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Lädt ... The Oxford Book of Adventure Storiesvon Joseph Bristow (Herausgeber)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. O generally like adventure stories, but I found this selection very unsatisfying overall, though some individual pieces were good. Twain's quasi-autobiographical piece is more self-deprecating humor than adventure, and some of the others are too downbeat for my tastes, including Tigre and Aepyornis Island. and The Grove of Ashtaroth (and usually I like Buchan, but this is more occult than adventure, and sad too) and Octopussy.. If you named the authors, I would like most of them but not these stories. ( ) Joseph Bristow brings together twenty-three riveting tales, penned by such masters as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Zane Gray, but with notable contributions from such unexpected sources as Margaret Atwood, Tim O'Brien, and Daphne Du Maurier. Here readers will find bravery and boldness in settings that range from desert islands to the Java Sea, from war-torn Europe to deepest Africa, and from India to the Canadian wastes. Bristow offers many classic works of adventure, such as Edgar Allan Poe's MS Found in a Bottle, Mark Twain's The Private History of a Campaign that Failed, and Joseph Conrad's The Lagoon. Along side these, he also includes Margaret Atwood's offbeat Death by Landscape and Tim O'Brien's On the Rainy River (where the adventure lies in dodging the draft as opposed to going to war). Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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`The love of adventure, and of mystery, and of a good fight lingers in the minds of men and women.' Thus wrote Andrew Lang in 1887, and the enduring popularity of a genre that was in its heyday at the turn of the century shows no sign of waning.This anthology brings together 23 of the best adventure stories from the zenith of Empire to our present, fragmented, post-colonial world. Pitched against the unknown, against the forces of nature and against man's own treachery, the protagonists' courage and heroism are put to the test. Insettings that range from desert islands to the Java Sea, from war-torn Europe to deepest Africa, heroes battle not only for self-preservation but in defence of country and culture. As the old certainties faded with the loss of empire, so moral complexity and literary sophistication grew, and thevery notion of `adventure' is challenged in fine stories by Paul Bowles, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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