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All the stories of Muriel Spark.

Title
All the stories of Muriel Spark.
Author
Spark, Muriel.
Publication
New York : New Directions, 2001.

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New Directions Publishing hou
Description
398 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
This new and complete paperback edition now contains every one of Spark's forty-one short stories.
Series Statement
New Directions paperbook ; no. 933
Uniform Title
  • Short stories
  • New Directions paperbook no. 933.
Alternative Title
Short stories
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Manners and customs
  • Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction
  • Grande-Bretagne > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • Great Britain
  • Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • novels.
  • Novels
  • Fiction
  • Short stories
  • English fiction
  • Romans.
Note
  • This new paperback collection "combines 4 brand new stories to the 37 originally collected in the 1997 cloth ed. 'Open To the Public' story collection from New Directions ... This is the definitive Spark short fiction volume"--Publisher's info.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword: the story of my stories -- The Portobello Road -- The curtain blown by the breeze -- The black Madonna -- Bang-bang you're dead -- The Seraph and the Zambesi -- The twins -- The playhouse called Remarkable -- The pawnbroker's wife -- Miss Pinkerton's apocalypse -- 'A sad tale's best for winter' -- The leaf-sweeper -- Daisy Overend -- You should have seen the mess -- Come along, Marjorie -- The Ormolu clock -- The dark glasses -- A member of the family -- The house of the famous poet -- The fathers' daughters -- Open to the public -- Alice Long's dachshunds -- The go-away bird -- The first year of my life -- The gentile Jewesses -- The executor -- The fortune-teller -- Another pair of hands -- The dragon -- The girl I left behind me -- Going up and coming down -- The pearly shadow -- Chimes -- The thing about police stations -- Harper and Wilton -- Ladies and gentlemen -- Quest for lavishes ghast -- The hanging judge -- The snobs -- The young man who discovered the secret of life -- Christmas fugue -- A hundred and eleven years without a chauffeur.
ISBN
  • 081121494X
  • 9780811214940
LCCN
2001042588
OCLC
47141932
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library