Martin Scofield Boeken

This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe, via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor.

Originally published 200 years ago, Lyrical Ballads is published here as it was compiled by Wordsworth and Coleridge. Accepted as one of the most influential books of English poetry, it includes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey.