The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories

by Michael Wilding and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories brings together forty-nine outstanding tales, capturing the expansiveness of imagination, the prolific creativity, and the richness of sympathy of Australia's great literary tradition.
The volume spans more than 120 years of Australian fiction and it runs the gamut from traditional realistic works to modern experiments with language and form. Readers will discover the ways in which the cosmopolitan,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019553610X
• ISBN13: 9780195536102
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"