Selected Stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Art or artists, Marriage, Brothers and sisters, Incest, Death or dying, Wit or humor, Composers, Fairies
Form and Content
This selection by Sylvia Townsend Warner’s literary executors of forty-five of her short stories is taken from a period of forty-five years of her work, from 1932 to 1977. It represents only a small fraction of Warner’s output of short stories, which runs to fifteen volumes. At least one story is included from each of her volumes, starting with The Salutation (1932) and concluding with the posthumously published One Thing Leading to Another (1984).
According to William Maxwell—who was Warner’s editor at the The New Yorker,...
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