Short Story Writers And Short Stories (Bloom's 20th Anniversary)

A collection of critical writings about some of the greatest short story writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ivan Turgenev, Jack London, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest Hemingway, and John Updike. Discusses Puskin, Hawthorne, Hans Christian Andersen, Poe, Gogol, Turgenev, Melville, Carroll, Twain, Henry James, de Maupassant, Conrad, Chekhov, O. Henry, Mann, London, Sherwood Anderson, Crane, Joyce, Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Anne Porter, Babel, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Borges, Steinbeck, Welty, Cheever, Cortazar, Shirley Jackson, Salinger, Calvino, Flannery O'Connor, Ozick, Updike and Carver Read Bloom's considerations on those writers who shaped the art of the short story; Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, and Sherwood Anderson to name a few. Ages 16+.