Present laughter : an anthology of modern comic fiction /
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| Language: | English |
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London:
Weinfeld & Nicolson,
1994
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Table of Contents:
- The Tillotson Banquet/ Aldous Huxley
- The Waltz/ Dorothy Parker
- Excursion in Reality/ Evelyn Waugh
- Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote/ Jorge Luis Borges
- The Assistant Producer/ Vladimir Nabokov
- Gimpel the Fool/ Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Wrong Set/ Angus Wilson
- The Champion of the World/ Roald Dahl
- Interesting Things/ Kinglsey Amis
- A Member of the Family/ Muriel Spark
- The Bulgarian Poetess/ John Updike
- My Vocation/ Mary Lavin
- To London and Rome/ Donald Barthelme
- Uncle Vlad/ Clive Sinclair
- Nobody Will Laugh/ Milan Kundera
- The Longstop/ Beryl Bainbridge
- American Dreams/ Peter Carey
- The Kitchen Child/ Angela Carter
- The Kugelmass Episode/ Woody Allen
- Lantern Lecture/ Adam Mars-Jones
- Lives of the Poets/ Margaret Atwood
- The Royal Family/ Garrison Keillor
- Modern Love/ T. Goraghessan Boyle
- The Stolen Child/ Clare Boylan
- The New Baboon/ Andrew Davies
- An Outer London Childchood/ Suzannah Dunn
- Schoom/ Jonathan Wilson
- Career Move/ Martin Amis
- A Short History of the English Novel/ Will Self