Four Penguin Short Story Anthologies edited by Philip Hensher linked and listed to my real-time reviews of them…

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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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