Tag: short story

• Short Story Sunday: Forbidden Love

  It’s Sunday, so it’s short story time again, and this week I’ve abandoned Persephone for Virago and I’m dipping into Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Selected Short Stories, which are every bit as wonderful as I hoped they would be. These tales, written between 1932 and 1977, are as sharply subversive as her other work led me…

  chrisharding53

  September 8, 2013

  http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, short story, short story Sunday, Sylvia Townsend Warner

• A Little Less Conversation Please!

  Edward Hopper’s Room in New York… And there is a link to this week’s Short Story Sunday, I promise… Just read on… It’s Sunday again (it does seem to come round very quickly), and that means it’s time for another short story, so out of my wonderful Persephone anthology comes Here We Are, by Dorothy…

  chrisharding53

  June 30, 2013

  Edward Hopper, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, marriage, Persephone Books, short story, short story Sunday, train

• Short Story Sunday

  Time for Short Story Sunday again, and I will start by saying I absolutely hated this week’s offering, and had it been the first tale in The Persephone Book of Short Stories I doubt I would have read any further. Fortunately it’s story number two, and ahead of me lie Dorothy Whipple, EM Delafield, Edith…

  chrisharding53

  May 26, 2013

  http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Katherine Mansfield, short story, The Black Cap, The Persephone Book of Short Stories