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The Oxford Book of English Short Stories

A. S. Byatt

First published 1999
Publisher Oxford University Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Leonora Carrington
Pages 439
Price £11.99
ISBN 0192881116

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Sacristan of St Botolph William Gilbert Short Story
18 The Haunted House Charles Dickens Novelette
44 Relics of General Chassé: A Tale of Antwerp Anthony Trollope Short Story
63 A Mere Interlude Thomas Hardy Novelette
93 Little Brother Mary Mann Short Story
97 Two Doctors M. R. James Short Story
105 Behind the Shade Arthur Morrison Short Story
110 'Wireless' Rudyard Kipling Short Story
127 Under the Knife H. G. Wells Short Story
139 A White Night Charlotte Mew Short Story
155 The Toys of Peace Saki Short Story
160 The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown G. K. Chesterton Short Story
180 Some Talk of Alexander A. E. Coppard Short Story
188 The Reverent Wooing of Archibald P. G. Wodehouse Short Story
204 Solid Objects Virginia Woolf Short Story
210 The Man who Loved Islands D. H. Lawrence Novelette
233 A Tragedy in Green Ronald Firbank Short Story
243 A Widow's Quilt Sylvia Townsend Warner Short Story
250 Nuns at Luncheon Aldous Huxley Short Story
264 Landlord of the Crystal Fountain Malachi Whitaker Short Story
270 On the Edge of the Cliff V. S. Pritchett Short Story
286 A Dream of Winter Rosamond Lehmann Short Story
295 An Englishman's Home Evelyn Waugh Short Story
311 The Destructors Graham Greene Short Story
325 The Waterfall H. E. Bates Short Story
345 The Troll T. H. White Short Story
355 The Blush Elizabeth Taylor Short Story
362 At Hiruharama Penelope Fitzgerald Short Story
369 My Flannel Knickers Leonora Carrington Short Story
372 Enoch's Two Letters Alan Sillitoe Short Story
381 Dream Cargoes J. G. Ballard Short Story
396 Telephone John Fuller Short Story
398 My Story John Fuller Short Story
400 The Kiss Angela Carter Short Story
403 The Beauty of the Dawn Shift Rose Tremain Short Story
420 Solid Geometry Ian McEwan Short Story
435 Dead Languages Philip Hensher Short Story