PLOMER, William - Selected Stories - (Paperback)

Still in very good condition.   >>>   In his introduction Professor Stephen Gray writes: "This collection brings back into print for the first time in many years all the major African stories Plomer wrote from 1926-33, and hence most of his important short fiction. Thereafter I have chosen a few representative stories of his later periods, and allowed the collection to close with his final story of 1956...The return of these stories in the Plomer canon to the reader, in Southern Africa and elsewhere, should help to establish his status more firmly than ever, and find a new generation of readers who, since his death in 1973, might have heard - but are not really sure - that William Plomer is one of the finest and most influential short-story writers South Africa has produced.     >>>    William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE (10 December 1903 20 September 1973) was a South African and British novelist, poet and literary editor. He also wrote a series of librettos for Benjamin Britten. He wrote some of his poetry under the pseudonym Robert Pagan.   -   Born of British parents in Transvaal Colony, he moved to England in 1929 after spending a few years in Japan.  Although not as well known as many of his peers, he is recognized as a modernist and his work was highly esteemed by other writers, including Virginia Woolf and Nadine Gordimer. He was homosexual, and at least one of his novels portrays a gay relationship but whether he lived as openly gay himself is unclear.          * Short Stories *

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