CONTENTSEditorial Foreword 7
Acknowledgements 9
Charles Dickens(1812-70) THE SIGNALMAN 11
Thomas Hardy(1840-1928) THE WITHERED ARM 25
Joseph Conrad(1857-1924) AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS 56
Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936) AT THE END OF THE PASSAGR 82
H.G.Wells(1866-1946) THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND 103
W.Somerset Maugham(1874-1965) THE FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCR 129
James Joyce(1882-1941) THE DEAD 157
Virginia Woolf(1882-1941) KEW GARDENS 201
D.H.Lawrence(1885-1930) FANNY AND ANNIE 208
Katherine Mansfield(1888-1923) THE VOYAGE 224
Joyce Cary(1888-1957) THE BREAKOUT 233
Aldous Huxley(1894-1963) THE GIOCONDA SMILE 251
V.S.Pritcbett(1900- ) THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT 283
Evelyn Waugh(1903-66) MR LOVEDAY’S LITTLE OUTING 293
Graham Greene(1904-91) ACROSS THE BRIDGE 302
Angus Wilson(1913-91) RASPBERRY JAM 313