English Short Stories of To-day (Oxford ed.), A man for all seasons and Penguin plays - 4 Comedies

English Short Stories of Today 

published by Oxford University Press - sixth impression 1950.

13 short stories, fabric softcover, 254 pp inclusive of biographical notes. Book is well bound and for it's age in excellent condition, pages are lightly yellowed, pencil notes here and there. 

This is the first volume of a four-volume collection of English short stories demonstrating the excellence and variety of short fiction written in the English language during the 20th century. Each volume covers a different period and represents the most distinguished writers of their day.

The first volume: The Dragon's Head, covers the period between the turn of the century and the outbreak of the Second World War. No other collection of English short stories concentrates on this period. It includes stories by Stella Benson, John Galsworthy, Richard Hughes, M.R. James, Somerset Maugham, Leonard Merrick, Naomi Mitchison, Geoffrey Moss, Saki, Frank O'Connor, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sir Hugh Walpole, and H.G. Wells.

A Man for all Seasons a play of Sir Thomas Moore - A play in two acts.

by Robert Bolt with notes by E.R. Wood

Published: Heinemann Educational Books

ISBN: 0435221000 - 1989 edition, softcover, 99 pp. 

Used neat copy, few penciled notes, pages still quite white. 

Penguin Plays - Four English Comedies of the 17th and 18th Centuries.

This edition published 1971, paperback, discarded library book, pages tanned, book good.

The 4 plays: Volpone - Jonson

             The Way of the World - Congreve

             She Stoops to Conquer - Goldsmith

             The School for Scandal - Sheridan

Synopsis: 

The aim of the volume is to offer a selection of long-established and well-loved classics which provide examples of the wide range and quality of English comedy in the 17th and 18th centuries. From the height of 17th century drama comes Ben Jonson's "Volpone", a biting satire on human cupidity; while the urbane social comedy of the restoration is represented by Congreve's "The Way of the World", where manners and attitudes provide the comedy and style and elegance adorn the language. Finally, from the glittering age of the 18th century come plays from Sheridan and Goldsmith, the two rumbustious comedies, "The School For Scandal" and "She Stoops to Conquer"