Open to the public
Subtitle: new & collected stories
By: Muriel Spark
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780811213677
Subjects: Short stories
Description: Thirty-seven stories portraying the English at home and abroad. They range from Bang-Bang You're Dead, on English colonialists in Africa, to A Member of the Family, which deals with their mating customs.
Table of contents: title: The Portobello Road; title: The curtain blown by the breeze; title: The black madonna; title: Bang-bang you're dead; title: The seraph and the Zambesi; title: The twins; title: The playhouse called remarkable; title: The pawnbroker's wife; title: Miss Pinkerton's apocalypse; title: A sad tale's best for winter; title: The leaf sweeper; title: Daisy overend; title: You should have seen the mess; title: Come along, Marjorie; title: The ormolu clock; title: The dark glasses; title: A member of the family; title: The house of the famous poet; title: The fathers' daughters; title: Open to the public; title: Alice Long's dachshunds; title: The go-away bird; title: The first year of my life; title: The gentile Jewesses; title: The executor; title: The fortune-teller; title: Another pair of hands; title: The dragon; title: The girl I left behind me; title: Going up and coming down; title: The pearly shadow; title: Chimes; title: The thing about police stations; title: Harper and Wilton; title: Ladies and gentlemen; title: The quest for Lavishes Ghast; title: The hanging judge.