Introduced by Jekwu Anyaegbuna The first reaction that comes with being asked to recommend a classic short story is befuddlement because...

Introduced by Elizabeth Baines When I reread Dubliners recently, I was struck by how strongly my own writing has been influenced by this...

Introduced by Wiz Wharton Beyond the physical act of getting words on a page, a writer’s process is a nebulous thing. I suspect most of...

Introduced by Rosemary Jenkinson 'The Happy Prince' is in many ways a prophecy of Oscar Wilde’s own life; a glittering golden son of...

Introduced by Laurence Miall In the 1990s and early 2000’s, as an English literature professor at the University of Alberta in western...

Introduced by Mandira Pattnaik I can’t really pinpoint why I’m attracted to Dubliners and Joyce so much. It could be the way the city...

Translated and introduced by Vijay Khurana Introduction The body is too often neglected in fiction, with writers eliding not only its...

Introduction by Kate Ellis I chose this story because The Dubliners was one of few books on my short story shelf whose author died before...

Introduction by Judith Wilson ‘The Mark on The Wall’ was Virginia Woolf’s first published short story, appearing alongside one of Leonard...

Introduction by Sonia Overall On the surface, ‘The Tarn’ is a tale of literary rivalry and revenge. The protagonist, Fenwick, is bitter...

Introduction by Jim Toal I come from north-east England; an area once dominated by the coal mining industry. Like Lawrence, my father was...

Introduced by Kerry Hood It was always going to be Woolf. Despite our tricky relationship (especially around her depiction of...

Introduction by Katie Oliver When asked to introduce a classic short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an...

Introduction by Dan Coxon That Montague Rhodes James was one of the finest writers of supernatural fiction we’ve ever had is surely now...

Introduction by Melissa Llanes Brownlee When I first read “Araby” over twenty years ago, I was shocked that it had been published in 1914....

Introduction by Emma Timpany The inspiration for ‘A Haunted House’ came from Asheham, the house near the South Downs where Virginia and...

Introduction by Lucie Elven The elements of ‘The Student’ – short for Chekhov, and his favourite of his own stories – are simple: three...

Introduction by Sheila Armstrong I love markets. Picking through the debris of other people’s lives. Finding a trinket that burns with...

Introduction by Toby Litt Perhaps Henry James’ moment is gone – because it is a long moment. If you’re going to enter a story like ‘The...

Introduction by Giselle Leeb I discovered this story in ‘Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature (Ed. Alberto Manguel)’, which...