Author: Derek Hudson
Eminent Contributors/
Foreword/Introductio: Derek Hudson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 348
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195600967
Description
This volume is a sequel to the collection of Modern English Short Stories selected by Phyllis M. Jones and published in The World’s Classics in 1939, which was itself a sequel to the three volumes of Selected English Short stories since 1800 published in this series in 1914, 1921, and 1927.
The present volume does not ignore experiment; in some cases the quality of the writing and a consummate skill in evoking mood and atmosphere have triumphed over a certain lack of form. And the collection demonstrates on page after page the new awareness of the lights and shadows within the human mind which has been generated by modern psychology and by the nervous intensity of contemporary life.
This selection aims only at presenting some of the best modern stories that have been written in their various kinds.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM (1874-1965)
The Kite
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)
The Duchess and the Jeweller
FRANCES TOWERS (1885-1948)
The Little Willow
C.S. FORESTER (1899-1966)
The Hostage
ERIC LINKLATER (b. 1899)
Sealskin Trousers
V.S. PRITCHETT (b. 1900)
The Voice
WILLIAM PLOMER (b. 1903)
Ever Sucha Nice Boy
EVELYN WAUGH (1903-1966)
On Guard
GRAHAM GREENE (b. 19040)
The Basement Room
H.E. BATES (b. 1905)
The Women Who Had Imagination
JOHN MOORE (1907-1967)
Local Boy Makes Good
CHRISTOPHER SYKES (b. 1907)
The sacred and the Profane
WILLIAM SANSOM (b. 1912)
The Vertical Ladder
FRED URQUHAR (b. 1912)
Man About The House
A.L. BARKER (b. 1918)
Mr. Minnenick
NIGEL KNEALE (b. 1922)
The Putting way of Uncle Quaggin
ELIZABETH BOWEN (b. 1899)
Maria
CLEMENE DANE (b. 1965)
The Dearly Beloved of Benjamin Club
ROSAMOND LEHMANN
A Dream of winter