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Book

Burning your boats : the collected short stories

Call Number

  • FICTION CART (CEN)

Edition

1st American ed.

Publication Information

New York : H. Holt and Co., 1996, c1995.

Physical Description

xiv, 462 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes

"A John Macrae book."

Contents

  • Contents: Introduction / Salman Rushdie
  • Early work, 1962-6. The man who loved a double bass
  • A very, very great lady and her son at home
  • A Victorian fable (with glossary)
  • Fireworks: nine profane pieces, 1974. A souvenir of Japan
  • The executioner's beautiful daughter
  • The loves of Lady Purple
  • The smile of winter
  • Penetrating to the heart of the forest
  • Flesh and the mirror
  • Master
  • Reflections
  • Elegy for a freelance
  • The bloody chamber and other stories, 1979. The bloody chamber
  • The courtship of Mr. Lyon
  • The tiger's bride
  • Puss-in-boots
  • The Erl-King
  • The snow child
  • The lady of the house of love
  • The werewolf
  • The company of wolves
  • Wolf-Alice
  • Black venus, 1985. Black Venus
  • The kiss
  • Our Lady of the Massacre.
  • Contents (cont.): The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe
  • Overture and incidental music for A Midsummer night's dream
  • Peter and the wolf
  • The kitchen child
  • The Fall River Axe murders
  • American ghosts and Old World wonders, 1993. Lizzie's tiger
  • John Ford's 'Tis a pity she's a whore
  • Gun for the devil
  • The merchant of shadows
  • The ghost ships
  • In Pantoland
  • Ashputtle or The mother's ghose
  • Alice in Prague or The curious room
  • Impressions: the Wrightsman Magdalene
  • Uncollected stories, 1970-81. The scarlet house
  • The snow pavilion
  • The quilt maker.

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