A short story by A. E. Coppard read by Harcourt Williams
Few writers have begun their literary careers as late as A. E. Coppard , whose first book appeared in 1921, when he was forty-three. But this book, 'Adam and Eve and Pinch Me', at once attracted attention and announced the advent of a new, strikingly individual talent in the field of the English short story.
Coppard is a poet as well as a short-story writer and, quiet and restrained as his prose style is, it is unmistakably a poet's prose. As Ford Madox Ford has put it, ' Mr. Coppard is almost the first English writer to get into English prose the peculiar quality of English lyric poetry.'