"A brilliantly original selection ...
One of its best features is that it concentrates on
the past more than the present."
-Philip Rahv
Great
Short
English
Novels
Edited and with an Introduction
by
CYRIL CONNOLLY
It is with considerable pride that The Dial Press pub–
lishes GREAT ENGLISH SHORT NOVELS, the fourteenth
title in
The Permanent Library.
Edited by the noted
English critic and author, this book includes such
generally unavailable masterpieces as Maria Edge–
worth's
Castle Rackrent,
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's
The Room in the Dragon Volant,
George Eliot's
The
Lifted Veil
and Virginia Woolf's
Between the Acts.
A Permanent Library Book
Eleven novels
896 pages
$6.00
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