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... his preface to Collected Stories (Duckworth and Macmillan 25s.) Sir Osbert Sitwell suggests that possibly the novel is not an art form, but the short story is. One might argue that this depends on what you call a short story. Triple Fugue in ...
... The spectre the rose J.11M lg| IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM AS A LONG SHORT STORY, later as a play, and more recently as a film (The Innocents) Henry James's The Turn of the Screw retained its power to chill. Now Benjamin Britten's operatic version is in the ...
... are reprinted from magazines in which they have appeared over the last 1.5 years, in America. Elliott Grennard's fiction short story is the high spot of the book, but there are inter esting articles by Otis Ferguson, George Frazier, Lillian Ross's naive ...
... BY ANTHONY COOKMAN THE ODDS AGAINST A SUCCESSFUL stage adaptation of The Aspern Papers-- that intensely character istic short story by Henry James of a literary misadventure taking place in a wonderfully described Venice-- were, one would have said, f ...
... test of a collection of antiques and essays so diverse and so short as those which make up the late Sir Desmond MacCarthy's HUMANITIES (McGibbon and Kee; 15s.). But in his case their shortness merely makes us regret that the occasion of their writing did ...
... apprentice at the time of the Peasants' Revolt for which the children seem to have no fancy, and a bizarre assortment of old short- story magazines which have now stopped publication, left behind by guests long since departed the hotel, if not this life. Luckier ...
... Everyone in the world who reads short stories in magazines m st know by now exactly what one means by just like a short story in the New Yorker. And absolutely the only thing I have about Nero Yorl r short ...
... fully written and truly unnerving ghost story by Shirley Jackson, who most often writes about wild, unghostly home life with the Jackson children but will be remem bered for her one flawless and horrifying short story The Lottery, which remains her single ...
... elbow and was not inventing his story as he went along. Mr. William Saroyan, the Ameri can short story writer and play wright, has gone one better than the imaginary Shakespeare. He is said to have improvised a stage story complete with dialogue for the ...
... coffee and brandy Inside Daisy Clover by Gavin Lambert is the short story of a one-time Hollywood child star, told by herself, and though Mr. Lambert who wrote some admirable Hollywood stories called The Slide Area has the gentlest ear for Daisy's speech ...
... 12s. 6 d.) is a collection of short stories. Let 's be clear about this short stories are not, dear reader, novelists' by-products, dashed off in lighter moments to placate magazines or increase bank balances Short- ...
... prolific and rewarding enjoyment in the short story as Doris Lessing. She excels principally in two settings: London-fringe-Bohemian and Southern African. The latter is now handsomely served in African Stories (Michael Joseph 30s.), an accumulation of ...