The Silent Life Within — Mike Smith

12 essays on the short story, examining work by Daphne Du Maurier, Alphonse Daudet, H.G.Wells, Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, H.E. Bates, V.S.Pritchett and Katherine Mansfield, Mary Mann, Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs W.K.Clifford, and others. Mike Smith holds the degree of M.Litt from Glasgow University.