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This paperback contains 22 short stories - the shortest two pages long, the longest five pages long - by British and American authors of the 20th century. Not just short stories, but very short stories. Some of these concentrated prose pieces are simply charming or amusing. However, many are, not so simply, unsettling or painful. Almost all are ironic and ambiguous. And some bring a - smaller or larger - world to bloom in the reader's mind. Or even to collapse. Those who want to recognize the recently passed century (and themselves within it) will read this paperback with benefit: they will know 22 times as much afterwards as they did before. Texts for connoisseurs.