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The Best British Short Stories of 1922

By: John Cournos, Edward O'Brien
Narrated by: Christianne Lupher, Alan Weyman, Sara Morsey, Sarah Bacaller, Michelle Marie
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An anthology selected and edited by Edward J. O’Brien and John Cournos with an introduction by John Cournos and Edward O'Brien.

  • "Where Was Wych Street" by Stacy Aumonier
  • "The Looking Glass" by J.D. Beresford
  • "The Olive" by Algernon Blackwood
  • "Once a Hero" by Harold Brighouse
  • "The Pensioner" by William Caine
  • "Broadsheet Ballad" by A.E. Coppard
  • "Seaton's Aunt" by Walter de la Mare
  • "The Reaper" by Dorothy Eaton
  • "The Song" by Mary Edginton
  • "A Hedonist" by John Galsworthy
  • "The Bat and Belfry Inn" by Alan Graham
  • "The Lie" by Holloway Horn
  • "A Girl in It" by Rowland Kenney
  • "The Backstairs of the Mind" by Rosamond Langbridge
  • "The Birth of a Masterpiece" by Lucas Malet
  • "Genius" by Elinor Mordaunt
  • "The Devil to Pay" by Max Pemberton
  • "Empty Arms" by Roland Pertwee
  • "Lena Wrace" by May Sinclair
  • "The Dice Thrower" by Sidney Southgate
  • "The Stranger Woman" by G.B.Stern
  • "The Woman Who Sat Still" by Parry Truscott
  • "Major Wilbraham" by Hugh Walpole

Narrated by Christianne Lupher, Alan Weyman, Sara Morsey, Sarah Bacaller, and Michelle Marie.

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A sometimes humorous, sometimes pathetic, and sometimes creepy collection of stories

A fascinating peek back into the Britain of 1922, through the stories they themselves wrote and chose.

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