The Library of Wales' Story" anthologies feature the very best of Welsh
short fiction, written amid the political, social, and economic
turbulence of 20th-century Wales and beyond. More than 80 outstanding
works from the classics of Dylan Thomas, Rhys Davies, Arthur Machen, and
Gwyn Thomas to the almost forgotten brilliance of work by Margiad Evans
and Dilys Rowe and then forward to the prize-winning work of Emyr
Humphreys, Rachel Trezise, and Leonora Brito, coloring and engaging in
the life of a changed country. Story Volume 2" depicts a Wales facing up
to a dramatically changed culture and society in a world where the old
certainties of class and money, of love and war, of living and surviving
do not hold. The writers explore the spirit of a country while the
ground keeps shifting beneath them. In this selection Dai Smith has
crafted an anthology that gives a unique insight into the life of a
country: identity, language, class, and sex are all explored intensely
in this kaleidoscope of the best of the last 50 years of Welsh short
fiction.