CONTENTSEditorial Foreword 7
Acknowledgements 9
Thomas Hardy(1840-1928) THE DISTRACTED PREACHER 11
Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936) WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR 71
T.F.Powys(1875-1953) THE BUCKET AND THE ROPE 105
E.M.Forster(1879-1970) THE ROAD FROM COLONUS 113
James Joyce(1882-1941) IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM 126
Virginia Woolf(1882-1941) THE MARK ON THE WALL 142
D.H.Lawrence(1885-1930) THE HORSE DEALER’S DAUGHTER 150
Katberine Mansfield(1888-1923) FEUILLE D’ALBUM 168
Joyce Cary(1888-1957) GOVERNMENT BABY 174
Robert Graves(1895- ) THE LOST CHINESE 194
V.S.Pritcbett(1900- ) HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES 215
Grabam Greene(1904- ) THE DESTRUCTORS 254
Angus Wilson(1913- ) AFTER THE SHOW 271
Muriel Spark(1918- ) YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE MESS 301
Kingsley Amis(1922- ) INTERESTING THINGS 308