The Persephone Book of Short Stories
by Edith Wharton, E.M. Delafield, Katherine Mansfield, Shirley Jackson, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Spencer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Susan Glaspell, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Penelope Fitzgerald, Georgina Hammick, Diana Athill, Malachi Whitaker, Elizabeth Berridge, Irène Némirovsky, Mollie Panter-Downes, Phyllis Bentley, Penelope Mortimer, Pauline Smith, Kay Boyle, Dorothy Whipple, Helen R. Hull, Margaret Bonham, Frances Towers, Norah Hoult, Angelica Gibbs, Diana Gardner, Betty Miller
- Tytuł oryginalny
- Atomic Habits
- Język oryginału
- Angielski
- Liczba stron
- 320
- Wydawnictwo
- Avery
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Most of these stories focus on the small, quiet or unspoken intricacies of human relationships rather than grand dramas. The use of metaphor is delicate and subtle; often the women are strong and capable and the men less so; shallow and selfish motives are exposed.The dates of these stories range from 1909 to 1986 and there are thirty in all. The ten stories which are already in print in Persephone editions of their work are by Katherine Mansfield, Irène Némirovsky, Mollie Panter-Downes (twice), Elizabeth Berridge, Dorothy Whipple, Frances Towers, Margaret Bonham, Diana Gardner and Diana Athill. The ten stories which have already been published in the Quarterly and Biannually are by EM Delafield; Dorothy Parker; Dorothy Whipple; Edith Wharton; Phyllis Bentley; Dorothy Canfield Fisher; Norah Hoult; Angelica Gibbs; Penelope Mortimer; and Georgina Hammick. And lastly the ten stories which are new are by Susan Glaspell, Pauline Smith, Malachi Whitaker, Betty Miller, Helen Hull, Kay Boyle, Shirley Jackson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Spencer and Penelope Fitzgerald.