THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MODERN BRITISH SHORT STORIES. by BRADBURY, Malcolm (Ed.)

Viking, London. 1987. 1st. edn. Hardback in dustwrapper. 8vo. pp448. Orig. red cloth, gilt to bumped spine, o/w VG+ in VG d/w with fading to spine & slight peripheral wear, tiny chip to front panel & bumping to spine."This anthology, compiled by the influential writer and critic Malcolm Bradbury, contains work from thirty-four of Britain's most outstanding modern writers. Among them are long-established names - Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, V. S. Pritchett, Doris Lessing - and also the best of a younger generation of writers including Graham Swift, lan McEwan, Martin Amis, Rose Tremain. The anthology indudes stories of love and stories of crime, stories touched with comedy and with the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest, Tokyo, In every sense a collection of 'the best of the best', it is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and to read again and again."