Naomi Mitchison

Naomi Mitchison Black Sparta That steep road went on and up, narrow and stony, going back to Sparta, Sparta again worse than ever it was, that freedom they'd promised him gone down the wind - oh, a Spartan promise! He was tied to the end of an ox-cart with a raw hide rope that had dried and...

INTRODUCTION These volumes of twentieth-century short stories in English cover a wide range of human experience, comic and tragic, strange and everyday, life on both sides of the tracks; in styles of writing they are equally varied. Can we then speak of the art of the short story as if it is a...