The Music at Long Verney: Twenty Stories
Washington, D.C. Counterpoint, 2001. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. Item #2355120
ISBN: 9781582431123
First thus. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
192 pp. Of the previous century's many great storytellers, Sylvia Townsend Warner was the supreme enchantress. The Music at Long Verney collects twenty of her best short stories, most of them from the great years at The New Yorker. They span a full half-century, from 1929 to 1977, and are crowded with irrepressible, living characters and even more animated objects and incidents. There are stories of romantic love and the mysteries of marriage; of artists who speak the truth even as they distort reality; of gardens and houses and very fine things and of those who fancy themselves their owners. The centerpiece of the collection is a series of five linked stories about an eccentric establishment, the Abbey Antiques Gallery, and its singular proprietor, the urbane Mr. Edom.
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