The music at Long Verney : twenty stories / Sylvia Townsend Warner ; edited, with an afterword, by Michael Steinman ; foreword by William Maxwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978.

Contributor:

Steinman, Michael (Michael A.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

England.

Manners and customs.

Antique dealers--Fiction.

Antique dealers.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xv, 192 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, [2001]

Summary:

This collection of 20 short stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner, most of which appeared in "The New Yorker" from 1929 to 1977, is crowded with irrepressible, living characters and even more animated objects and incidents. The centerpiece of this collection is a series of five linked stories about the eccentric Abbey Antiques Gallery and its proprietor, the urbane Mr. Edom.

Contents:

The music at Long Verney

The inside-out

Flora

Maternal devotion

An aging head

Love

"Stay, Corydon, thou swain"

Afternoon in summer

A scent of roses

Tebic

A flying start

English mosaic

The candles

Furnivall's hoopoe

The listening woman

Item, one empty house

Four figures in a room. A distant figure

QWERTYUIOP

A brief ownership

In the absence of Mrs. Bullen.

ISBN:

1582431124

OCLC:

45023532