Modern english short stories 1930-1955 – Dereck Hudson – Oxford University Press – 1980 – Blanda

**Modern english short stories 1930-1955**: Contents:

Editor's Note.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
The Kite.

Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
The Duchess and the jeweller.

Frances Towers (1885 - 1948)
The little willow.

C. S. Forester (1899 - 1974)
The Hostage.

Eric Linklater (1899 - 1974)
Sealskin Trousers.

William Plomer (1903 - 1973)
Ever Such a Nice Boy.

Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
On guard.

Graham Greene (b. 1904)
The basement room.

H. E. Bates (1905 - 1974)
The woman who had imaginaton.

John Moore (1907 - 1967)
Local boy makes good.

Christopher Sykes (b. 1907)
The scared and the profane.

William Sansom (b. 1912)
The vertical ladder.

Fred Urquhart (b. 1912)
Man about the house.

A. L. Barker (b. 1918)
Mr. Minnenick.

Nigel Kneale (b. 1922)
The putting away of Uncle Quaggin.

Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
Maria.
Clemence Dane (d. 1965)
The dearly beloved of Benjamin Cobb.

Rosamond Lehann.
A dream of winter.