The Best British Short Stories of 1922
By Stacy Aumonier
Length12h 18m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "Never before have men had such opportunities for knowing the world, never before has it been so easy to cover space, our means of communication have never been so rapid; yet there is an almost maddening contradiction in the fact that every man who writes is content in describing but a single facet of the great adventure of life. Our age is an age of specialisation, and many a man spends a life in trying to visualise for us a fragment of existence in multitudinous variations. An Empire may be said to stand for a universalising tendency, yet the extraordinary fact about the mass of English stories today is that, far from being expressive of any tendency to unity, they are mostly concerned with presenting the specialised atmospheres of so many individual localities and vocations. We have writers who do not go beyond Dartmoor, or Park Lane, or the East End of London; we have writers of sea stories, jungle stories, detective stories, lost jewel stories, slum stories, and we have writers who seldom stray from the cricket field or the prize ring, or Freudian complexes."
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length12 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 17, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
13A GIRL IN IT
2THE LOOKING GLASS
14THE BACKSTAIRS OF THE MIND
3THE OLIVE
15THE BIRTH OF A MASTERPIECE
4ONCE A HERO
16"GENIUS"
5THE PENSIONER
17THE DEVIL TO PAY
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6BROADSHEET BALLAD
18EMPTY ARMS
7THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT
19LENA WRACE
8THE REAPER
20THE DICE THROWER
9THE SONG
21THE STRANGER WOMAN
10A HEDONIST
22THE WOMAN WHO SAT STILL
11THE BAT AND BELFRY INN
23MAJOR WILBRAHAM
12THE LIE
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