The Collected Stories
The definitive short story collection by the Nobel Laureate and master of the formThese diverse, psychologically rich, and morally profound stories explore the consequences of war on individuals and on an entire culture. The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll provides readers with the only...
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The definitive short story collection by the Nobel Laureate and master of the formThese diverse, psychologically rich, and morally profound stories explore the consequences of war on individuals and on an entire culture. The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll provides readers with the only comprehensive collection by this master of the short-story form.Includes all the stories from Böll’s The Mad Dog, Eighteen Short Stories, The Casualty, and The Stories of Heinrich Böll. A Nobel Laureate, Böll was considered a master 20th century literature, and The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll contains some of his finest work.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781612190020 (1612190022)
ASIN: 1612190022
Publish date: December 27th 2011
Publisher: Melville House
Pages no: 976
Edition language: English
A great collection of Heinrich Böll's work, though with so many stories and novellas, it's hard to comment on them here. His writing style is appealing, mostly clear and to the point, but with enough detail to paint a scene. The stories focusing on the war and just after seemed best to me; those t...