The Music at Long Verney

by Warner, Sylvia Townsend; Steinman, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781582431123
• ISBN10: 1582431124
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

This collection of 20 short stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner, most of which appeared in "The New Yorker" from 1929 to 1977, is crowded with irrepressible, living characters and even more animated objects and incidents. The centerpiece of this collection is a series of five linked stories about the eccentric Abbey Antiques Gallery and its proprietor, the urbane Mr. Edom.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
William Maxwell
The Music at Long Verney	3	(16)
The Inside-Out	19	(6)
Flora	25	(8)
Maternal Devotion	33	(8)
An Aging Head	41	(12)
Love	53	(6)
``Stay, Corydon, Thou Swain''	59	(12)
Afternoon in Summer	71	(6)
A Scent of Roses	77	(12)
Tebic	89	(8)
A Flying Start	97	(5)
English Mosaic	102	(13)
The Candles	115	(9)
Furnivall's Hoopoe	124	(11)
The Listening Woman	135	(12)
Item, One Empty House	147	(8)
Four Figures in a Room. A Distant Figure	155	(7)
Qwertyuiop	162	(9)
A Brief Ownership	171	(5)
In the Absence of Mrs. Bullen	176	(11)
Afterword	187
Michael Steinman