The Penguin book of English short stories
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- The Penguin book of English short stories
- Jaar:
- 1967
- Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- Harmondsworth : Penguin books, 1967
- Plaatsnummer:
- GUISL.VDB 801.19 (Museum Dr. Guislain)
- Paginering:
- 329 pages ; 18 cm.
- Samenvatting:
- The Golden Age of the English short story lies from its first wide acceptance in the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth, a period when there were a great many outlets in Britain for shorter fictions. This title celebrates this period through some of the most widely known writers of the time.
- Nota:
- The signalman/ Charles Dickens -- The withered arm/ Thomas Hardy -- An outpost of progress/ Joseph Conrad -- At the end of the passage/ Rudyard Kipling -- The Country of the blind/ H. G. Wells -- The force of circumstance/ W. Somerset Maugham -- The dead/ James Joyce -- Kew gardens/ Virginia Woolf -- Fanny and Annie/ D. H. Lawrence -- The voyage/ Katherine Mansfield -- The breakout/ Joyce Cary -- The Gioconda smile/ Aldous Huxley -- The fly in the ointment/ V. S. Pritchett -- Mr. Loveday's little outing/ Evelyn Waugh -- Across the bridge/ Graham Greene -- Raspberry Jam/ Angus Wilson.
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