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Wells's Short Stories: "The Country of the Blind" and "The Door in the Wall"; 15: D.H. Lawrence's Short Stories: "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" and "The Rocking Horse Winner"; 16: Virginia Woolf: "Kew Gardens" and "The Legacy"; 17: Katherine Mansfield: "The Garden Party" and "Marriage a? la Mode" 327 $a18: Frank O'Connor: "Guests of the Nation" and "My Oedipus Complex"19: The Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty; 20: W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden Stories; 21: Elizabeth Bowen: "The Demon Lover" and "Mysterious Ko?r"; Part II: 1945-the Present; Introduction; 22: The British and Irish Short Story: 1945-Present; Topics and Genres; 23: New Identities: The Irish Short Story since 1945; 24: Redefining Englishness: British Short Fiction from 1945 to the Present; 25: Scottish Short Stories (post 1945) 327 $a26: Hybrid Voices and Visions: The Short Stories of E.A. Markham, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Patricia Duncker, and Jackie Kay27: The Anglo-Jewish Short Story since the Holocaust; 28: Feminist Voices: Women's Short Fiction after 1945; 29: British Gay and Lesbian Short Stories; 30: Science Fiction and Fantasy after 1945: Beyond Pulp Fiction; 31: Experimental Short Fiction in Britain since 1945; Reading Individual Authors and Texts; 32: The Short Stories of Julian Maclaren-Ross; 33: Alan Sillitoe: "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" 327 $a34: The Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor35: The Short Fiction of V.S. 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