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Author:
Rhys, Jean, author.
Title:
The collected short stories / Jean Rhys ; introduction by Diana Athill.
Publisher:
Penguin Books,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
viii, 387 pages ; 20 cm.
Subject:
Manners and customs--Fiction.
Other Authors:
Athill, Diana, writer of introduction.
Other Titles:
Short stories
Notes:
First published 1987.
Contents:
Illusion -- A spiritualist -- From a French prison -- In a cafe -- Tout Montparnasse and a lady -- Mannequin -- In the Luxemburg Gardens -- Tea with an artist -- Trio -- Mixing cocktails -- Again the Antilles -- Hunger -- Discourse of a lady standing a dinner to a down-and-out friend -- A night -- In the Rue de l'Arrivee -- Learning to be a mother -- The blue bird -- The grey day -- The Sidi -- At the Villa d'Or -- La grosse Fifi -- Vienne -- Till September Petronella -- The day they burned the books -- Let them call it jazz -- Tigers are better-looking -- Outside the machine -- The lotus -- A solid house -- The sound of the river -- I spy a stranger -- Temps perdi -- Pioneers, oh, pioneers -- Good-bye Marcus, good-bye Rose -- The bishop's feast -- Heat -- Fishy waters -- Overture and beginners please -- Before the deluge -- On not shooting sitting birds -- Kikimora -- Night out 1925 -- The chevalier of the Place Blanche -- The insect world -- Rapunzel, Rapunzel -- Who knows what's up in the attic? -- Sleep it off lady -- I used to live here once -- Kismet -- The whistling bird -- Invitation to the dance.
Summary:
Contains 36 stories including: Illusion--A spiritualist--From a French prison--In a cafe--Tout Montparnasse and a lady--Mannequin--(etc.).
Series:
Penguin modern classics
ISBN:
0141984856
9780141984858
OCLC:
(OCoLC)958098258
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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