pritchett -- Loser wins / Paul Theroux -- Death in Jerusalem / William Trevor -- Siegfried on the Rhine / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- The faithful / Elizabeth Hardwick -- The bridge at Arta / J.I.M. Stewart -- Greyhound people / Alice Adams -- The compartment / Raymond Carver -- A long night at Abu Simbel / Penelope Lively -- The man who blew away / Beryl Bainbridge -- Chinese funeral / Jane Gardam -- The Kyogle line / David Malouf -- Cuckoo clock / Diane Johnson -- Somewhere else / Rachel Ingalls -- Questions of travel / Elizabeth Bishop. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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Subject: | Travelers > Fiction. Short stories, English Short stories, American. Fictie. Reizen. Reisverhalen. Reizigers. |
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33 short stories and novel excerpts by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Edith Wharton, Ring Lardner, Rebecca West, Flannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, Anita Desai, Alice Adams, Raymond Carver, and others.