Shorts Stories from England

Revered as novelists, great English writers often have given less attention to the short story than their counterparts in America, Ireland, or Russia. As we move “across the pond” in our ongoing exploration of the art of the story, we will delve into The Oxford Book of English Short Stories and discuss some of the finest examples of essential and lesser-known England-grown storytellers of the last 150 years: Dickens, Kipling, Hardy, Woolf, Waugh, Huxley, and many more. Participants read the stories in advance, then we discuss them within the context of their time, investigating both their “Englishness” and their universal themes. There is no prerequisite.