Short story story, "Travel by Wire!" in 1937. Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark and L.P. Hartley were other popular British storytellers whose career started in this period. In Ireland, James Joyce published his short story collection "Dubliners" in 1914. These stories, written in a more accessible style than his later novels, are based on careful observation of the inhabitants of his birth city. In the first half of the 20th century, a number of high-profile American magazines such as "The Atlantic Monthly", "Harper's Magazine", "The New Yorker", "Scribner's", "The Saturday Evening Post", "Esquire", and "The Bookman" published short stories in each issue. The
The Man Upstairs (short story collection) The Man Upstairs (short story collection) The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 23 January 1914 by Methuen & Co., London. Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally "Strand Magazine" in the UK and "Cosmopolitan" or "Collier's Weekly" in the United States. Although the book was not published in the US, many of the stories were eventually made available to US readers in "The Uncollected Wodehouse" (1976) and "The Swoop! and Other Stories" (1979) It is a miscellaneous collection, not featuring any of Wodehouse's