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The Best British Short Stories
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"No. Ought I to?"
"Not on the bench?"
"Martlow? Yes, now I think of the name in connection with the old days, there was a drunken fellow. To be sure, an awful blackguard, continually before the bench. Dear me! Well, well, but a man is not responsible for his undesirable relations, I hope."
"No, sir. But that was Martlow. The same man. You really can't speak to Calderside of his as an ennobling life and a great example. The war changed him, but—well, in peace, Tim was absolutely the local bad man, and they all know it. I thought you did, or——"
Sir William turned a face expressive of awe-struck wonder. "Fosdike," he said with deep sincerity, "this is the most amazing thing I've heard of the war. I never connected Martlow the hero. . . Read More
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I got this book in a box of old books from a friend. Being short stories, and of an earlier time, I thought it might be interesting. And it was.
The stories were published between July 1921 and June 1922. Yup, 100 years ago. I find it interesting the different story lines, descriptions of surrounding
This fascinating little collection provides a peek back into the worldviews and literary currents of Britain in the early 1920s. So many things -- mindsets, assumptions, commonplace objects -- which we now take for granted didn't exist, and so many things which we've now forgotten did. The stories a
For me, this was a study of how I felt these stories held up over time. I can't imagine choosing any of them as the best of 2010. But, given the context of time, I found them entertaining.