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.
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 chauffers.
Contents: - 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
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.
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 chauffers.
Contents: - 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