The Oxford Book Of Short Stories

V. S. Pritchett has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years.

Masters such as, Sir Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, James Joyce, and V. S. Pritchett himself, and stories by Canadian, Indian, New Zealand, and Australian writers, show the full range of invention and ability in a genre that continues to flourish.