The Riddle and Other Stories

by Walter de la Mare

THE RIDDLE
AND OTHER STORIES

 

By the same Author

Poetry

• THE LISTENERS and other Poems
• PEACOCK PIE: A Book of Rhymes
• MOTLEY and other Poems
• POEMS 1901-1918
• A CHILD'S DAY
• SONGS OF CHILDHOOD
• THE VEIL and other Poems
• DOWN A DOWN DERRY

Prose

• HENRY BROCKEN
• THE RETURN
• THE THREE MULLA MULGARS
• MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET
•  
• STORY & RHYME

 

 

THE RIDDLE

AND OTHER STORIES
BY
WALTER DE LA MARE

 

SELWYN & BLOUNT LIMITED
21 YORK BUILDINGS, ADELPHI
LONDON

 

First printed, May 1923

 

Printed in England at The Kynoch Press

 

CONTENTS

• The Almond Tree, P. 1
• The Count's Courtship, P. 38
• The Looking Glass, P. 5 5
• Miss Duveen, P. 69
• Selina'S Parable, P. 90
• Seaton's Aunt, P. 97
• The Bird of Travel, P. 142
• The Bowl, P. 178
• The Three Friends, P. 169
• Lispet, Lispett & Vaine, P. 178
• The Tree, P. 20 5
• Out of the Deep, P. 232
• The Creatures, P. 273
• The Riddle, P. 289
• The Vats, P. 29
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