Introduction / A.S. Byatt
The Sacristan of St. Botolph / William Gilbert
The haunted house / Charles Dickens
Relics of General Chasse : A tale of Antwerp / Anthony Trollope
A mere interlude / Thomas Hardy
Little brother / Mary Mann
Behind the shade / Arthur Morrison
'Wireless' / Rudyard Kipling
Under the knife / H.G. Wells
A white night / Charlotte Mew
The tremendous adventures of Major Brown / G.K. Chesterton
Some talk of Alexander / A.E. Coppard
The reverent wooing of Archibald / P.G. Wodehouse
Solid objects / Virginia Woolf
The man who loved islands / D.H. Lawrence
A tragedy in green / Ronald Firbank
A widow's quilt / Sylvia Townsend Warner
Nuns at luncheon / Aldous Huxley
Landlord of the crystal fountain / Malachi Whitaker
On the edge of the cliff / V.S. Prichett
A dream of winter / Rosamund Lehmann
An Englishman's home / Evelyn Waugh
The destructors / Graham Greene
The waterfall / H.E. Bates
The blush / Elizabeth Taylor
At Hiruharama / Penelope Fitzgerald
My flannel knickers / Leonora Carrington
Enoch's two letters / Alan Sillitoe
Dream cargoes / J.G. Ballard
The beauty of the dawn shift / Rose Tremain
Solid geometry / Ian McEwan
Dead languages / Philip Hensher.
