'Excellent entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle this fine
anthology celebrates one of the richest moments in Britain's literary history' Sunday Times The
quarter century between 1890 and the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom
in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain fuelled by a large eager new
magazine readership. The great writers of the age produced some of their finest work and
literary genres - the ghost story science fiction - took shape. This richly varied endlessly
entertaining anthology brings together authors from Katherine Mansfield to Rudyard Kipling
James Joyce to Saki H. G. Wells to Rebecca West. It celebrates a teeming innovative world of
literary achievement. Edited with an introduction by Philip Hensher
