The monkey's wedding, and other stories
By: Joan Aiken
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Easthampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781931520744
Description: Joan Aiken's stories captivated readers for fifty years. They're funny, smart, gentle, and occasionally very, very scary. The stories in The Monkey's Wedding are collected here for the very first time and include six never before published, as well as two previously published under the pseudonym Nicholas Dee. Here you'll find the story of a village for sale . . . or is the village itself the story? There's an English vicar who declares on his deathbed that he might have lived an entirely different life. After his death, a large, black, argumentative cat makes an appearance. . . . This hugely imaginative collection includes introductions by Aiken as well as by her daughter, Lizza Aiken.
Table of contents: title: A mermaid too many; title: Reading in bed; title: Model wife; title: Second thoughts; title: Girl in a whirl; title: Hair; title: Red-hot favourite; title: Spur of the moment; title: The paper queen; title: Octopi in the sky; title: The magnesia tree; title: Honeymaroon; title: Harp music; title: The sale of midsummer; title: The helper; title: The monkey's wedding; title: Wee Robin; title: The fluttering thing; title: Water of youth.