The Collected Tales of A.E. Coppard

viii, 532 pp. Thirty-eight of the two-hundred tales A.E. Coppard wrote between 1921 and 1938 have been chosen by the author for this definitive volume. "Alfred Edgar Coppard (January 4, 1878–January 13, 1957) was an English writer, noted for his influence on the short story form, and poet...He was born, the son of a tailor and a housemaid, in Folkestone, and had little formal education. He left school at the age of nine to work as an errand boy for a Jewish trouser maker in Whitechapel during the period of the Jack the Ripper murders. In the early 1920s, and still unpublished, he was in Oxford and a leading light of a literary group, the New Elizabethans, who met in a pub to read Elizabethan drama. W. B. Yeats sometimes attended the meetings. At this period he met Richard Hughes and Edgell Rickword, amongst others." - Wikipedia