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All the stories of Muriel Spark.
Van Pelt Library PR6037.P29 A6 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spark, Muriel.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Great Britain.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 398 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 2001.
- Summary:
- Spanning her entire career to date, All the Stories of Muriel Spark contains four brand new tales. Now in hand is every single one of her forty-one marvelous stories. "To read Spark," as the Georgia Review put it, "is to encounter delight after delight." Ranging from South Africa to the West End, her dazzling stories feature hanging judges, fortune-tellers, shy girls, psychiatrists, dress designers, pensive ghosts, never-departing guests, and imaginary chauffeurs. Regarding one story ("The Portobello Road"), Stephen Schiff said in The New Yorker: "Muriel Spark has written some of the best sentences in English. For instance: 'He looked as if he would murder me, and he did.' It's a nasty piece of work, that sentence."
- Contents:
- Foreword: The Story of My Stories ix
- The Portobello Road 1
- The Curtain Blown by the Breeze 21
- The Black Madonna 34
- Bang-Bang You're Dead 52
- The Seraph and the Zambesi 77
- The Twins 85
- The Playhouse Called Remarkable 94
- The Pawnbroker's Wife 104
- Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse 115
- 'A Sad Tale's Best for Winter' 121
- The Leaf-Sweeper 127
- Daisy Overend 133
- You Should Have Seen the Mess 141
- Come Along, Marjorie 147
- The Ormolu Clock 158
- The Dark Glasses 167
- A Member of the Family 180
- The House of the Famous Poet 192
- The Fathers' Daughters 200
- Open to the Public 211
- Alice Long's Dachshunds 222
- The Go-Away Bird 232
- The First Year of My Life 274
- The Gentile Jewesses 281
- The Executor 288
- The Fortune-Teller 296
- Another Pair of Hands 306
- The Dragon 316
- The Girl I Left Behind Me 326
- Going Up and Coming Down 330
- The Pearly Shadow 334
- Chimes 340
- The Thing About Police Stations 346
- Harper and Wilton 350
- Ladies and Gentlemen 357
- Quest for Lavishes Ghast 365
- The Hanging Judge 370
- The Snobs 377
- The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life 384
- Christmas Fugue 387
- A Hundred and Eleven Years without a Chauffeur 394.
- Notes:
- "A New Directions book."
- "This new paperbook collection, All the stories of Muirel Spark, adds four new stories ... to the thirty-seven stories originally presented in New Directions' clothbound 1997 edition, in Open to the public : new & collected stories"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 081121494X
- OCLC:
- 47141932
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