Books like The Penguin Book of English Short Stories

Spanning a fertile century in the life of the English short story.Some of the stories in this collection - such as Wells's 'The Country of the Blind' and Joyce's 'The Dead' - are classics; others like Dickens's 'The Signalman' and Lawrence's 'Fanny and Annie' - are less well known. But all of them - whether funny, tragic, wry or fantastic - show their authors at their concise best.Which makes this representative collection, at the very least, ferociously entertaining.Cover by Carroll & Dempsey Ltd shows a detail from 'The End of the Chapter' by Philip Wilson Steer, in Bradford City Art Gallery