A pleasingly period-specific literary anthology: part classroom relic, part reading map, part reminder that “modern prose” once meant a fairly muscular spread of fiction, essay, memoir, travel writing, criticism, and oddness.

The Writer in the Modern World is a 1962 anthology of twentieth-century prose, selected by H. P. Heseltine and S. Tick, bringing together writers including Dylan Thomas, Lawrence Durrell, Sean O’Casey, George Orwell, Patrick White, Cyril Connolly, Gerald Durrell, James Thurber, Lister Kershaw, William Faulkner, Robert Graves, and more.

Good for readers interested in twentieth-century literature, Australian educational publishing, old anthologies, and browsing rather than behaving.

First edition, F. W. Cheshire paperback, 1962. Good vintage condition, with age-toning, light foxing, cover wear, and some rubbing/chipping to the front cover lettering. Binding sound.