The Oxford book of English short stories / edited by A.S. Byatt

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxx, 439 pages ; 20 cm. Contents; Introduction / A. S. Byatt -- The Sacristan of St. Botolph / William Gilbert -- The haunted house / Charles Dickens -- Relics of General Chasse : A tale of Antwerp / Anthony Trollope -- A mere interlude / Thomas Hardy -- Little brother / Mary Mann -- Two doctors / M. R. James -- Behind the shade / Arthur Morrison -- 'Wireless' / Rudyard Kipling -- Under the knife / H. G. Wells -- A white night / Charlotte Mew -- The toys of peace / Saki -- The tremendous adventures of Major Brown / G. K. Chesterton -- Some talk of Alexander / A. E. Coppard -- The reverent wooing of Archibald / P. G. Wodehouse -- Solid objects / Virginia Woolf -- The man who loved islands / D. H. Lawrence -- A tragedy in green / Ronald Firbank -- A widow's quilt / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Nuns at luncheon / Aldous Huxley -- Landlord of the crystal fountain / Malachi Whitaker -- On the edge of the cliff / V. S. Pritchett -- A dream of winter / Rosamund Lehmann -- An Englishman's home / Evelyn Waugh -- The destructors / Graham Greene -- The waterfall / H. E. Bates -- The troll / T. H. White -- The blush / Elizabeth Taylor -- At Hiruharama / Penelope Fitzgerald -- My flannel knickers / Leonora Carrington -- Enoch's two letters / Alan Sillitoe -- Dream cargoes / J. G. Ballard -- Telephone / John Fuller -- My story / John Fuller -- The kiss / Angela Carter -- The beauty of the dawn shift / Rose Tremain -- Solid geometry / Ian McEwan -- Dead languages / Philip Hensher. Subjects; Short stories, English. Manners and customs. Short stories, English. Anthologies. England Social life and customs ; Fiction. Angleterre M�urs et coutumes ; Romans, nouvelles, etc. England. England Social life and customs Fiction.