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The golden age of British short stories, 1890-1914 / edited by Philip Hensher.

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Penguin Books|Penguin Random House UK, 2020.

Penguin classics

9780141992204 (hc.)

xx, 606 p. ; 24 cm.

Introduction / by Philip Hensher -- The-- Man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling -- The-- Withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- An-- Elixir of love / W.S. Gilbert -- The-- Buddhist priest's wife / Olive Schreiner -- The-- Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- A-- Novel in a nutshell / George Moore -- The-- Autobiography of an idea / Barry Pain -- Irremediable / Ella D'Arcy -- The-- Argonauts of the air / H.G. Wells -- The-- Figure in the carpet / Henry James -- A-- Nocturne / George Egerton -- Old Cater's money / Arthur Morrison -- The-- Peace bringer / George Gissing -- The-- Brazilian cat / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Gentlemen and players / E.W. Hornung -- Trinket's colt / Somerville and Ross -- Mark Stafford's wife / Charlotte Mew -- The-- Treasure of Abbot Thomas / M.R. James -- The-- Awful reason of the vicar's visit / G.K. Chesterton -- Wilkinson's wife / May Sinclair -- The-- Tug of love / Israel Zangwill -- The-- Death of Simon Fuge / Arnold Bennett -- Women o'Dulditch / Mary Mann -- Gabriel-Ernest / Saki -- Cheap lodgings / J.E. Malloch -- The-- Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm -- The-- Celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster -- Brocotnaz / Wyndham Lewis -- The-- Bus-conductor / E.F. Benson -- The-- Woman at the store / Katherine Mansfield -- Indissoluble matrimony / Rebecca West -- An-- Encounter / James Joyce -- The-- Prussian officer / D.H. Lawrence.

The quarter century or so before the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain. Fuelled by a large new magazine readership and vigorous competition to acquire new stories and develop the careers of some of our greatest writers, these years were ones where the normal rule-of-thumb (novels sell, short stories don't) was inverted. This was the era of Sherlock Holmes, of Kipling's most famous stories, of M.R. James, Katherine Mansfield and James Joyce's 'Dubliners'.

Literary fiction.

Hensher, Philip.

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