The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
edited by Malcolm Bradbury, published by Penguin

  • Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession by Malcolm Lowry
  • Ping by Samuel Beckett
  • Mysterious Kor by Elizabeth Bowen
  • A Family Man by V.S. Pritchett
  • The Burning Baby by Dylan Thomas
  • The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen by Graham Greene
  • More Friend Than Lodger by Angus Wilson
  • The Lotus by Jean Rhys
  • Miss Pulkinhorn by William golding
  • My Enemy’s Enemy by Kingsley Amis
  • The Rain Horse by Ted Hughes
  • The Fishing-boat Picture by Alan Sillitoe
  • To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing
  • The House of the Famous Poet by Muriel Spark
  • The Enigma by John Fowles
  • Memories of the Space Age by J.G. Ballard
  • A Meeting in Middle Age by William Trevor
  • In the Hours of Darkness by Edna O’Brien
  • A Few Selected Sentences by B.S. Johnson
  • Composition by Malcolm Bradbury
  • Weekend by Fay Weldon
  • Hotel des Boobs by David Lodge
  • Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie by Beryl Bainbridge
  • Psychopolis by Ian McEwan
  • Flesh and the Mirror by Angela Carter
  • Let me Count the Times by Martin Amis
  • My Wife is a White Russian by Rose Tremain
  • The Prophet’s Hair by Salman Rushdie
  • One of a Kind by Julian Barnes
  • Philomela by Emma Tennant
  • Bedbugs by Clive Sinclair
  • Seraglio by Graham Swift
  • A Family Supper by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Structural Anthropology by Adam Mars-Jones

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