Description |
xiv, 362 pages ; 21 cm |
Series |
Oxford paperbacks ; 273 |
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Oxford paperbacks ; 273
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Contents |
The kite / W. Somerset Maugham -- The dutchess and the jeweller / Virginia Woolf -- The little willow / Frances Towers -- The hostage / C.S. Forester -- Sealskin trousers / Eric Linklater -- The voice / V.S. Pritchett -- Ever such a nice boy / William Plomer -- On guard / Evelyn Waugh -- The basement room / Graham Greene -- The woman who had imagination / H.E. Bates -- Local boy makes good / John Moore -- The sacred and the profane / Christopher Sykes -- The vertical ladder / William Sansom -- Man about the house / Fred Urquhart -- Mr. Minnenick / A.L. Barker -- The putting away of Uncle Quaggin / Nigel Kneale -- Maria / Elizabeth Bowen -- The dearly beloved of Benjamin Cobb / Clemence Dane -- A dream of winter / Rosamond Lehmann |
Notes |
Originally published as: Modern English short stories, second series. 1956 |
Subject |
Short stories, English.
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SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115269
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Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Author |
Hudson, Derek.
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LC no. |
73151263 |
ISBN |
0192811215 |
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