Collected Stories

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Flamingo, 1995 - Fiction - 586 pages
Thirty-eight stories on life among the English working classes. They include The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, on a rebellious youth in a reformatory, and Mr. Raynor the School Teacher, on a teacher who is a Peeping Tom.

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Contents

from THE LONELINESS
1
Uncle Ernest
37
Mr Raynor the Schoolteacher
47
Copyright

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About the author (1995)

Alan Sillitoe was born on March 4, 1928 and grew up in the slums of the industrial city of Nottingham. He began to write while in the Royal Air Force, stationed in Malaya. He is best known for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958), which won the Author's Club Prize for the best British novel of 1958 and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959), which won Britain's Hawthornden Prize for 1960. Both books were adapted into films in 1960 and 1962 respectively. His other works include The Death of William Posters (1965), Tree on Fire (1967), Travels in Nihilon (1971), and Raw Material (1972). He died on April 25, 2010 at the age of 82.

Bibliographic information

TitleCollected Stories
AuthorAlan Sillitoe
PublisherFlamingo, 1995
ISBN0002252228, 9780002252225
Length586 pages
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