Collected Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Stegner, Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014139238X ISBN 13: 9780141392387

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2013

Synopsis

A collection of 31 short stories from one of America's master storytellers. Here are tales of young love and older wisdom, of the order and consistency of the natural world and the chaos, contradictions and continuities of the human being.

About this title

About the Author:

Wallace Stegner was the author of, among other works of fiction, Remembering Laughter (1973); The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943); Joe Hill (1950); All the Little Live Things (1967, Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star (1961); Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird (1976, National Book Award); Recapitulation (1979); Crossing to Safety (1987); and Collected Stories (1990). His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954); Wolf Willow (1963); The Sound of Mountain Water (essays, 1969); The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard deVoto (1964); American Places (with Page Stegner, 1981); and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 014139238X
• ISBN 13: 9780141392387
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544