The golden age of British short stories, 1890-1914
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The golden age of British short stories, 1890-1914
（Penguin classics, . Literature）
Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2021, c2020
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Contents of Works
- The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling
- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy
- An elixir of love / W.S. Gilbert
- The Buddhist priest's wife / Olive Schreiner
- The Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde
- A novel in a nutshell / George Moore
- The autobiography of an idea / Barry Pain
- Irremediable / Ella D'arcy
- The argonauts of the air / H.G. Wells
- The figure in the carpet / Henry James
- A nocturne / George Egerton
- Old Cater's money / Arthur Morrison
- The peace bringer / George Gissing
- The Brazilian cat / Arthur Conan Doyle
- Gentlemen and players / E.W. Hornung
- Trinket's colt / Somerville and Ross
- Mark Stafford's wife / Charlotte Mew
- The treasure of Abbot Thomas / M.R. James
- The awful reason of the Vicar's visit / G.K. Chesterton
- Wilkinson's wife / May Sinclair
- The tug of love / Israel Zangwill
- The death of Simon Fuge / Arnold Bennett
- Women o'Dulditch / Mary Mann
- Gabriel-Ernest / Saki
- Cheap lodgings / J.E. Malloch
- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad
- A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm
- The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster
- Brocotnaz / Wyndham Lewis
- The bus-conductor / E.F. Benson
- The woman at the store / Katherine Mansfield
- Indissoluble matrimony / Rebecca West
- An encounter / James Joyce
- The Prussian officer / D.H. Lawrence
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'Excellent, entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle, this fine anthology celebrates one of the richest moments in Britain's literary history' Sunday Times
The quarter century between 1890 and the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain, fuelled by a large, eager new magazine readership. The great writers of the age produced some of their finest work, and literary genres - the ghost story, science fiction - took shape. This richly varied, endlessly entertaining anthology brings together authors from Katherine Mansfield to Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce to Saki, H. G. Wells to Rebecca West. It celebrates a teeming, innovative world of literary achievement.
Edited with an introduction by Philip Hensher
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