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FIRST LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/penguin-books-of-british-short-stories/
RUDYARD KIPLING: The Man Who Would be King
P. G. WODEHOUSE: Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court
THE WITHERED ARM by Thomas Hardy
‘MALACHI’ WHITAKER: Courage
W. S. GILBERT: An Elixir of Love
JACK COMMON: Nineteen
OLIVE SCHREINER: The Buddhist Priest’s Wife
THE DANCING-MISTRESS by Elizabeth Bowen
SECOND LINK: https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2022/04/26/penguin-books-of-british-short-stories-2/
THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET by Oscar Wilde
EVELYN WAUGH: Cruise Letters from a Young Lady of Leisure
GEORGE MOORE: A Novel in a Nutshell
JAMES HANLEY: The German Prisoner
BARRY PAIN: The Autobiography of an Idea
T. H. WHITE: The Point of Thirty Miles
ELLA D’ARCY: Irremediable
LESLIE HALWARD: Old Sweat
H. G. WELLS: The Argonauts of the Air
JULIAN MACLAREN-ROSS: Death of a Comrade
HENRY JAMES: The Figure in the Carpet
THIRD LINK: https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/26609-2/
ALUN LEWIS: Private Jones
GEORGE EGERTON: A Nocturne
HENRY GREEN’: The Lull
ARTHUR MORRISON: Old Cater’s Money
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER: The Trumpet Shall Sound
GEORGE GISSING: The Peace Bringer
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: Winter Cruise
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: The Brazilian Cat
ROALD DAHL: Someone Like You
FOURTH LINK: https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/915-2/
E. W. HORNUNG: Gentlemen and Players
L. A. G. STRONG: The Rook
SOMERVILLE AND ROSS: Trinket’s Colt
T. F. POWYS: The Key of the Field
CHARLOTTE MEW: Mark Stafford’s Wife
GRAHAM GREENE: The Hint of an Explanation
M. R. JAMES: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
G. F. GREEN: A Wedding
G. K. CHESTERTON: The Awful Reason of the Vicar’s Visit
ANGUS WILSON: The Wrong Set
MAY SINCLAIR: Wilkinson’s Wife
FIFTH LINK: https://etepsed.wordpress.com/1207-2/
RHYS DAVIES: A Human Condition
FRANCIS KING: The Mouse
ISRAEL ZANGWILL: The Tug of Love
WILLIAM SANSOM: A Contest of Ladies
SAMUEL SELVON: Knock On Wood
ARNOLD BENNETT: The Death of Simon Fuge
MURIEL SPARK: Bang-Bang You’re Dead
BIND YOUR HAIR by Robert Aickman
MARY MANN: Women o’ Dulditch
V. S. NAIPAUL: The Perfect Tenants
J. G. BALLARD: The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D
SAKI: Gabriel-Ernest
CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE: Red Rubber Gloves
ELIZABETH TAYLOR: In and Out the Houses
J. E. MALLOCH: Cheap Lodgings
SIXTH LINK: https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/kingsley-amis-masons-life/
KINGSLEY AMIS: Mason’s Life
ALAN SILLITOE: Mimic
JOSEPH CONRAD: The Secret Sharer
V. S. PRITCHETT: The Camberwell Beauty
JEAN RHYS: Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers
A. V. LAIDER by Sir Max Beerbohm
IAN MCEWAN: Pornography
ANGELA CARTER: The Courtship of Mr Lyon
THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS by E.M. Forster
DORIS LESSING: Notes for a Case History
PENELOPE FITZGERALD: The Means of Escape
WYNDHAM LEWIS: Brotcotnaz
Five Letters From An Eastern Empire by Alasdair Gray
SEVENTH LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/35138-2/
BERNARD MACLAVERTY: Phonefun Limited
E. F. BENSON: The Bus-Conductor
SHENA MACKAY: Cardboard City
BERYL BAINBRIDGE: The Longstop
KATHERINE MANSFIELD: The Woman at the Store
DOUGLAS DUNN: Bobby’s Room
GEORGINA HAMMICK: Grist
REBECCA WEST: Indissoluble Matrimony
ADAM MARS-JONES: Baby Clutch
GEORGE MACKAY BROWN: Three Old Men
JAMES JOYCE: An Encounter
A. S. BYATT: Racine and the Tablecloth
MARTIN AMIS: Career Move
CANDIA MCWILLIAM: The Only Only
JANICE GALLOWAY: last thing
ALI SMITH: miracle survivors
EIGHTH LINK: https://weirdtongue.wordpress.com/the-penguin-books-of-the-british-short-story/
TESSA HADLEY: Buckets of Blood
ADAM MAREK: The 40-Litre Monkey
D. H. LAWRENCE: The Prussian Officer
JON MCGREGOR: The Remains Friskney
ZADIE SMITH: The Embassy of Cambodia
Daniel Defoe: A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal
Jonathan Swift: Directions to the Footman
Henry Fielding: The Female Husband
Hannah More: Betty Brown, the St Giles’s Orange Girl: with Some Account of Mrs Sponge, the Money Lender
Mary Lamb: The Farm House
James Hogg: John Gray o’ Middleholm
John Galt: The Howdie
NINTH LINK: https://nemonymous123456.wordpress.com/the-penguin-books-of-the-british-short-story/
Frederick Marryat: South West and by West three-quarters West
William Thackeray: A Little Dinner at Timmins’s
Elizabeth Gaskell: Six Weeks at Heppenheim
Anthony Trollope: An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
Wilkie Collins: Mrs Badgery
Charles Dickens: Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgings
THE THREE STRANGERS by Thomas Hardy
THE LIBRARY WINDOW by Mrs. Oliphant
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Body Snatcher
SILVER BLAZE: Arthur Conan Doyle
BEHIND THE SHADE: Arthur Morrison
SUGGESTION: ‘Mrs Ernest Leverson
TENTH LINK: https://cernzoo.wordpress.com/the-penguin-books-of-the-british-short-story/
Evelyn Sharp: In Dull Brown
T. Baron Russell: A Guardian of the Poor
AMY FOSTER by Joseph Conrad
H. G. Wells: The Magic Shop
M. R. James: The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
‘Saki’: The Unrest-Cure
THE HONOUR OF ISRAEL GOW by G.K. Chesterton
ENOCH SOAMES by Max Beerbohm
Arnold Bennett: The Matador of the Five Towns
D. H. Lawrence: Daughters of the Vicar
Rudyard Kipling: The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat
Stacy Aumonier: The Great Unimpressionable
Viola Meynell: The Letter
A. E. Coppard: Olive and Camilla
E. M. Delafield: Holiday Group
Dorothy Edwards: A Country House
John Buchan: The King of Ypres
ELEVENTH LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/12/26/the-penguin-book-of-the-contemporary-british-short-story/
SPARED by A. L. Kennedy
FUNNY LITTLE SNAKE by Tessa Hadley
COME RAIN OR COME SHINE by Kazuo Ishiguro
PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY by Jackie Kay
REMEMBER THIS by Graham Swift
DANGERS by Jane Gardam
THE UNIVERSAL STORY by Ali Smith
TROLL BRIDGE by Neil Gaiman
THE UNKNOWN KNOWN by Martin Amis
ENTRY TAKEN FROM A MEDICAL ENCYLCOPAEDIA by China Miéville
WINTER LUXURY PIE by Peter Hobbs
ALL THE BOYS by Thomas Morris
A NICE BUCKET by David Rose
CHAPTER 2 (from ALL THAT MAN IS) by David Szalay
CATHOLIC GUILT (YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT) by Irvine Welsh
TWELFTH LINK: https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2022/04/14/the-penguin-book-of-the-contemporary-british-short-story-part-two/
POISON by Lucy Caldwell
THE CLOSING DOOR by Rose Tremain
IF A BOOK IS LOCKED THERE’S PROBABLY A GOOD REASON FOR THAT, DON’T YOU THINK by Helen Oyeyemi
THE WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A RESTAURANT by Leone Ross
EVERY THIRD THOUGHT by Helen Simpson
MOONLIT LANDSCAPE WITH BRIDGE by Zadie Smith
THE ROCK OF CRACK AS BIG AS THE RITZ by Will Self
THE FALL OF MR AND MRS NICHOLSON by Gerard Woodward
justice for one by James Kelman
FLOTSAM, JETSAM, LAGAN, DERELICT by Lucy Wood
THE CLEAN SLATE by Hilary Mantel
Fears and Confessions of an Ortolan Chef by Eley Williams
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