The Penguin Book of British Comic Stories
Subtitle: An Anthology Humorous Stories from Kipling Wodehouse Beryl Bainbridge Julian Bar
Contributors: Patricia Craig (Editor)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780140122923
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: vii; title: from Helen Huddleson
pagenum: 1
authors: Amanda McKitrick Ros; title: The Last Term
pagenum: 13
authors: Rudyard Kipling; title: The English Aunt
pagenum: 33
authors: Kathleen Fitzpatrick; title: The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
pagenum: 45
authors: Saki; title: The Mote in the Middle Distance
pagenum: 54
authors: Max Beerbohm; title: The Facts of Life
pagenum: 58
authors: W. Somerset Maugham; title: Goodbye to All Cats
pagenum: 78
authors: P. G. Wodehouse; title: Germans at Meat
pagenum: 96
authors: Katherine Mansfield; title: from The Provincial Lady in Wartime
pagenum: 100
authors: E. M. Delafield; title: William and the Young Man
pagenum: 128
authors: Richmal Crompton; title: A Pair of Duelling Pistols
pagenum: 147
authors: Sylvia Townsend Warner; title: Period Piece
pagenum: 155
authors: Robert Graves; title: The Cheery Soul
pagenum: 159
authors: Elizabeth Bowen; title: Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
pagenum: 170
authors: Stella Gibbons; title: Basil Seal Rides Again
pagenum: 183
authors: Evelyn Waugh; title: The Drunkard
pagenum: 213
authors: Frank O'Connor; title: A Shocking Accident
pagenum: 224
authors: Graham Greene; title: Silas the Good
pagenum: 231
authors: H. E. Bates; title: The Lull
pagenum: 236
authors: Henry Green; title: Fingal
pagenum: 249
authors: Samuel Beckett; title: Teddy Lester's Schooldays
pagenum: 259
authors: J. I. M. Stewart; title: The Martyr's Crown
pagenum: 289
authors: Flann O'Brien; title: Time Gents, Please
pagenum: 294
authors: William Sansom; title: Funny Things Happen
pagenum: 299
authors: Julian Maclaren Ross; title: Crazy Crowd
pagenum: 306
authors: Angus Wilson; title: Where Tawe Flows
pagenum: 325
authors: Dylan Thomas; title: The First Year of My Life
pagenum: 341
authors: Muriel Spark; title: Eton Crop
pagenum: 348
authors: Benedict Kiely; title: Moral Fibre
pagenum: 363
authors: Kingsley Amis; title: An Ample Wish
pagenum: 387
authors: Gwyn Thomas; title: Monsoon Selection Board
pagenum: 392
authors: George Macdonald Fraser; title: Raymond Bamber and Mrs Fitch
pagenum: 400
authors: William Trevor; title: Walk Tall, If You Dare
pagenum: 420
authors: John Morrow; title: The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book
pagenum: 427
authors: V. S. Naipaul; title: Mr Heine
pagenum: 436
authors: Iain Crichton-Smith; title: Horrors of the Road
pagenum: 443
authors: Fay Weldon; title: Through the Wilderness
pagenum: 452
authors: Michael Frayn; title: People for Lunch
pagenum: 455
authors: Beryl Bainbridge; title: Dympna
pagenum: 465
authors: Michael Foley; title: Renee
pagenum: 469
authors: James Kelman; title: The Stowaway
pagenum: 481
authors: Julian Barnes; title: Psalms
pagenum: 508
authors: Jeanette Winterson; title: Biographical Notes
pagenum: 515; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 521