the stories of muriel spark

Very good book in very good dustjacket. Additional images available upon request.

The stories of Muriel Spark brings together all those wonderful stories- from the early ones about Africa, written before her first novel, The Comforters, was published in 1957, to her most recent,"Another Pair of Hands"and "the Dragon" both published this year in the New Yorker. It includes the stories of her previous collections- Voices at Play, The Go-Away Bird, and Bang-bang You're Dead, as well as a host of stories never published in book form. From post war Africa and London to contemporary Italy, the range of settings and characters displayed in this volume is astonishing, but herhaps even more so is the consistency of her prose - precise, witty, always alert-alert to nuance and the moment that defines character. Superbly crafted and immensely entertaining, this is an imcomparable collection of an incomparable writer.