Classic English Short Stories 1930-1955 (Oxford Paperbacks) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192811215 ISBN 13: 9780192811219

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1990

Synopsis

The years from 1930 to 1955 marked a high point in the fortunes of the English short story. Inevitably World War II left its mark on many of the stories Derek Hudson has collected in this suberb volume, but, he argues in the introduction, that "the dominating impression in these English stories...is of humour--not necessarily in the comic sense...but in the sense...of a humorous perspective of life."
The volume includes stories by such renowned writers as Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, and Evelyn Waugh. Stories by Elizabeth Bowen, Frances Towers, Clemence Dane, Rosamond Lehmann, and A.L. Barker demonstrate that women writers have found the short story form increasingly congenial. C.S. Forester and Graham Greene bring their power of narrative to tragic themes, while Eric Linklater asserts his claim on poetic fantasy. The volume also contains characteristic stories by H.E. Bates, V.S. Pritchett, William Plomer, John Moore, Christopher Sykes, William Sansom, Fred Urquhart, and Nigel Kneale.

About this title

About the Author:

About the Editor:
Derek Hudson is a critic, reviewer, and former publisher at Oxford University Press.

Review:

`represents most of the best qualities to be found in this genre in England'
Spectator

`each, as one might expect from such masters, expertly plotted'
The Sunday Telegraph

`All the old favourites are here ... A reassuring bedtime read.'
The Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0192811215
• ISBN 13: 9780192811219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384