The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories [antikvár]

PENGUIN BOOKS THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MODERN BRITISH SHORT STORIES Malcolm Bradbury is a novelist, critic, television dramatist, and Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. His novels include Eating People Is Wrong (1959), Stepping Westward (1965), The History Man (1975, Royal Society of Literature Award), Rates of Exchange (1983, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Why Come to Slaka? (1986), Cuts (1987) and Doctor Criminale (1992) forthcoming in Penguin. He is alsó author of Unsent Letters, My Strange Questfor Mensonge and other works of humour. Critical books include The Modern American Növel (1984, rev. ed. 1992), No, Not Bloomsbury (1987)* The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (Penguin 1988) and From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature (1991). He has alsó edited Modernism (with James McFarlane, Penguin 1991)- His television series include adaptations of Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue and Kingsley Amis's The Green Man. His originál series include The Gravy Train and The Gravy Train Goes East, which featured the country of Slaka. He alsó teaches creative writing, and was awarded the CBE in 1991.