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The Oxford book of travel stories / edited by Patricia Craig.
Van Pelt Library PR1309.T73 O96 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel--Fiction.
- Travel.
- Travelers--Fiction.
- Travelers.
- Short stories, English.
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories, English.
- Short stories, American.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 441 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Travel stories
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0192142534
- OCLC:
- 33101587
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