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Great English Short Stories
Selected and Introduced by Christopher Isherwood
416 pages
Copyright 1957
"Love, loneliness, adventure, crime, humor, and ghosts, all the ingredients of great short stories appear in this collection. Here are gems from the writing of Maugham, Conrad, Mnsfield, Kipling, Plomer, Wells, Pritchett, Chesterton, Forester, Lawrence, Graves, Mayne, and Moore - men and women who have brought the art of the English shrot story to a brilliant peak. With a general Foreword and individual introductions to each of the thirteen stories, by Christopher Isherwood, thsi volume is guaranteed to provide pleasure when it is read for instruction, instruction when it is read for pleasure." - from the first page of the book
Contents:
Foreward - Christopher Isherwood
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
The Invisible Man - G. K. Chesterton
Albert Nobbs - George Moore
The Magic Shop - H. G. Wells
The Story of the Siren - E. M. Forester
Mary Postgate - Rudyard Kipling
The Blind Man - D. H. Lawrence
Marriage a la Mode - Katherine Mansfield
The Man of the House - Ethel Colburn Mayne
The Shout - Robert Graves
The Book-Bag - W. Somerset Maugham
Sense of Humour - V. S. Pritchett
The Child of Queen Victoria - William Plomer
Selected and Introduced by Christopher Isherwood
416 pages
Copyright 1957
"Love, loneliness, adventure, crime, humor, and ghosts, all the ingredients of great short stories appear in this collection. Here are gems from the writing of Maugham, Conrad, Mnsfield, Kipling, Plomer, Wells, Pritchett, Chesterton, Forester, Lawrence, Graves, Mayne, and Moore - men and women who have brought the art of the English shrot story to a brilliant peak. With a general Foreword and individual introductions to each of the thirteen stories, by Christopher Isherwood, thsi volume is guaranteed to provide pleasure when it is read for instruction, instruction when it is read for pleasure." - from the first page of the book
Contents:
Foreward - Christopher Isherwood
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
The Invisible Man - G. K. Chesterton
Albert Nobbs - George Moore
The Magic Shop - H. G. Wells
The Story of the Siren - E. M. Forester
Mary Postgate - Rudyard Kipling
The Blind Man - D. H. Lawrence
Marriage a la Mode - Katherine Mansfield
The Man of the House - Ethel Colburn Mayne
The Shout - Robert Graves
The Book-Bag - W. Somerset Maugham
Sense of Humour - V. S. Pritchett
The Child of Queen Victoria - William Plomer
