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Alice Munro
A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant…
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Includes stories that focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface.
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From her ancestors’ view from Edinburgh’s Castle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents’ thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves fact…
Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes…
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and…
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Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro’s career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written This first-ever selection of Alice…
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This first-ever selection of Alice Munro’s stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the fa ade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves…
A collection of 14 short stories by Canadian Nobel prize winning author- Alice Munro. Vietnamese translation by Nguyen Duc Tung. In Vietnamese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by…
Li-Ping Geng
The book studies Alice Munro's inheritance of and contribution to Realism from the perspective of a Chinese scholar.
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Featuring an early collection of stories, this book presents the works of a well known fiction writer.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Previously published as ‘The Beggar Maid’ Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and…
Alice Munro’s territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these tales she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the…
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A collection of 11 stories, in which women make discoveries about love, men, relationships, families and life in their contemporary Canadian small town.
Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, these dazzling stories reveal the secrets of unconventional women…
Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro’s career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written.
Covering the second half of…
Ailsa Cox
Drawing on Bakhtinian theory, Ailsa Cox looks at ways in which Munro develops the short story’s affinity with the present moment to suggest a fluid and ever-changing reality.
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Brenda Pfaus
In Alice Munro, Brenda Pfaus provides a unique and intriguing look at one of Canada’s greatest living writers.
Dr Indra Singh
This book is systematized and a thorough study in critical terms, a range of Alice Munro’s short stories as an expression of my conviction that the imaginative, fictional sphere in…
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Coral Ann Howells
This study of the work of Alice Munro explores the appeal of her fictions of small-town Canada with their precise attention to social surfaces and their fascination with local gossip…
Catherine Sheldrick Ross
Profiling one of the world’s finest contemporary short story writers, this biography charts Alice Munro’s development as both a wife and mother and a serious writer. Exploring her ability to…
Catherine S. Ross
This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, this book explores new understandings…
Professor Robert Thacker
Focusing on Alice Munro's last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the emergence and the difference of her…
I. Duncan
Among the first critical works on Alice Munro’s writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through examining Munro’s narrative art…
JoAnn McCaig
Collections of authors’ manuscripts and correspondence have traditionally been used in ways that further illuminate the published text. JoAnn McCaig sets out to show how archival materials can also provide…
Brad Hooper
Here, Brad Hooper takes readers through her fiction, work by work, discussing the themes, forms, techniques, and styles she employs to make her work come alive. Munro has founded her…
Vanessa Castiglione
The days when sex and sexuality were regarded as being something shameful or offensive and therefore were hidden behind social denial are over. While the term ‘sex’ usually only refers…
Alice Munro has devoted her entire career to the short story form in her fourteen collections, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature as master of the contemporary short story…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Alice Munro’s Meneseteung, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Alice Munro’s Runaway, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro’s fiction. Part Three consists of an essay on didactic aspects of Munro’s fiction and of several interviews with…
The collection illustrates how Munro’s short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary studies, including affect studies, ethical criticism, age studies, disability studies, animal studies, and posthumanism.
The book studies Alice Munro’s inheritance of and contribution to Realism from the perspective of a Chinese scholar.
Robert Thacker
Emblem edition with new chapter published 2011 – verso.
Offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Featuring directive interleaved commentaries addressing chronology and contexts, this collection provides a selection of essays and reviews…
In this collection, Alice Munro takes mainly the lives of women, and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure…
Captivating readers with astounding insights into humanity, Alice Munro delivers some of her finest prose in this stunning collection of short stories. Unabridged. 8 CDs.
Traditional Chinese edition of The Love of A Good Woman by Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc…
On a clear day, you could see ‘America’ from Edinburgh’s Castle Rock - or so said Alice Munro’s great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had drink taken. This is the story…
Con la mirada profunda y sutil que tanto la caracteriza, Alice Munro nos habla sobre el amor, la traicion, el pasado y la experiencia del tiempo.
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A collection of eight stories explores such themes as the complexities of love, the unexpected implications of passion, and the strange, frequently whimsical desires of the human heart.
In the powerful, haunting stories of Munro’s new collection, men and women, in the midst of contemporary quandaries and crises, recall the long-buried yearnings, dreams, and hard choices that have…
Originally published as: Who do you think you are? 1978.
The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken- the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout…
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey…
