THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH SHORT STORIES by Byatt, A. S. (editor) (Charles Dickens; Anthony Trollope; Thomas Hardy; Mary Mann; M. R. James; Rudyard Kipling; H. G. Wells; Charlotte Mew; Saki; G. K. Chesterton; P. G. Wodehouse; Virginia Woolf; J. G. Ballard; Angela Carter; Rose Tremain) - 1998

Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1998. (xxx) 439 pp. Black boards decorated in gilt on the spine. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket. The dustjacket features Green Tea by Leonora Carrington. This story collection contains: Introduction by A. S. Byatt; The Sacristan of St Botolph by William Gilbert; The Haunted House by Charles Dickens; Relics of General Chasse: A Tale of Antwerp by Anthony Trollope; A Mere Interlude by Thomas Hardy; Little Brother by Mary Mann; Two Doctors by M. R. James; Behind the Shade by Arthur Morrison; Wireless by Rudyard Kipling; Under the Knife by H. G. Wells; A White Night by Charlotte Mew; The Toys of Peace by Saki; The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown by G. K. Chesterton; Some Talk of Alexander by A. E. Coppard; The Reverent Wooding of Archibald by P. G. Wodehouse; Solid Objects by Virginia Woolf; The Man Who Loved Islands by D. H. Lawrence; A Tragedy in Green by Ronald Firbank; A Widow's Quilt by Sylvia Townsend Warner; Nuns at Luncheon by Aldous Huxley; Landlord of the Crystal Fountain by Malachi Whitaker; On the Edge of the Cliff by V. S. Pritchett; A Dream of Winter by Rosamund Lehmann; An Englishman's Home by Evelyn Waugh; The Destructors by Graham Green; The Waterfall by H. E. Bates; The Troll by T. H. White; The Blush by Elizabeth Taylor; At Hiruharama by Penelope Fitzgerald; My Flannal Knickers by Leonora Carrington; Enoch's Two Letters by Alan Sillitoe; Dream Cargoes by J. G. Ballard; Telephone by John Fuller; My Story by John Fuller; The Kiss by Angela Carter; The Beauty of the Dawn Shift by Rose Tremain; Solid Geometry by Ian McEwan; and Dead Languages by Philip Hensher.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Leonora Carrington;. 8vo.