The Penguin Book of English Short Stories

Some of the stories in this collection — such as Well's The Country of the Blind and Joyce's The Dead — are classics; others - like Dickens's The Signalman and Lawrence's Fanny and Annie — are less well known. But all of them — whether funny, tragic, wry or fantastic - show their author at their concise best. Which makes this representative collection, at the very least, ferociously entertaining.