Sixteen Short Novels
Publisher: E. P. Dutton
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1067
ISBN-13: 9780525243700
Copyright date: 1985
Subjects: Fiction / General
Description: The short novel according to Wilfrid Sheed "is a form which the greatest masters find essential for certain effects." The masters are here in abundance, from Dos- toevsky to Faulkner, Chekhov to Fowles, Mark Twain to Philip Roth. In his perceptive critical in- troduction, Mr. Sheed explains why these stories had to be exactly this length and no longer, and what part they played in their au- thors' careers. Presenting a splen- did group of writers at their best, this volume perfectly illustrates Mr. Sheed's bravura defense of a literary form that offers "such drama as can be taken at one sit- ting—a scale that literature can hardly afford to forfeit."
Table of contents: title: Andrea - John O'Hara; title: The Old Maid - Edith Wharton; title: Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck; title: Mario and the Magician - Thomas Mann; title: Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain; title: Ward No. 6 - Anton Chekhov; title: Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky; title: The Fall - Albert Camus; title: Old Man - William Faulkner; title: Youth - Joseph Conrad; title: The Lesson of the Master - Henry James; title: My Mortal Enemy - Willa Cather; title: The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth; title: The Ebony Tower - John Fowles; title: Catholics - Brian Moore; title: The Blacking Factory - Wilfrid Sheed