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An edition of Open to the public (1997)

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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.

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New Directions
Language
English
Pages
376

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Table of 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
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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
The quest for Lavishes Ghast
The hanging judge.

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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6037.P29 O64 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
376 p. ;
Number of pages
376

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24712215M
Internet Archive
opentopublicnewc00spar
ISBN 10
0811213676
ISBN 13
9780811213677
LCCN
97020607
OCLC/WorldCat
36908880

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marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record
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