The collected short stories
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The collected short stories
（Penguin modern classics, . Fiction）
Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2017, c1987
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Contents of Works
- Illusion
- A spiritualist
- From a French prison
- In a café
- 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'Arrivée
- 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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea.
Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by her own, painful memories: of cheap hotels and drab Parisian cafes; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities, always on the periphery and always perilously close to the abyss. Rendered in extraordinarily vivid, honest prose, these stories show Rhys at the height of her literary powers and offer a fascinating counterpoint to her most famous novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. This volume includes all the stories from her three collections,The Left Bank (1927), Tigers Are Better-Looking (1968) and Sleep It Off, Lady (1976).
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