Tigers are Better-Looking is a collection of short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 written by famed Dominica

Dominica

Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...

n author Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys , born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, was a mid 20th-century novelist from Dominica. Educated from the age of 16 in Great Britain, she is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea , written as a "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.-Early life:Rhys was born in Roseau, Dominica...

, published in 1968 by André Deutsch

André Deutsch

André Deutsch was a British publisher.After having learned the business of publishing working for Francis Aldor with whom he was interned in the Isle of Man during the Second World War and who had introduced him to the industry, André Deutsch left Aldor's employment after a few months to continue...

 and reissued by Penguin ten years later. This collection combines eight stories written by Rhys during the 1950s (her period of obscurity) with another nine from her previous efforts in 1927's The Left Bank and Other Stories

The Left Bank and Other Stories

The Left Bank and Other Stories is the first collection of short stories written by Dominican author Jean Rhys. It was first published by Jonathan Cape and Harper & Brothers in 1927, and contained an introduction by Ford Madox Ford....

. In 1979, the title story from Rhys's collection was adapted into a UK-produced short film, directed by Hussein Shariffe.

Stories found in Tigers are Better-Looking

• "Till September Petronella"
• "The Day they Burned the Books"
• "Let Them Call it Jazz"
• "Tigers are Better-Looking
• "Outside the Machine"
• "The Lotus"
• "A Solid House"
• "The Sound of the River"

Stories found in The Left Bank and Other Stories

(introduced by a preface to the original 1927 collection of twenty-two)

• "Illusion
  Illusion
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• "From a French Prison"
• "Mannequin
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• "Tea with an Artist"
• "Mixing Cocktails"
• "Again the Antilles"
• "Hunger
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• "La Grosse Fifi"
• "Vienne
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ISBN 0-233-95987-4 (hardcover, original 1968 edition, André Deutsch

André Deutsch

André Deutsch was a British publisher.After having learned the business of publishing working for Francis Aldor with whom he was interned in the Isle of Man during the Second World War and who had introduced him to the industry, André Deutsch left Aldor's employment after a few months to continue...

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