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The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories
| Author: | Joan Aiken |
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Small Beer Press, 2011 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Fantasy of Manners |
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Synopsis
Joan Aiken's stories captivated readers for fifty years. They're funny, smart, gentle, and occasionally very, very scary. The stories in The Monkey's Wedding are collected here for the very first time and include six never before published, as well as two previously published under the pseudonym Nicholas Dee. Here you'll find the story of a village for sale... or is the village itself the story? There's an English vicar who declares on his deathbed that he might have lived an entirely different life. After his death, a large, black, argumentative cat makes an appearance....
This hugely imaginative collection of incongruous, light, and unexpected stories features Shelley Jackson's spooky and eyecatching cover painting inspired by the story "A Mermaid Too Many" and includes introductions by Joan Aiken as well by her daughter, Lizza Aiken.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction by Joan Aiken
- Introduction by Lizza Aiken
- Girl in a Whirl
- Hair
- Harp Music
- Honeymaroon
- Octopi in the Sky
- Reading in Bed
- Red-Hot Favourite
- Second Thoughts
- Spur of the Moment
- The Fluttering Thing
- The Magnesia Tree
- The Monkey's Wedding
- The Paper Queen
- The Sale of Midsummer
- Water of Youth
- Wee Robin
- A Mermaid Too Many
- Model Wife
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