Full name: The Closed Door and Other Stories

Author: Dorothy Whipple Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Contemporary, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781903155646 1903155649

The ten short stories in 'The Closed Door and Other Stories' are a selection from the three volumes of stories that Dorothy Whipple published in her lifetime: 'On Approval' in 1935, 'After Tea and Other Stories' in 1941 and 'Wednesday and Other Stories' in 1961. Dorothy Whipple's key theme is ‘Live and Let Live’. And what she describes throughout her short stories are people, and particularly parents, who defy this maxim. For this reason her work is timeless, like all great writing. It is irrelevant that Dorothy Whipple’s novels were set in an era when middle-class women expected to have a maid; when fish knives were used for eating fish; when children did what they were told. The moral universe she creates has not changed: there are bullies in every part of society; people try their best but often fail; they would like to be unselfish but sometimes are greedy. Similar books: Tea with Mr. Rochester by Frances Towers Tell It to a Stranger by Elizabeth Berridge Good Evening Mrs. Craven by Mollie Panter-Downes Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge High Wages by Dorothy Whipple Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer The Priory by Dorothy Whipple Greenery Street by Denis Mackail Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary by Ruby Ferguson Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton Consequences by E. M. Delafield Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Don't Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver