This new paperback collection "combines 4 brand new stories to the 37 originally collected in the 1997 cloth ed. 'Open To the Public' story collection from New Directions ... This is the definitive Spark short fiction volume"--Publisher's info.
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 -- Open to the public -- 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 -- Quest for lavishes ghast -- The hanging judge -- The snobs -- The young man who discovered the secret of life -- Christmas fugue -- A hundred and eleven years without a chauffeur