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9780192142191

The Oxford Book of Historical Stories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780192142191

  • ISBN10:

    0192142194

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1995-04-06
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Historical fiction is as popular today as it was at its birth in the nineteenth century. The imaginative recreation of a period beyond living memory has a power to evoke the past better than any history text book. The stories in this collection travel in time from pre-history and the ancientGreeks to Regency bucks and Edwardian suffragettes, by way of medieval Europe, the English Civil War and the French Revolution. Emperors and kings, poets and soldiers walk these pages, in tales of intrigue, adventure, mystery, and romance. As well as the giants of the genre - Stanley Weyman, Rafael Sabatini, and Georgette Heyer among them - this anthology also includes tales by Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Aldous Huxley, William Faulkner, and Marjorie Bowen, and by writers from the golden age of the Victorian magazine. In their choices the editors demonstrate the vitality of a form that cuts across the boundaries of popular and literary fiction to appeal to anyone who enjoys a cracking good read.'History is too important to be left solely to historians. Or, to put it less provocatively, historical fiction shows that there are parts - important parts - of the experience of history that the professional historian cannot be expected to reach.' From the Introduction

Author Biography


About the Editors:
Michael Cox is the editor of such books as The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories and The Oxford Book of Victorian Detective Stories. Jack Adrian has compiled a number of anthologies, including The Fortunes of Casanova and Other Stories.

Table of Contents

The World Without Man
Overture
A Trooper of the Thessalians
Greek Meets Greek
Cottie Went to Bribracte
A Judgement of Tiberius
The Cupbearer
A Fragment of Medieval Life
The Death of Lully
Pretty Prickly English Rose
The Sacrist of Saint Radegund
A Lodging for the Night
Twilight
The Scapulary
The King's Stratagem
The Masque at Ludlow
Lord Jerningham
Iconoclasts
Mr Codesby's Behaviour
Mr Mitchelboure's Last Escapade
Martin's Close
The Emancipation of Mrs Morley
The Squire's Story
The Missing Shakespeare Manuscript
"My Dear Clarissa"
The Company of the Marjolaine
Words for Things
Two Good Patriots
A Committee Man of "The Terror"
Runaway Match
The Singular Adventure of a Small Free-Trader
How the Brigadier Played for a Kingdom
Catherine Carr
Wash
The Way We lived Then
An Edwardian Tableau
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