AnthologiesAchebe, Chinua, and Innes, C. L. (eds.). African Short Stories. London: Heinemann, 1985.
Achebe, Chinua and Innes, C. L.The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories. Oxford: Heinemann, 1992.
Atwood, Margaret, and Weaver, Robert (eds.). The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. Toronto and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Bradbury, Malcolm (ed.). The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988.
Byatt, A. S. (ed.). The Oxford Book of English Short Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Dolley, Christopher (ed.). The Penguin Book of English Short Stories. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.
Dunn, Douglas (ed.). The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Goldsworthy, Kerryn (ed.). Australian Short Stories. Melbourne and London: Dent, 1983.
Hudson, Derek (ed.). Modern English Short Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956.
Kravitz, Peter (ed.). The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. London: Picador, 1997.
O'Connor, Frank (ed.). Classic Irish Short Stories. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
O'Sullivan, Vincent (ed.). The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories. Auckland and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Trevor, William (ed.). The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Volumes of short stories by individual author, and related critical worksAchebe, ChinuaThe Sacrificial Egg and Other Short Stories. Omitsha: Etudo, 1962.
Girls at War and Other Stories. London: Heinemann, 1972.
Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays. London: Heinemann, 1988.
Carroll, David. Chinua Achebe: Novelist, Poet, Critic. Second edition. London: Macmillan, 1990.
Innes, C. L.Chinua Achebe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Barnard, MarjorieThe Persimmon Tree and Other Stories. Sydney: Clarendon, 1943; London: Virago, 1985.
Bennett, Bruce. Australian Short Fiction: A History. St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 2000.
Modjeska, Drusilla. Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925–1945. London and Sydney: Sirius, 1984.
Beckett, SamuelMore Pricks Than Kicks. London: Chatto and Windus, 1934; London: John Calder, 1970.
The Complete Short Prose, 1929–1989, ed. Gontarski, S. E.. New York: Grove, 1995.
Carey, Phyllis, and Jewinski, Ed (eds.), Re: Joyce'n Beckett. New York: Fordham University Press, 1992.
Cochran, Robert. Samuel Beckett: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1991.
Kenner, Hugh. A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.
Pilling, John. Beckett Before Godot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Bowen, ElizabethCollected Stories. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
Collected Impressions. London: Longmans, 1950.
After-Thought: Pieces About Writing. London: Longmans, 1962.
Bennett, Andrew, and Royle, Nicholas. Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995.
Ellmann, Maud. Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003.
Piette, Adam. Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry 1939–1945. London: Papermac, 1995.
Carter, AngelaBurning Your Boats: Stories. London: Chatto and Windus, 1995.
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings. London: Vintage, 1993.
Bristow, Joseph, and Broughton, Trev Lynn (eds.). The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: Fiction, Femininity, Feminism. London and New York: Longman, 1997.
Roemer, Danielle M., and Bacchilega, Christina. Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2001.
Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1994.
Sage, Lorna(ed.). Flesh and Mirror: Essays on the Art of Angela Carter. London: Virago, 1994.
Crackanthorpe, HubertWreckage: Seven Studies. London: William Heinemann, 1893.
Sentimental Studies and A Set of Village Tales. London: William Heinemann, 1895.
Last Studies. London: William Heinemann, 1897. (This edition includes an essay on Crackanthorpe by Henry James.)
Beckson, Karl. London in the 1890s: A Cultural History. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1992.
Crackanthorpe, David. Hubert Crackanthorpe and English Realism in the 1890s. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1977.
Conrad, JosephThe Complete Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad, ed. Samuel, Hynes. 2 vols. London: William Pickering, 1992.
Carabine, Keith. ‘Introduction’, in Joseph, Conrad, Selected Short Stories. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Edition, 1997, pp. ⅶ–ⅹⅹⅵ.
Erdinast-Vulcan, Daphna. The Strange Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Fraser, Gail. ‘The Short Fiction’, in Stape, J. H (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 25–44.
Dickens, CharlesSelected Short Fiction, ed. Deborah, A. Thomas. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
Orel, Harold. The Victorian Short Story: Development and Triumph of a Literary Genre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Smith, Grahame. Charles Dickens: A Literary Life. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
Thomas, Deborah A.Dickens and the Short Story. London: Batsford, 1982.
Egerton, George (Mary Chavelita Dunne)Keynotes and Discords. London: Virago, 1983. (First published London: Matthews and Lane, 1893 and Boston: Roberts Bros., 1894.)
A Leaf from The Yellow Book: The Correspondence of George Egerton, ed. Terence, Vere White. London: The Richards Press, 1958.
Chrisman, Laura. ‘Empire, “Race” and Feminism at the Fin de Siècle: The Work of George Egerton and Olive Schreiner’, in Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken (eds.), Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 45–65.
Cunningham, Gail. ‘“He-Notes”: Reconstructing Masculinity’, in Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis (eds.), The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin de Siècle Feminisms. Basingstoke and London: Palgrave, 2001, pp. 94–106.
Hardy, ThomasWessex Tales. London and New York: Macmillan, 1888.
Life's Little Ironies. London and New York: Macmillan, 1894.
Selected Stories of Thomas Hardy, ed. John, Wain. London: Papermac, 1966.
Brady, Kristin. The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy. Basingstoke and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1982.
Orel, Harold. The Victorian Short Story: Development and Triumph of a Literary Genre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Joyce, JamesDubliners. London: Grant Richards, 1914; London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.
Bloom, Harold (ed.). James Joyce's Dubliners: Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.
Bollettieri, Bosinelli, Rosa, M., and Mosher, Harold F. Jr (eds.). ReJoycing: New Readings of Dubliners. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1998, pp. 13–40.
Gottfried, Roy. ‘“Scrupulous Meanness” Reconsidered: Dubliners as Stylistic Parody’, in Vincent, J. Cheng (ed.), Joyce in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 153–69.
Head, Dominic. The Modernist Short Story: A Study in Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Leonard, Garry. Reading Dubliners Again: A Lacanian Perspective. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.
McCabe, Colin. James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979.
Mullin, Katherine. ‘Don't Cry for Me, Argentina: “Eveline” and the Seductions of Emigration Propaganda’, in Derek, Attridge and Marjorie, Howes (eds.), Semicolonial Joyce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 172–200.
Kelman, JamesNot Not While the Giro and Other Stories. London: Polygon, 1983.
Greyhound for Breakfast. London: Secker and Warburg, 1987.
The Burn. London: Secker and Warburg, 1991.
The Good Times and Other Stories. London: Secker and Warburg, 1998.
Some Recent Attacks: Essays Cultural and Political. Stirling: A. K. Press, 1992.
‘And the Judges Said–’: Essays. London: Secker and Warburg, 2002.
Craig, Cairns. The Modern Scottish Novel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
Klaus, H. Gustav. James Kelman. Tavistock: Northcote, 2004.
Kipling, RudyardCollected Stories, ed. Robert, Gottlieb. London: D. Campbell, 1994.
Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings, ed. Thomas, Pinney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Kemp, Sandra. Kipling's Hidden Narratives. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
Mallett, Phillip. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Sullivan, Zohreh. Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
McEwan, IanFirst Love, Last Rites. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975.
In Between the Sheets. London: Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Childs, Peter (ed.). The Fiction of Ian McEwan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Malcolm, David. Understanding Ian McEwan. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.
Ryan, Kiernan. Ian McEwan. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1994.
Slay, Jack. Ian McEwan. New York: Twayne; London: Prentice Hall, 1996.
Mansfield, KatherineThe Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield. London: Constable, 1945; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
Dunbar, Pamela. Radical Mansfield: Double Discourse in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997.
Kaplan, Sydney Janet. Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Smith, Angela. Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of Two. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
Smith, AngelaKatherine Mansfield: A Literary Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000.
Morrison, ArthurTales of Mean Streets. London: Methuen, 1894.
‘What is a Realist?’, New Review (March 1897): 326–36.
Greenfield, John. ‘Arthur Morrison's Sherlock Clone: Martin Hewitt, Victorian Values, and London Magazine Culture, 1894–1903’, Victorian Periodicals Review 35, 1 (2002): 18–36.
Keating, P. J.The Working Classes in Victorian Fiction. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971.
Munro, AliceDance of the Happy Shades. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1968.
The Moons of Jupiter. London: Allen Lane, 1982.
The Progress of Love. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986.
Friend of My Youth. London: Chatto and Windus, 1990.
Open Secrets. London: Chatto and Windus, 1994.
The Love of a Good Woman. London: Chatto and Windus, 1998.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. London: Chatto and Windus, 2001.
Runaway. London: Chatto and Windus, 2005.
Heble, Ajay. The Tumble of Reason: Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Howells, Coral Ann. Alice Munro. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998.
Thacker, Robert (ed.). The Rest of the Story: Critical Essays on Alice Munro. Toronto: ECW Press, 1999.
O'Connor, FrankThe Stories of Frank O'Connor. New York: Knopf, 1952.
My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories, ed. Julian, Barnes. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005.
An Only Child. London: Macmillan, 1961.
The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story. London: Macmillan, 1963.
My Father's Son. London: Macmillan, 1968.
Lennon, Hilary (ed.). Frank O'Connor: New Critical Essays. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007.
O'Faolain, SeanStories of Sean O'Faolain. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
Selected Stories of Sean O'Faolain. London: Constable, 1978.
The Short Story. London: Collins, 1948; revised, 1972.
Harmon, Maurice. Sean O'Faolain: A Life. London: Constable, 1994.
Storey, Michael. ‘“Not To Be Written Afterwards”: The Irish Revolution on the Irish Short Story’, Eire-Ireland: Journal of Irish Studies 28, 1 (1998): 32–47.
Pritchett, V. S.Collected Stories. London: Chatto and Windus, 1982.
The Complete Essays. London: Chatto and Windus, 1991.
Treglown, Jeremy. V. S. Pritchett: A Working Life. London: Chatto and Windus, 2004.
Wood, James. ‘V. S. Pritchett and English Comedy’, in Zachary, Leader (ed.), On Modern British Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 8–19.
Sargeson, FrankThe Stories of Frank Sargeson. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1974.
Conversation in a Train and Other Critical Writing, ed. Kevin, Cunningham. Auckland: Auckland University Press; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
King, Michael. Frank Sargeson: A Life. London: Viking/Allen Lane, 1995.
Lay, Graeme, and Stratford, Stephen (eds.). An Affair of the Heart: A Celebration of Frank Sargeson's Centenary. Auckland: Cape Catley, 2003.
Murray, Stuart. Never a Soul at Home: New Zealand Literary Nationalism and the 1930s. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1998.
Woolf, VirginiaThe Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, ed. Susan, Dick. London: Hogarth Press, 1985; revised and expanded, 1989.
Beer, Gillian. Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.
Hanson, Clare. Virginia Woolf. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994.
Roe, Sue, and Sellers, Susan (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Smith, Angela. Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of Two. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
Snaith, Anna. Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
General critical works on the short storyAllen, Walter. The Short Story in English. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.
Aycock, Wendell M.The Teller and the Tale: Aspects of the Short Story. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1982.
Bates, H. E.The Modern Short Story: A Critical Survey. London: Thomas Nelson, 1941.
Bayley, John. The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen. Brighton: Harvester, 1988.
Burke, Daniel. Beyond Interpretation: Studies in the Modern Short Story. New York: Whitston, 1991.
Flora, Joseph M. (ed.). The English Short Story 1880–1945: A Critical History. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985.
Hanson, Clare. Short Stories and Short Fictions: 1880–1980. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985.
Hanson, Clareed. Re-Reading the Short Story. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989.
Head, Dominic. The Modernist Short Story: A Study in Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Lohafer, Susan. Coming to Terms with the Short Story. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
Lohafer, Susanand Clary, Jo Ellen, eds. Short Story Theory at a Crossroads. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
May, Charles. The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice. New York: Twayne, 1995.
May, Charlesed. The New Short Story Theories. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1994.
O'Connor, Frank. The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story. London: Macmillan, 1963.
O'Faolain, Sean. The Short Story. London: Collins, 1948.
Reid, Ian. The Short Story. London and New York: Routledge, 1977.
Shaw, Valerie. The Short Story: A Critical Introduction. London and New York: Longman, 1983.
