ABSTRACT:
A comprehensive exploration of the literary beauty of stories like E.M.Forster's 'The Eternal Moment',Katherine Mansfield's 'The Fly', James Joyce's 'Araby'etc.The Introduction sensitively analyses the essence of the literary genre.Specially significant is the chapter where the influence of T.S.Eliot's theory of 'Objective Correlative'on Mansfield's narrative style is pointed out.
The book also contains a remarkable adverse criticism of H.E.Bates's 'The Ox'.