# Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams

Author: Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49755

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Brief+Diversions%3A+Being+Tales%2C+Travesties+and+Epigrams+Priestley&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Nearly _all these pieces have appeared in the_ CAMBRIDGE REVIEW, _and I thank the Editor for his courtesy in allowing me to reprint them. A few travesties and epigrams have been added, and others have been revised. Most of the tales were written during the War, many of them while I was in Flanders, and at that time, being away from books, I imagined I was doing something new, being either ignorant or forgetful of the work of better men, such as Lord Dunsany and Mr T. W. H. Crosland, in a very similar form. To such gentlemen, I can only offer an apology if I seem to enter their little pleasaunces and tread clumsily where they who went before me stepped so lightly and delicately._

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/brief-diversions-being-tales-travesties-and-epigrams-49755/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/brief-diversions-being-tales-travesties-and-epigrams-49755/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/brief-diversions-being-tales-travesties-and-epigrams-49755/chapters/3/index.md)