All the Stories of Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
416 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 081121494X
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Language: English
Publish: 1004601600000
AnthologiesAudiobookBritish LiteratureClassicsFemale AuthorsFictionLiterary FictionLiteratureScotlandShort Stories
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