Modern English Short Stories 2

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'It so well illustrates the short story's
revolution in this country in the past
three or four decades/
The Sunday Times
4 It represents most of the best qualities
to be found in this genre in England/
The Spectator
These nineteen short stories show that
the art still flourishes in England and
that some of the most vivid and sensi-
tive contemporary writing has been in
this form. This anthology is a successor
to the volume of Modern English Short
Stories published in The World's Classics
in 1939* which has been often reprinted.
In making the present collection* Mr.
Derek Hudson has taken the year 1930
as an approximate starting-point; with
two exceptions all the authors are still
living. Somerset Maugham* Elizabeth
Bowen, and H. E. Bates* whose work
appeared in the earlier collection* are
freshly represented here. Tales by
Virginia Woolf* Frances Towers*
Clemence Dane* Rosamond Lehmann*
and A. L. Barker show that women
writers have found the short story... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'It so well illustrates the short story's
revolution in this country in the past
three or four decades/
The Sunday Times
4 It represents most of the best qualities
to be found in this genre in England/
The Spectator
These nineteen short stories show that
the art still flourishes in England and
that some of the most vivid and sensi-
tive contemporary writing has been in
this form. This anthology is a successor
to the volume of Modern English Short
Stories published in The World's Classics
in 1939* which has been often reprinted.
In making the present collection* Mr.
Derek Hudson has taken the year 1930
as an approximate starting-point; with
two exceptions all the authors are still
living. Somerset Maugham* Elizabeth
Bowen, and H. E. Bates* whose work
appeared in the earlier collection* are
freshly represented here. Tales by
Virginia Woolf* Frances Towers*
Clemence Dane* Rosamond Lehmann*
and A. L. Barker show that women
writers have found the short story in-
creasingly congenial. C. S. Forester
and Graham Greene bring their power
of narrative to tragic themes and Eric
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Linklater asserts his claim on poetic
fantasy. There are characteristic stories
by V. S. Pritchett, Evelyn Waugh,
William Plomer, John Moore, Christo-
pher Sykes, William Sanson^ Fred
Urquhart, and Nigel Kneale.
The selection aims at presenting some
of the best modern stories that have
been written in their various kinds.
The stories inevitably reflect the ten-
sion of the twenty-five years in which
they were written, but perhaps the
dominating impression they leave is
of humour, in the sense of a humorous
perspective of life. Vissza