Anthologies

Exciting Escape Stories

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Information

• First edition:
  • Octopus Books, 1980, UK.
    • Edited by Elizabeth Bland
• Contains:
  • "Beware of the Dog"
  • "The Story of the Bagman's Uncle" by Charles Dickens
  • "Love of Life" by Jack London
  • "Facing The Storm" by Joseph Conrad
  • "War Games" by Keith Miles
  • "A Descent Into The Maelstrom" by Edgar Allan Poe
  • "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
  • "Free Men" by Andre Devigny
  • "Springing the Trap" by Anthony Hope
  • "Ceremonies of the Horsemen" by P. L. Frankson
  • "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allen Poe
  • "Lord Nithsdale's Escape" by John Buchan
  • "An Awkward Sortie" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • "Cute Pie" by Nicholas Fisk
  • "Bid for Freedom" by W. B. Thomas
  • "The Perfect Rendezvous" by Lawrence Durrell
  • "Jeeves and the Impending Doom" by P. G. Wodehouse
  • "The Fugitive" by Maxwell Gray
  • "The Three Strangers" by Thomas Hardy
  • "A Place in the Sun" by Charles H. Russell
  • "The Bell" by William Maginn
  • "A Question of Passports" by Baroness Orczy

Teacher Resources

• "Beware of the Dog"
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
    • Several discussion ideas and writing exercises related to war literature.

Cover Illustration

Octopus Books, 1980