Download or read book The Oxford Book of English Short Stories written by A. S. Byatt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Book of English Short Stories celebrates the excellences of the English short story. The thirty-seven stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by authors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject-matter.