Selected Stories

In his introduction Professor Stephen Gray writes: "This collection brings back into print for the first time in many years all the major African stories Plomer wrote from 1926-33, and hence most of his important short fiction. Thereafter I have chosen a few representative stories of his later periods, and allowed the collection to close with his final story of 1956...The return of these stories in the Plomer canon to the reader, in Southern Africa and elsewhere, should help to establish his status more firmly than ever, and find a new generation of readers who, since his death in 1973, might have heard - but are not really sure - that William Plomer is one of the finest and most influential short-story writers South Africa has produced.