The English Short Story I and II - two pamphlets
Beachcroft, T. O.
| Publication Date |
1964 |
| Publisher |
The British Council and the National Book League with Longmans, Green & Co, |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Condition |
Very good set |
| SKU |
24504 |
| Notes |
Hint of fading to the spine edge else very clean and neat pair. |
Description
Paperback. 40+42pp. Nos. 168 and 169 in the Writers & Their Work series. Black and white frontis. Matt yellow card covers. Vol I considered Medieval stories through Elizabethan, eighteenth century and a brief consideration of short stories by major Victorian novelists Charles Dickens, Anthony TRollope, William Makepeace Thackeray and Elizabeth Gaskell. Vol II considers a range of late Victorian and modernist writers including Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, William Sansom, Elizabeth Bowen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Somerset Maugham ,D. H. Lawrence and Walter de la Mere before considering developments since the second world war.
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