Rudolph Baumbach's Tales
Rudolph Baumbach's Tales

Author: Rudolph Baumbrach

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2007-09-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 143448386X

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This collection of short tales is taken from Baumbach's two slender volumes of prose, "Sommer-Marchen" and "Erzahlungen und Marchen," which were very popular in Germany in the late 19th century. Many of his works stray into fantasy and are remarkable for their grace and simplicity of style.

The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

Author: Blanche H. Gelfant

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2004-04-21

Total Pages: 677

ISBN-13: 0231504950

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Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.