The Riddle and Other Stories

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The Riddle and Other Stories (1923)
by Walter de la Mare

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London: Selwyn & Blount Ltd, 1923. Advertisements, etc, to be added later.

Whether they've all appeared before in magazine I don't know , but here they are at last in a volume, these stories that many readers have longed to have. … Sometimes Mr. de la Mare begins by placing us in this world, and then beckons us little by little into another world in whose different strangeness he is quite as much at home. Sometimes the transition is swift and smooth from one world to the other, as in the Riddle itself; and once in a while, as in the Count's Courtship, we discover that this world can be as strange as any. … —from the review in The New Republic, Sept 1923. Full review(s) on the Discussion page

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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

to Russell Loines

“This communicating of a man's self to his friend .... redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halfs.”

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

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