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May 12, 2009
Martin
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anthologies are always interesting to read. they can introduce you to writers you've heard of but never gotten around to, they can introduce you to writers you've never encountered before, and they can show you new sides of writers whose works you are familiar with.
such is the case with this anthology. usual suspects like hemingway, faulkner, fitzgerald, updike, cheever, borges, marquez, kundera, nabokov, greene and capote, are cheek by jowl with authors i was less familiar with (fo More...
such is the case with this anthology. usual suspects like hemingway, faulkner, fitzgerald, updike, cheever, borges, marquez, kundera, nabokov, greene and capote, are cheek by jowl with authors i was less familiar with (fo More...
Sep 25, 2009
Rodney
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The best collection ever. Some 20 years ago I read a story a day at lunch and I was never disappointed. Very comprehensive, immensely enjoyable and educational in the best sense. The key word is "world"; it goes for a global outreach, although as in most such things it's heavily predicated toward the west.
Each story in introduced with a few smart paragraphs from Fadiman. It introduced me for the first time to William Trevor, whom Fadiman called the best English writer alive More...
Each story in introduced with a few smart paragraphs from Fadiman. It introduced me for the first time to William Trevor, whom Fadiman called the best English writer alive More...
Apr 21, 2008
Peter
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Kafka, Faulkner, Greene, Capote... around 60 authors in all... a very representative collection...
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