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Format:
Book
Title:
The Toynbee convector : stories
Uniform Title:
Short stories. Selections
ISBN:
9780394547039

9780394571096
Edition:
First edition.
Distribution:
New York : Random House
Publication:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
Physical Description:
vii, 275 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
The Toynbee convector -- Trapdoor -- On the Orient, North -- One night in your life -- West of October -- The last circus -- The Laurel and Hardy love affair -- I suppose you are wondering why we are here? -- Lafayette, farewell -- Banshee -- Promises, promises -- The love affair -- One for his lordship, and one for the road! -- At midnight, in the month of June -- Bless me, Father, for I have sinned -- By the numbers! -- A touch of petulance -- Long division -- Come and bring Constance! -- Junior -- The tombstone -- The thing at the top of the stairs -- Colonel Stonesteel's genuine home-made truly Egyptian mummy.
Summary:
A superlative new collection of twenty-two stories by the author of "The Martian Chronicles" includes the continuing saga of H.G. Well's time traveller and his Toynbee Convector, a ghost on the Orient Express, and a bored man who creates his own genuine Egyptian mummy.
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