535 pages
English language
Published Sept. 25, 1999 by Little, Brown, and Co..
535 pages
English language
Published Sept. 25, 1999 by Little, Brown, and Co..
A book of brilliant entertainments: thirty-nine stories spanning the entire career of a great modern writer and an undisputed comic genius, "a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Poe, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters" (Time).
The stories. The balance A house of gentlefolks The manager of "The Kremlin" Love in the slump Too much tolerance Excursion in Reality Incident in Azania Bella Fleace gave a party Cruise The man who liked Dickens Out of depth By special request Period piece On guard Mr. Loveday's little outing Winner takes all An Englishman's home The sympathetic passenger My father's house Lucy Simmonds Charles Ryder's schooldays Scott-King's modern Europe Tactical exercise Compassion Love among the ruins Basil Seal rides again Juvenilia. The curse of the horse race Fidon's confetion Multa pecunia Fragment of a novel Essay The house : an anti-climax …
A book of brilliant entertainments: thirty-nine stories spanning the entire career of a great modern writer and an undisputed comic genius, "a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Poe, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters" (Time).
The stories. The balance A house of gentlefolks The manager of "The Kremlin" Love in the slump Too much tolerance Excursion in Reality Incident in Azania Bella Fleace gave a party Cruise The man who liked Dickens Out of depth By special request Period piece On guard Mr. Loveday's little outing Winner takes all An Englishman's home The sympathetic passenger My father's house Lucy Simmonds Charles Ryder's schooldays Scott-King's modern Europe Tactical exercise Compassion Love among the ruins Basil Seal rides again Juvenilia. The curse of the horse race Fidon's confetion Multa pecunia Fragment of a novel Essay The house : an anti-climax --
Oxford stories. Portrait of young man with career ; Antony, who sought things that were lost ; Edward of unique achievement ; Fragments : they dine with the past ; Conspiracy to murder ; Unacademic exercise : a nature story ; The national game.