Richard goes to prison, and other stories

the long version

"This book rescues from oblivion the seven known short stories of Harley Granville Barker and demonstrates the sometimes very close relationship between individual short stories and one or another of Barker's plays written about the same time. Quite apart from these considerations of the connections between his works in prose fiction and his dramatic pieces, the book seeks to examine the merits of the stories in their own right and to compare them with the work of other short-story writers of the same period. The field is a rich one, containing in the years 1900-1925 such well-known figures as A. E. Coppard, Katherine Mansfield, John Galsworthy, George Moore, D. H. Lawrence, and "Saki" (H. H. Munro). It is this book's assertion that Granville Barker, though his output in this genre was small, is not dwarfed even in so scintillating a company."--BOOK JACKET.