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The Penguin book of the British short storyVolume I: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan

Paperback: 768 pages

Publisher: Penguin Classics (December 26, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0141396008

ISBN-13: 978-0141396002

Product size and weight: 12.9 x 3.2 x 19.8 cm

Introduction to the work

A bold anthology ... alive with provocations and insights John Carey, Sunday Times

The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. Ive had very little practice in this sort of thing, you see

The British short story tradition is probably the richest, most varied and historically extensive in the world. This new anthology celebrates the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones, from the storys origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding, to the golden age of the fin de siècle and Edwardian period, ending with the First World War. Including the most famous authors as well as some magnificent, little-known stories never republished since their first appearance in magazines and periodicals, these stories are by turns topical and playful, ghostly and theatrical, rumbustious and sublime.