The Best British Short Stories of 1922

By: John Cournos, Edward O'Brien

Narrated by: Christianne Lupher, Alan Weyman, Sara Morsey, Sarah Bacaller, Michelle Marie

An anthology selected and edited by Edward J. O’Brien and John Cournos with an introduction by John Cournos and Edward O'Brien.

• "Where Was Wych Street" by Stacy Aumonier
• "The Looking Glass" by J.D. Beresford
• "The Olive" by Algernon Blackwood
• "Once a Hero" by Harold Brighouse
• "The Pensioner" by William Caine
• "Broadsheet Ballad" by A.E. Coppard
• "Seaton's Aunt" by Walter de la Mare
• "The Reaper" by Dorothy Eaton
• "The Song" by Mary Edginton
• "A Hedonist" by John Galsworthy
• "The Bat and Belfry Inn" by Alan Graham
• "The Lie" by Holloway Horn
• "A Girl in It" by Rowland Kenney
• "The Backstairs of the Mind" by Rosamond Langbridge
• "The Birth of a Masterpiece" by Lucas Malet
• "Genius" by Elinor Mordaunt
• "The Devil to Pay" by Max Pemberton
• "Empty Arms" by Roland Pertwee
• "Lena Wrace" by May Sinclair
• "The Dice Thrower" by Sidney Southgate
• "The Stranger Woman" by G.B.Stern
• "The Woman Who Sat Still" by Parry Truscott
• "Major Wilbraham" by Hugh Walpole

Narrated by Christianne Lupher, Alan Weyman, Sara Morsey, Sarah Bacaller, and Michelle Marie.

Public Domain (P)2018 Voices of Today

A sometimes humorous, sometimes pathetic, and sometimes creepy collection of stories

A fascinating peek back into the Britain of 1922, through the stories they themselves wrote and chose.