TY - BOOK AU - Hensher,Philip TI - The Penguin book of the British short story T2 - Penguin classics SN - 9780141396002 (pbk.) : AV - PR1309.S5 PY - 2016/// CY - UK PB - Penguin Books KW - Short stories, English KW - General KW - ukslc KW - Short Stories N1 - Originally published: 2015 N2 - This anthology celebrates the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones, from the story's origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding, to the 'golden age' of the fin de si�ecle and Edwardian period, ending with the First World War. Including the most famous authors as well as some little-known stories never republished since their first appearance in magazines and periodicals, these stories are by turns topical and playful, ghostly and theatrical, rumbustious and sublime ER -