The Penguin Book of English Short Stories

The Golden Age of the English short story runs from its first wide acceptance in the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth, a period when there were a great many outlets in Britain for shorter fictions. This collection celebrates this period through some of the most widely known writers of the time, such as: Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, H.G.Wells, W. Somerset Maugham, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D.H.Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Joyce Cary, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, V.S. Pritchett, Graham Green and Angus Wilson.