The Best British Short Stories of 1922The early twentieth century was a period of sweeping change in Western literature, culture, and art. As the conventions of the Victorian and Edwardian periods gave way to daring modernist experiments, the entire conception of what fiction was and could be shifted. The diverse pieces collected in The Best British Short Stories of 1922 function as a microcosm of this fascinating period in literary history. |
Contents
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The Olive by Algernon Blackwood | 66 |
Once a Hero by Harold Brighouse | 82 |
The Pensioner by William Caine | 105 |
Broadsheet Ballad by AE Coppard | 111 |
The Christmas Present by Richmal Crompton | 121 |
The Lie by Holloway Horn | 226 |
A Girl in it by Rowland Kenney | 230 |
The Backstairs of the Mind by Rosamond Langbridge | 243 |
The Birth of a Masterpiece by Lucas Malet | 249 |
Genius by Elinor Mordaunt | 264 |
The Devil to Pay by Max Pemberton | 294 |
Empty Arms by Roland Pertwee | 311 |
Lena Wrace by May Sinclair | 328 |
Seatons Aunt by Walter de la Mare | 129 |
The Reaper by Dorothy Easton | 170 |
The Song by May Edginton | 176 |
A Hedonist by John Galsworthy | 194 |
The Bat and Belfry Inn by Alan Graham | 204 |
The Dice Thrower by Sidney Southgate Thomas Moult | 346 |
The Stranger Woman by GB Stern | 357 |
The Woman Who Sat Still by Parry Truscott | 375 |
Major Wilbraham by Hugh Walpole | 385 |
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