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Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook. This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide. Each volume offers: a comprehensive overview of the artists short fiction-including detailed analyses of every significant story; interviews, essays, memoirs and other biographical materials -- often previously unpublished; a representative selection of critical responses; and a comprehensive primary bibliography, a selected bibliography of important criticism, a chronology of the artists life and works and an index.

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One lacuna in Greene scholarship is filled by Kelly's study of Greene's short fiction. Many are the "scraps" Greene called them, lacking in the polish of the novels; some are "hollow" or do not "hold up very well" in technique. Of the comic stories in The Last Word (1984): "They are not especially funny, their humor is undergraduate and patronizing, they feature no notable characters, and their whimsy and fantasy are contrived." Because the Collected Stories (1972) does not show the development of Greene's style, Kelly takes them up chronologically, including several uncollected ones Greene had written as a troubled student at Berkhamsted. Kelly's premise is the Wordsworthian axiom that the "child is the father of the man," and he details these lush Freudian impulses guilt, punishment, repressed sexuality behind the early stories. The later stories bear less well the generalizing about lost innocence and troubled faith, but there is soundness in Kelly's thesis that "comedy and irony are his means of defending himself against the relentless memory [of childhood disillusionment]." Highly recommended; all academic libraries. R. T. White; Kent State University