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

The Persephone Book of Short Stories

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

477 pages • first pub 2012 (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...

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