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Showing posts with label Short stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Short stories. Show all posts
16 December 2024

Elinor Glyn's Christmas Ghost Story (and others)

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The Contrast and Other Stories Elinor Glyn London: Duckworth, 1913 312 pages As is typical of short story collections, this book is overshad...
01 November 2024

Handled by the Saturday Evening Post

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'Woman-handled' Arthur Stringer The Saturday Evening Post , volume  197, issue 44 May 2, 1925 A critic writes: "In your New Yea...
02 November 2023

Abraham's Bosom and the Great Change of Life

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Abraham's Bosom Basil King New York: Harper & Brothers, 1918 54 pages A short story masquerading as a novella,  Abraham's Bosom ...
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28 August 2023

One Non Blonde

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Incendiary Blonde Keith Edgar Toronto: National Publishing, 1945 126 pages When is a blonde not a blonde? When is a novel not a novel? Is a ...
12 May 2023

That Only a Mother: The Best of the Best

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'That Only a Mother' The Best of Judith Merril Judith Merril New York: Warner, 1976 254 pages The Best of Judith Merril  sees an an...
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12 December 2022

Ten Kicks at the Can for A.E. van Vogt

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Destination: Universe A.E. van Vogt New York: Signet, 1958 160 pages I began this book wondering if I hadn't been too hard on A.E. van V...
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02 March 2022

Lunar Attractions; or, The Leacock I Like

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Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy Stephen Leacock Toronto: Gundy, 1915 282 pages My introduction to Stephen Leacock came through a copy of  L...
02 August 2021

Shorter Moore

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Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories Brian Moore [Belfast]: Turnpike, 2020 102 pages Brian Moore was first and foremost a novelist. He rece...
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