From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith

Author(s)

• Hensher, Philip

Bibliographic Information

From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith

selected with a general introduction by Philip Hensher

（Penguin modern classics, . Fiction . The Penguin book of the British short story / selected with a general introduction by Philip Hensher ; v. 2）

Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2016, c2015

• : [pbk.]

Contents of Works

• Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court / P.G. Wodehouse
• Courage / 'Malachi' Whitaker
• Nineteen / Jack Common
• The dancing-mistress / Elizabeth Bowen
• Cruise / Evelyn Waugh
• The German prisoner / James Hanley
• The point of thirty miles / T.H. White
• Old sweat / Leslie Halward
• Death of a comrade / Julian Maclaren-Ross
• Private Jones / Alun Lewis
• The lull / 'Henry Green'
• The trumpet shall sound / Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Winter cruise / W. Somerset Maugham
• Someone like you / Roald Dahl
• The rook / L.A.G. Strong
• The key of the field / T.F. Powys
• The hint of an explanation / Graham Greene
• A wedding / G.F. Green
• The wrong set / Angus Wilson
• A human condition / Rhys Davies
• The mouse / Francis King
• A contest of ladies / William Sansom
• Knock on wood / Samuel Selvon
• Bang-bang you're dead / Muriel Spark
• Bind your hair / Robert Aickman
• The perfect tenants / V.S. Naipaul
• The cloud-sculptors of Coral D / J.G. Ballard
• Red rubber gloves / Christine Brooke-Rose
• In and out the houses / Elizabeth Taylor
• Manson's life / Kingsley Amis
• Mimic / Alan Sillitoe
• The Camberwell beauty / V.S. Pritchett
• Pioneers, oh, pioneers / 'Jean Rhys'
• Pornography / Ian McEwan
• The courtship of Mr Lyon / Angela Carter
• Notes for a case history / Doris Lessing
• The means of escape / Penelope Fitzgerald
• Five letters from an eastern empire / Alasdair Gray
• Phonefun Limited / Bernard MacLaverty
• Cardboard city / Shena Mackay
• The longstop / Beryl Bainbridge
• Bobby's room / Douglas Dunn
• Grist / Georgina Hammick
• Baby clutch / Adam Mars-Jones
• Three old men / George Mackay Brown
• Racine and the tablecloth / A.S. Byatt
• Career move / Martin Amis
• The only only / Candia McWilliam
• Last thing / Janice Galloway
• Miracle survivors / Ali Smith
• Buckets of blood / Tessa Hadley
• The 40-litre monkey / Adam Marek
• The remains / Jon McGregor
• The embassy of Cambodia / Zadie Smith

Details

• NCID: BB22357811
• ISBN:
  • 9780141396026
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [London]
• Pages/Volumes: xxxviii, 734 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 823.0108
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Short stories, English
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00548998