''Tigers are Better-Looking'' is a collection of

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written by

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n author

Jean Rhys Jean Rhys, ( ; born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a British novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she mainly resided in England, where she was sent for her ...

, published in 1968 by

André Deutsch André Deutsch (15 November 1917 – 11 April 2000) was a Hungarian-born British publisher who founded an eponymous publishing company in 1951. Biography Deutsch was born on 15 November 1917 in Budapest, Hungary, the son of a Jewish dentis ...

and reissued by Penguin ten years later. This collection's first eight stories were written by Rhys during her 1950s period of obscurity and first published in the early 1960s. The second nine are reissued from her 1927 debut collection '' The Left Bank and Other Stories''. 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" *"From a French Prison" *"Mannequin" *"Tea with an Artist" *"Mixing Cocktails" *"Again the Antilles" *"Hunger" *"La Grosse Fifi" *"Vienne"

Previous publications

Till September Petronella ''

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'' 1960 The Day they Burned the Books ''The London Magazine'' 1960 Tigers are Better-Looking ''The London Magazine'' 1962 Let Them Call it Jazz ''The London Magazine'' 1962 The Sound of the River ''Art and Literature'' no. 9 1966 The Lotus ''Art and Literature'' no. 11 1967 Outside the Machine ''Winter's Tales'' (

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) A Solid House Voices, Michael Joseph, 1963

References

{{Reflist 1968 short story collections Short story collections by Jean Rhys André Deutsch books