The Oxford library of classic English short stories / with an introduction by Roger Sharrock. Complete box set
1989, 1st edition. London : Guild Publishing. Fine copies (2) in cloth boards backed in gilt-blocked leatherette, in a very good slipcase. Remain particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #444405
Physical description; 2 v. (xiii, 394; viii, 497 p.) ; 23 cm. Contents; v. 1. 1900-1956: Casting the runes / M.R.James -- The background / Saki -- Spindleberries / John Galsworthy -- The judgement of Paris / Leonard Merrick -- Defeat / Geoffrey Moss -- A night at a cottage / Richard Hughes -- The dragon's head / Dorothy L.Sayers -- The hostages / Naomi Mitchison -- The majesty of the law / Frank O'Connor -- On the contrary / Stella Benson -- Jane / W.Somerset Maugham -- Mr. Oddy / Hugh Walpole -- A visit to Grandpa's / Dylan Thomas -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- Ivy gripped the steps / Elizabeth Bowen -- Peasants / Frank O'Connor -- Episode / W. Somerset Maugham -- Mr. Loveday's little outing / Evelyn Waugh -- Realpolitik / Angus Wilson -- Umaru / Joyce Cary -- The girl on the bus / William Sansom -- The killing bottle / L.P.Hartley -- When Greek meets Greek / Graham Greene -- A good investment / Joyce Cary -- The aristocrat ; The scapegoat / V.S.Pritchett.
v. 2. 1956-1975: Charmed lives / Nadine Gordimer -- The size of a pocket-handkerchief / Viola Meynell -- Cat up a tree / William Sansom -- Ten minutes to twelve / Angus Wilson -- Afternoon of a faun / Rhys Davies -- The pepper-tree / Dal Stivens -- Great Uncle Crow / H.E.Bates -- The runaway / Morley Callaghan -- Forty years on / Norah Lofts -- Late night on Watling Street / Bill Naughton --The man on the moon / Peter Ustinov -- A wedding in spring / George Lamming -- A message from the pig-man / John Wain -- A high dive / L.E. Jones -- The great wave / Mary Lavin -- Last spring they came over / Morley Callaghan -- The will of Allah / David Owoyele -- The interview / R. Prawer Jhabvala -- The people before / Maurice Shadbolt -- I can play "schools" / May C.Jenkins -- Should Wizard hit Mommy? / John Updike -- A hen and some eggs / Frank Sargeson -- A dedicated man / Elizabeth Taylor -- The circle / Gordon Meyer -- A spot of leave / Olivia Manning -- A Christmas story / V.S. Naipaul -- In at the birth / William Trevor -- Tigers are better-looking / Jean Rhys -- A horse and two goats / R.K.Narayan -- The licence / Frank Tuohy -- Uncle Ben's choice / Chinua Achebe -- The green man revisited / Kingsley Amis -- The Zulu and the Zeide / Dan Jacobson -- God's own country / Benedict Kiely -- The silver crown / Bernard Malamud -- Cockles and mussels / Susan Hill -- Tithonus / George Mackay Brown -- Five-twenty / Patrick White -- Concerto / Elspeth Davie.
Subjects; Short stories, English. 20th century fiction. Oxford library collections. English literature, short stories. Anthologies, short stories in English.
Price: €45.00