false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175191044m/490395.jpg 490395 2 This anthology is in many was a 'best of the best', containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo. Above all, as you will discover, it satisfies Samuel Butler's anarchic pleasure principle: 'I should like to like Schumann's music better than I do; I daresay I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all...' 478626 1987 The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories total:19|5:5|4:7|3:6|2:1|1:0| 19 73 38 5 490395 0140063064 9780140063066 19 5 3.84 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175191044m/490395.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/490395.The_Penguin_Book_of_Modern_British_Short_Stories 4 1 false Thu Oct 22 08:35:21 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 08:54:46 -0700 2009
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