The green man revisited : classic English short stories

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The green man revisited : classic English short stories

selected by Roger Sharrock

(Oxford paperbacks)

Oxford University Press, 1988

  • pbk.

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English short stories of today

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Originally published: English short stories of today. Fourth series. London : Oxford University Press for the English Association, 1976

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is a collection of short stories written in English in the 1960s and 1970s, by well established authors living around the world. They have been compiled by Roger Sharrock to reflect a variety of short fiction of the period. Sharrock has written a preface and biographical notes on the authors.

Table of Contents

  • Preface. "Uncle Ben's choice", Chinua Achebe
  • "The green man revisited", Kingsley Amis
  • "Tithonus", George Mackay Brown
  • "The runaway", Morley Callaghan
  • "Concerto", Elspeth Davie
  • "Cockles and mussels", Susan Hill
  • "The Zulu and the Zeide", Dan Jacobson
  • "God's own country", Benedict Kiely
  • "The silver crown", Bernard Malamud
  • "A spot of leave", Olivia Manning
  • "The circle", Gordon Meyer
  • "A Christmas story", V.S.Naipaul
  • "A horse and two goats", R.K.Narayan
  • "Tigers are better-looking", Jean Rhys
  • "A hen and some eggs", Frank Sargeson
  • "A dedicated man", Elizabeth Taylor
  • "In at the birth", William Trevor
  • "The licence", Frank Tuohy
  • "Should Wizard hit Mommy?", John Updike
  • "Five-twenty", Patrick White.

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