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Book Review of Great English Short Stories

Great English Short Stories
Great English Short Stories
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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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