British short stories
Subtitle: classics and criticism
By: edited by Leonard R. N. Ashley [and] Stuart L. Astor.
Contributors: Astor, Stuart L., joint comp.
Series: Prentice-Hall English literature series
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Short stories, English.; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Table of contents: title: The modern short story: a reader's introduction.; title: The man who would be king, by R. Kipling.; title: The master, by O. Wilde.; title: The real thing, by H. James.; title: The hammer of God, by G. K. Chesterton.; title: The open window, by "Saki" (H. H. Munro); title: The secret sharer, by J. Conrad.; title: Araby, by J. Joyce.; title: The rocking-horse winner, by D. H. Lawrence.; title: The fly, by K. Mansfield.; title: The celestial omnibus, by E. M. Forster.; title: Young Archimedes, by A. Huxley.; title: The outstation, by W. S. Maugham.; title: The face of evil, by F. O'Connor.; title: The phoenix, by S. T. Warner.; title: The basement room, by G. Greene.; title: I am waiting, by C. Isherwood.; title: A queer heart, by E. Bowen.; title: Real-politik, by A. Wilson.; title: A story, by D. Thomas.; title: Another part of the sky, by N. Gordimer.; title: The sailor, by V. S. Pritchett.; title: The vertical ladder, by W. Sansom. Bibliography (p. 414-417)