Short story from 'All the stories of Muriel Spark

A reissue of the 1960 novel which revolves around Dougal Douglas, evil genius and charmer who turns an entire South London community on its head. Murial Spark is the author of more than 15 novels including "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and "Girls of Slender Means"

Contents The Go-Away Bird The Curtain Blown by the Breeze Bang-Bang You’re Dead The Seraph and the Zambezi The Pawnbroker’s Wife The Snobs A Member of the Family The Fortune-Teller The Fathers’ Daughters Open to the Public The Dragon The Leaf Sweeper Harper and Wilton The Executor Another Pair of Hands The Girl I Left Behind Me Miss Pinkerton’s Apocalypse The Pearly Shadow Going Up and Coming Down You Should Have Seen the Mess Quest for Lavishes Ghast The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life Daisy Overend The House of the Famous Poet The Playhouse Called Remarkable Chimes Ladies and Gentlemen Come Along, Marjorie The Twins ‘A Sad Tale’s Best for Winter’ Christmas Fugue The First Year of My Life The Gentile Jewesses Alice Long’s Dachshunds The Dark Glasses The Ormolu Clock The Portobello Road The Black Madonna The Thing about Police Stations A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur The Hanging Judge

Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."

В однотомник включены лучшие сатирические романы одной из крупнейших современных писательниц Великобритании: «Memento mori», «Мисс Джин Броди в расцвете лет», «Умышленная задержка»; антирасистская повесть «Птичка-«уходи» и рассказы разных лет