The Story
100 Great Short Stories Written by Women
1st Edition
Published on 22. August 2013
816 pages
978-1-78185-360-3 (ISBN)
Description
Witty, heartbreaking, shocking, satirical: the short story can excite or sadden, entice or repulse. The one thing it can never be is dull. Now Victoria Hislop, passionate ambassador for the art of the short story, has collected 100 stories from her favourite women writers into one volume.
Here are Man Booker Prize winners and Nobel Laureates, well-known feminists and famous wits, national treasures and rising stars. All handpicked by one of the nation's best-loved novelists, there's a story for every mood, mind-set and moment in life.
Featuring an all star cast of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Penelope Fitzgerald, Miranda July, Doris Lessing, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Dorothy Parker and Virginia Woolf, THE STORY is the biggest and most beautiful collection of women's short fiction in print today.
Here are Man Booker Prize winners and Nobel Laureates, well-known feminists and famous wits, national treasures and rising stars. All handpicked by one of the nation's best-loved novelists, there's a story for every mood, mind-set and moment in life.
Featuring an all star cast of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Penelope Fitzgerald, Miranda July, Doris Lessing, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Dorothy Parker and Virginia Woolf, THE STORY is the biggest and most beautiful collection of women's short fiction in print today.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78185-360-3 (9781781853603)
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Victoria Hislop read English at Oxford. Her first novel, THE ISLAND, was Number One for eight consecutive weeks and has sold over two million copies worldwide. Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- LOVE
- LOSS
- THE LIVES OF WOMEN
- LOVE
- A Married Man's Story
- A Telephone Call
- A Man and Two Women
- How I Finally Lost My Heart
- Faithful Lovers
- Master
- The Man from Mars
- The Bloody Chamber
- 1944
- The Lover
- Rue de Lille
- Words
- Revenge
- Choirmaster
- Ilse's House
- In the Shadow
- The Watch Trick
- Atlantic Crossing
- My Son the Hero
- The Artist
- Kenny
- Reach
- Field Study
- Love in the Marketplace
- Mother Tongue
- The Shared Patio
- The Thing Around Your Neck
- The Redemption of Galen Pike
- The Heart of Denis Noble
- The Lost Seed
- The Turtle
- Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes
- The Gift
- Millie and Bird
- LOSS
- The Canary
- A Walk in the Woods
- Sentiment
- The Lottery
- The Life You Save May Be Your Own
- The Blush
- A Visit
- Obsessional
- The First Year of My Life
- Indignities
- The Pill-Box
- Miles City, Montana
- Fragility
- The Merry Widow
- The I of It
- The First Time
- Inside Information
- Desideratus
- Agnes of Iowa
- Curved is the Line of Beauty
- Father, Father
- Renaissance
- After a Life
- Sorry?
- Up at a Villa
- Plunder
- Aunt Telephone
- Vanitas
- Gravel
- The Eye
- Before He Left the Family
- Diving Belles
- THE LIVES OF WOMEN
- Consequences
- A Society
- Generous Pieces
- The Waltz
- Through the Tunnel
- The Axe
- Betty
- A World of Her Own
- Sale
- Mischief
- Change of Face
- A Weight Problem
- The Prescription
- How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy.
- Corruption
- A Real Doll
- Yours Truly
- (She Owns) Every Thing
- Waiting Room (The First)
- Telegony I: Going into a Dark House
- Fat People
- G-String
- Wesley: Blisters
- Emerald City
- The Snobs
- Third Floor Rising
- The Thing in the Forest
- Good People
- The Child
- Story of My Life
- The Man Across the River
- Ahead of the Pack
- To Brixton Beach
- About this Book
- Also by Victoria Hislop
- About Victoria Hislop
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
- Extended Copyright
