Fools, Knaves and Heroes
Archer, Jeffrey / Bainbridge, Simon
The category of "political short story" is a deliberately loose one, for not many writers have hands-on experience of the world of politics. The authors here might have described their stories as being about people, rather than politics. And so the collection is wonderfully diverse, ranging from Joyce's evocation of tarnished ideals and a fallen hero in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" to Jack London's vivid fantasy of a general strike across t...