The Best British Short Stories of 1922

By Algernon Blackwood, Alan Graham, John Galsworthy, May Edginton, Dorothy Easton, Walter de La Mare, Richmal Crompton, William Caine, Harold Brighouse, J.D. Beresford, Stacy Aumonier, Holloway Horn, Rowland Kenney, Alfred Edgar Coppard, Hugh Sir Walpole, L. Parry Truscott, Gladys Bronwyn Stern, Thomas Moult, May Sinclair, Roland Pertwee, Max Sir Pemberton, Elinor Mordaunt, Lucas Malet, Rosamond Langbridge & John Cournos

The Best British Short Stories of 1922 - Algernon Blackwood, Alan Graham, John Galsworthy, May Edginton, Dorothy Easton, Walter de La Mare, Richmal Crompton, William Caine, Harold Brighouse, J.D. Beresford, Stacy Aumonier, Holloway Horn, Rowland Kenney, Alfred Edgar Coppard, Hugh Sir Walpole, L. Parry Truscott, Gladys Bronwyn Stern, Thomas Moult, May Sinclair, Roland Pertwee, Max Sir Pemberton, Elinor Mordaunt, Lucas Malet, Rosamond Langbridge & John Cournos
  • Release Date: 2012-07-24
  • Genre: Short Stories

Description

When Edward J. O'Brien asked me to cooperate with him in choosing each year's best English short stories, to be published as a companion volume to his annual selection of the best American short stories, I had not realized that at the end of my arduous task, which has involved the reading of many hundreds of stories in the English magazines of an entire year, I should find myself asking the simple question: What is a short story?