Some of the stories in this collection - such as Wells's The Country of the Blind and Joyce's The Dead - are classics; others - like Dickens's The Signalman and Lawrence's Fanny and Annie - are less well known. But all of them - whether funny, tragic, wry or fantastic - show their authors at their concise best. Which makes this representative collection, at the very least, ferociously entertaining. 
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