Short Stories: United Kingdom Authors

Busse Library provides these webpages for students and faculty seeking information on short stories and their writers from around the world. Authors are listed alphabetically. Resources reflect online ready-reference and short story research websites. A listing of sample Busse Library materials is included.

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Beckett to Dickens -- Doyle to Joyce -- Kipling to O'Brien -- Scott to Woolf -- Busse Library Resources

Beckett to Dickens

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989); Winner of 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature

• The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1969: Samuel Beckett
• Samuel Beckett -- biography
• The Samuel Beckett On-Line Resources and Links Page -- gateway for author
• The Samuel Beckett Endpage: University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) English Department -- gateway for author
• The Samuel Beckett Society

G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

• The American Chesterton Society
• G.K. Chesterton -- gateway for author
• G.K. Chesterton: "The Colossal Genius." -- gateway for author
• G.K. Chesterton Works on the Web -- links to all major works

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)

• (William) Wilkie Collins -- biography
• Wilkie Collins: Online Literature Library -- novels and short story texts
• The Wilkie Collins Website -- gateway for author

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

• Conradiana: Texas Tech University Press -- scholarly journal
• Joseph Conrad -- electronic texts and other resources
• Joseph Conrad -- biography
• The Joseph Conrad Foundation
• The Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.)
• Joseph Conrad: Overview: The Victorian Web

Roald Dahl (1916-1990)

• Official Roald Dahl Website
• "Roald Dahl and Sociology 101." By Sharon E. Royer. ALAN Review [Virginia Polytechnic Institute] (26.1, Fall 1998)
• Roald Dahl: Wikipedia --detailed biography
• RoaldDahlFans.com

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

• "About Charles Dickens." Great Literature On-Line -- chronology and electronic texts
• Charles Dickens Museum, London -- offers Dickens house tour
• Charles Dickens: Overview: The Victorian Web
• David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page -- gateway for author
• The Dickens Page -- gateway for author
• The Dickens Project: University of California

Doyle to Joyce

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

• Arthur Conan Doyle -- biography and works list
• Arthur Conan Doyle: Overview: The Victorian Web
• The Arthur Conan Doyle Society -- gateway for author
• Sherlock Holmes on the Web -- gateway to biography, collections, and resources
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate

Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)

• Daphne du Maurier -- biography
• The Daphne du Maurier Festival of Arts and Literature
• The Daphne du Maurier WEB Site -- gateway for author

George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880)

• Chronological List by Date of Publication of George Eliot's Novels, Short Stories, and Poems -- features full-text online
• George Eliot -- gateway with texts online
• "George Eliot: Biography: From Mary Ann Evans to George Eliot."
• "George Eliot." By Virginia Woolf. From A Celebration of Women Writers, University of Pennsylvania
• George Eliot: Overview: The Victorian Web
• George Eliot--George Henry Lewes Studies: Penn State University --scholarly journal

Nadine Gordimer (1923-); Winner of 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature

• Nadine Gordimer -- biography
• Nadine Gordimer Papers, Lilly Library, Indiana University
• The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1991: Nadine Gordimer
• "The Salon Interview: Nadine Gordimer." By Dwight Garner. Salon Magazine, March 1998

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

• Hardy on the World Wide Web: Yale University -- scholarly directory
• The Thomas Hardy Association: Yale University
• Thomas Hardy: Overview: The Victorian Web
• Thomas Hardy Resource Library -- gateway for author
• Thomas Hardy Short Story Page -- full texts of over forty stories

James Joyce (1882-1941)

• International James Joyce Foundation
• James Joyce: The Brazen Head -- gateway for author
• The James Joyce Center: Dublin, Ireland
• James Joyce Resource Center: Ohio State English Department -- gateway for scholarly resources
• Work in Progress: A James Joyce Website -- gateway for author

Kipling--O'Brien

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936); Winner of 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature

• The Kipling Society (U.K.)
• The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907: Rudyard Kipling
• Rudyard Kipling -- biography
• Rudyard Kipling: The Literature Network -- biography and full texts online
• Rudyard Kipling: Overview: The Victorian Web
• "Who Was Kipling?" By David Barber. Atlantic Online, Flashbacks

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

• The Biography of D.H. Lawrence. By John Worthen, University of Nottingham
• The D.H. Lawrence Collection: University of Nottingham Libraries (U.K.) -- gateway for author
• D.H. Lawrence: Literature Network -- biography and full-text novels
• The D.H. Lawrence Review: University of Texas
• Eastwood and D.H. Lawrence: The Blue Line Trail -- walking tour of Lawrence landmarks
• The Paintings of D.H. Lawrence

Doris Lessing (1919-)

• Doris Lessing: A Retrospective -- gateway for author
• Featured Author: Doris Lessing: New York Times -- news and reviews
• "A Notorious Life: The Salon Interview: Doris Lessing." By Dwight Garner. Salon Magazine, November 1997
• "On Doris Lessing." By Joyce Carol Oates. Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Homepage. Southern Review 9.4 (October 1973)

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

• W. Somerset Maugham -- biography
• W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage: Bibliomania -- full text online
• "W. Somerset Maugham -- World Traveler, Famed Storyteller." By Craig Showalter. Caxton Club of Chicago. The Caxtonian, September, 1997 -- biography and book list

V.S. Naipaul (1932-); Winner of 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature

• Featured Author: V.S. Naipaul: New York Times -- news and reviews
• V.S. Naipaul -- biography
• V.S. Naipaul: Literature of the Caribbean
• V.S. Naipaul: Nobel Prize in Literature, 2001

Edna O'Brien (1932-)

• Edna O'Brien -- biography
• Lit Chat: Edna O'Brien: Salon.com (12/1995)
• "Passion's Progress." Interview with Edna O'Brien. Atlantic Unbound, April 20, 2000

Scott to Woolf

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

• Sir Walter Scott -- biography
• Sir Walter Scott: Bibliomania.com -- novels online
• "The Tapestried Chamber or the Lady in the Sacque." By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. -- online text
• Walter Scott Digital Archive: Edinburgh University Library

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

• Dylan Thomas:Academy of American Poets -- biography and poems
• Dylan Thomas Center: Swansea, Wales

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

• Anthony Trollope -- biography
• Anthony Trollope: Bibliomania.com -- biography and works
• Anthony Trollope: Overview: The Victorian Web
• Trollope: A Website Devoted to Anthony Trollope and his Contemporaries
• The Trollope Society

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)

• An Evelyn Waugh Website by David Cliffe -- gateway
• Doubting Hall: A Guided Tour Around the Works of Evelyn Waugh -- gateway
• Evelyn Waugh -- biography

H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

• H.G. Wells --biography
• H.G. Wells: The Literature Network -- biography and works
• H.G. Wells Society (USA)
• The War of the Worlds (1898) -- full text online
• The Wellsian: Journal of the H.G. Wells Society

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

• The Oscar Wilde Collection -- complete works online
• Oscar Wilde: Overview: The Victorian Web -- gateway for author
• Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces: An Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Trials of Oscar Wilde: NYU Libraries

P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)

• P.G. Wodehouse -- biography
• P.G. WodehouseBooks.com -- gateway to author
• P.G. Wodehouse: Wikipedia -- detailed biography
• P.G. Wodehouse Society (UK)
• The Wodehouse Society (USA)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

• Annual Bibliography: International Virginia Woolf Society.
• International Virginia Woolf Society
• Major 20th Century British Authors: Virginia Woolf: Busse Desktop Reference
• Virginia Woolf -- biography
• Virginia Woolf photos -- landmarks associated with author
• Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
• Virginia Woolf's Psychiatric History -- scholarly study
• VWW: Virginia Woolf Web --gateway to author information and online texts

Busse Library Resources

• Cerf, Bennett. The bedside book of famous British stories. [c1940] PZ1.C35 Be
• Cerf, Bennett. An anthology of famous British stories / [c1952] PZ1.C35 An
• Cross, E.A. (Ethan Allen). A Book of the short story / c1934. PZ1. C884 B5
• Hardy, Thomas. Selected stories of Thomas Hardy. 1979. PR4742. S4x
• Morris, Virginia B. Double jeopardy: women who kill in Victorian fiction / c1990. PR878.W6 M67 1990
• O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington. The twenty-five finest short stories / 1931. PZ1. O12 T8
• Scott, Walter, Sir. The works of Sir Walter Scott / PR5300. F12
• Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville) A Wodehouse bestiary / 1985. PR6045.O53 A6 1985

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