- Published: 4 October 2018
- ISBN: 9780241307168
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story
- Published: 4 October 2018
- ISBN: 9780241307168
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
A bold anthology ... alive with provocations and insights
Praise for THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE BRITISH SHORT STORY, John Carey, Sunday Times
Hensher's anthology is bigger, better and broader in several senses than anything else currently available
Praise for THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE BRITISH SHORT STORY, The Spectator
Almost 100 potent doses of the form which editor Philip Hensher claims very plausibly to be "the richest, most varied and most historically extensive national tradition anywhere in the world"... Hensher has spent a couple of years searching libraries and magazine archives and comes out staggering under a weight of treasures
Praise for THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE BRITISH SHORT STORY, Claire Harman, Evening Standard
Like one of the legion of cantankerous, eccentric hosts we meet across this generous terrain, Hensher knows how to lay a grand spread...so enjoy the feast
Praise for THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE BRITISH SHORT STORY, Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
Anyone reading this collection just for pleasure should start at the end of the second volume and work backwards...it would quickly bring you to four outstanding stories by women...each of these, though quickly over, leaves a lasting mark in the mind
Praise for THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE BRITISH SHORT STORY, John Carey, The Sunday Times