Masterpieces of the English Short Novel

First Skyhorse/Arcade paperback edition 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Masterpieces of the English short novel : nine complete short novels / Kenneth H. Brown, editor. -- First Skyhorse/Arcade paperback edition.

pages cm

“A Herman Graf book”

ISBN 978-1-62872-443-1 (pbk.)

1. English fiction. I. Brown, Kenneth H., editor.

PR1285.M354 2014

823.008--dc23

2014034597

Cover design by Richard Rossiter

Print ISBN: 978-1-62872-443-1

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-62872-472-1

Printed in the United States of America