The Persephone Book of Short Stories by E.M. Delafield, Penelope Fitzgerald, Mollie Panter-Downes, Helen R. Hull, Frances Towers, Irène Némirovsky, Susan Glaspell, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Pauline Smith, Dorothy Whipple, Diana Gardner, Norah Hoult, Diana Athill, Penelope Mortimer, Phyllis Bentley, Georgina Hammick, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Berridge, Kay Boyle, Malachi Whitaker, Shirley Jackson, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Spencer, Betty Miller, Margaret Bonham, Angelica Gibbs

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477 pages • paperback • first pub 2012 • 3 editions

fiction classics short stories challenging informative slow-paced

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Most of these stories focus on the small, quiet or unspoken intricacies of human relationships rather than grand dramas. The use of metaphor is delicate and subtle; often the women are strong and capable and the men less so; shallow and selfish mo...