Fables of wit and elegance.
By: Edited and with an introd. by Louis Auchincloss.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Short stories, English.; Short stories, American.
Table of contents: title: The abasement of the Northmores, by H. James.; title: The portrait of Mr. W. H., by O. Wilde.; title: Autres temps, by E. Wharton.; title: Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton, by M. Beerbohm.; title: Thirty clocks strike the hour, by V. Sackeville-West.; title: Lambert Orme, by H. Nicolson.; title: Incident in Azania, by E. Waugh.; title: Glory in the daytime, by D. Parker.; title: The eternal moment, by E. M. Forster.; title: The echo and the nemesis, by J. Stafford.; title: The friend of the family, by M. McCarthy.; title: The Tillotson banquet, by A. Huxley.; title: In the absence of angels, by H. Calisher.