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‘Nobody’ from The Thirteen Travellers by Hugh Walpole. Published by Hutchinson.
‘Once a Hero’ by Harold Brighouse from Best British Short Stories of 1922, eds. Edward J. O’Brien and John Cournos. Published by Longmans Green.
‘The Fly’ from The Dove’s Nest by Katherine Mansfield. Published by Constable. Reprinted by permission of Constable & Robinson Ltd.
‘The Casualty List’ from Truth Is Not Sober by Winifred Holtby. Published by Collins. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
‘Christmas Truce’ from Collected Short Stories by Robert Graves, copyright © 1962 by The Estate of Robert Graves. Published by Cassell. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Ltd.
‘The First Year of My Life’ by Muriel Spark from The Penguin Book of British Comic Short Stories, ed. Patricia Craig, copyright © 1975 by The Estate of Muriel Spark. Published by Viking. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates Ltd.
‘Company’ by Robert Grossmith from The Minerva Book of Short Stories 3, eds. Giles Gordon and David Hughes, copyright © 1989 by Robert Grossmith. Published by Mandarin. Reprinted by permission of the author.
‘Evermore’ from Cross Channel by Julian Barnes, copyright © 1996 by Julian Barnes. Published by Jonathan Cape (UK) and Alfred A. Knopf (USA). Reprinted by permission of Jonathan Cape, an imprint of The Random House Group Ltd, and by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders. The publishers would be interested to hear from any copyright holders not here acknowledged, and will be pleased to rectify any mistakes or omissions in subsequent editions.
The editors wish to thank Adam Freudenheim and Mariateresa Boffo at Penguin for making this project possible and supporting us over the long months of preparing this book. Professor Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, Professor Wolfgang Hochbruck and Mr Taff Gillingham provided valuable hints for the annotations. We also thank Dr Stefanie Lethbridge, Christina Spittel, Johanna Kunze and Nikolaus Reusch for assisting with researching the notes and reading early stages of the manuscript.