Tigers Are Better-Looking
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Tigers are Better-Looking is a collection of short stories written by famed Dominican author Jean Rhys, published in 1968 by André Deutsch and reissued by Penguin ten years later. This collection combines eight stories written by Rhys during the 1950s (her period of obscurity) with another nine from her previous efforts in 1927's The Left Bank.
[edit] 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
[edit] Stories found in The Left Bank
(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
ISBN 0-233-95987-4 (hardcover, original 1968 edition, André Deutsch)
