Tag: The Persephone Book of Short Stories
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Short Story Sunday – Telling Tales with STW
I’m not sure if a Gainsborough portrait of Arminella Blountin the character actually exists, so here’s his painting ofhis daughters chasing a butterfly. This week a short story much more to my taste – A View of Exmoor, by Sylvia Townsend Warner, whose work I adore. Here the Finch family, dressed in their best, are…
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Short Story Sunday: The Lottery
Oh, this was absolutely horrid and I hated it, hated it, hated it. Shirley Jackson may be highly esteemed by many of you, and she may be an excellent writer, but that doesn’t mean I have to like her. And if her other work is any way similar to The Lottery then I don’t want…
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Short Story Sunday: Treachery, Freedom, and Beauty!
This gorgeous screen printed furnishing fabricis reproduced on the back endpaper of The Persephone Book of Short Stories. It’s called Cote d’Azure,and was designed by Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell for Fischbacher in 1983. Oops! I forgot the title! And the intro! Sorry – I will amend it now. Since this is Sunday, I have posted a Short…
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Mother and Child Reunion
It’s been a while since I’ve posted my thoughts on any tales from The Persephone Book of Short Stories, but I certainly haven’t forgotten them. So here’s are two for this week’s Short Story Sunday. You’ll find there is a kind of loose theme, or link, in that both today’s tales explore the failing relationship…
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Struggling with a Short Story…
Well, it’s Sunday again – they do seem to roll round very quickly, don’t they? Anyway, that means it’s time for some sort stories, and this week I’m back with my lovely Persephone collection, and a tale called Nine Years is a Long Time, by Norah Hoult. And oh, how I struggled with this one.…
The Book Trunk 