num_pages: 464
description: Travel--long associated with marvels and adventure, excitement and mystery--has always proved an irresistible literary subject. Now, in The Oxford Book of Travel Stories , Patricia Craig brings together thirty-two fascinating travel stories, each one illustrating in its own way what travel hasto do with stimulus, enrichment, and a sense of achievement.Here is some of the best short fiction representing the most exhilarating subjects from writers as diverse as Ring Lardner, Anthony Trollope, Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, John Updike, David Malouf, Rebecca West, Rachel Ingalls, Evelyn Waugh, Alice Adams, John Cheever, andRaymond Carver. From Jack Kerouac's Big Trip to Europe , of 1960, which encapsulates the late 1950s fecklessness and the soft-drug related styles of indolence abroad to F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's Show Mr. and Mrs. F to Number , a mood-piece about exotic hotel life in the 1920s, to FlanneryO'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find , a high-spirited, productively unsettling jaunt, The Oxford Book of Travel Stories brilliantly encompasses the travel story genre.
language: English
title: The Oxford Book of Travel Stories
titlecomplete: The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (Oxford Books of Prose)
genres: Travel
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Oxford University Press