On a recent visit to the Five Towns I was sitting with my old schoolmaster, who, by the ... Read more
English Short Stories
Total Stories: 71
I The tight hand was Mrs Garlick’s. A miser, she was not the ordinary miser, being exceptional in ... Read more
I Arthur Cotterill awoke. It was not exactly with a start that he awoke, but rather with a ... Read more
I was just going into my tailor’s in Sackville Street, when who should be coming out of the ... Read more
I They stood at the window of her boudoir in the new house which Stephen Cheswardine had recently ... Read more
I The secret history of the Ebag marriage is now printed for the first time. The Ebag family, ... Read more
The scene was the up-platform of Knype railway station on a summer afternoon, and, more particularly, that part ... Read more
I They all happened on the same day. And that day was a Saturday, the red Saturday on ... Read more
I It was considered by certain people to be a dramatic moment in the history of musical enterprise ... Read more
I The prologue to this somewhat dramatic history was of the simplest. The affair came to a climax, ... Read more
I All this happened at a Martinmas Fair in Bursley, long ago in the fifties, when everybody throughout ... Read more
When friends observed his occasional limp, Alderman Keats would say, with an air of false casualness, “Oh, a ... Read more