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The Penguin book of modern British short stories / edited with an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury.

Van Pelt Library PR1309.S5 P46 1987
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Bradbury, Malcolm, 1932-2000.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Short stories, English.
English fiction--20th century.
English fiction.
Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Great Britain.
Manners and customs.
Genre:
Short stories, English.
Fiction.
English fiction.
Physical Description:
448 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., USA : Viking, 1987.
Contents:
Strange comfort afforded by the profession / Malcolm Lowry
Ping / Samuel Beckett
Mysterious Kor / Elizabeth Bowen
A family man / V.S. Pritchett
The burning baby / Dylan Thomas
The invisible Japanese gentleman / Graham Greene
More friend than lodger / Angus Wilson
The lotus / Jean Rhys
Miss Pulkinhorn / William Golding
My enemy's enemy / Kinglsey Amis
The rain horse / Ted Hughes
The fishing-boat picture / Alan Sillitoe
To room nineteen / Doris Lessing
The house of the famous poet / Muriel Spark
The enigma / John Fowles
Memories of the space age / J.G. Ballard
A meeting in middle age / William Trevor
In the hours of darkness / Edna O'Brien
A few selected sentences / B.S. Johnson
Composition / Malcolm Bradbury
Weekend / Fay Weldon
Hotel des Boobs / David Lodge
Clap hands, here comes Charlie / Beryl Bainbridge
Psychopolis / Ian McEwan
Flesh and the mirror / Angela Carter
Let me count the times / Martin Amis
My wife is a White Russian / Rose Tremain
The prophet's hair / Salman Rushdie
One of a kind / Julian Barnes
Philomela / Emma Tennant
Bedbugs / Clive Sinclair
Seraglio / Graham Swift
A family supper / Kazuo Ishiguro
Structural anthropology / Adam Mars-Jones.
ISBN:
0670819263 :
OCLC:
18629274

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