Two centuries of English literary achievement are gathered here in a beautifully designed collection of sixteen short stories, celebrating the remarkable range and vitality of the shorter form. Though many of the writers featured are best known for their novels, in these pages they offer a mesmerising, multi-faceted portrait of a country and its people. Some of the stories are established classics — among them James Joyce’s The Dead — while others, such as Evelyn Waugh’s Mr Loveday’s Little Outing, are comparatively little-known and all the more delightful for it. Concise, evocative, subtle and satisfying, each story is a small jewel opening a window onto another world, spanning a wide range of genres and sensibilities. The Penguin Book of English Short Stories brings together work from Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, and many more of the finest writers in the English language.
ISBN 13: 9780241952856
Author: Christopher Dolley
