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P. G. WODEHOUSE • ‘MALACHI’ WHITAKER • JACK COMMON • ELIZABETH BOWEN • EVELYN WAUGH • JAMES HANLEY • T. H. WHITE • LESLIE HALWARD • JULIAN MACLAREN-ROSS • ALUN LEWIS • ‘HENRY GREEN’ • SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER • W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM • ROALD DAHL • L. A. G. STRONG • T. F. POWYS • GRAHAM GREENE • G. F. GREEN • ANGUS WILSON • RHYS DAVIES • FRANCIS KING • WILLIAM SANSOM • SAMUEL SELVON • MURIEL SPARK • ROBERT AICKMAN • V. S. NAIPAUL • J. G. BALLARD • CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE • ELIZABETH TAYLOR • KINGSLEY AMIS • ALAN SILLITOE • V. S. PRITCHETT • JEAN RHYS • IAN MCEWAN • ANGELA CARTER • DORIS LESSING • PENELOPE FITZGERALD • ALASDAIR GRAY • BERNARD MACLAVERTY • SHENA MACKAY • BERYL BAIN-BRIDGE • DOUGLAS DUNN • GEORGINA HAMMICK • ADAM MARS-JONES • GEORGE MACKAY BROWN • A. S. BYATT • MARTIN AMIS • CANDIA MCWILLIAM • JANICE GALLOWAY • ALI SMITH • TESSA HADLEY • ADAM MAREK • JON MCGREGOR • ZADIE SMITH
Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected: these two extraordinary volumes contain the limitless possibilities of the British short story.
This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. The most famous authors are here, and many others, including some magnificent stories never republished since their first appearance in magazines and periodicals. The Penguin Book of the British Short Story has a permanent authority, and will be reached for year in and year out.
This volume takes the story from its origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding to the ‘golden age’ of the fin de siècle and Edwardian period.
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Philip Hensher is a novelist, critic, librettist and short story writer. The Northern Clemency was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent novel is The Emperor Waltz.
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DANIEL DEFOE • JONATHAN SWIFT •HENRY FIELDING • HANNAH MORE • MARY LAMB • JAMES HOGG • JOHN GALT • FREDERICK MARRYAT • WILLIAM THACKERAY • ELIZABETH GASKELL • ANTHONY TROLLOPE • WILKIE COLLINS • CHARLES DICKENS • THOMAS HARDY • MARGARET OLIPHANT • ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON • ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE • ARTHUR MORRISON • ‘MRS ERNEST LEVERSON’ • EVELYN SHARP • T. BARON RUSSELL • JOSEPH CONRAD • H. G. WELLS • M. R. JAMES ‘SAKI’ • G. K. CHESTERTON • MAX BEERBOHM • ARNOLD BENNETT • D. H. L AWRENCE • RUDYARD KIPLING • STACY AUMONIER • VIOLA MEYNELL • A. E. COPPARD • E. M. DELAFIELD • DOROTHY EDWARDS • JOHN BUCHAN
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This collection first published in Penguin Classics 2015
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ISBN: 978-0-141-97929-8
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