Spark, Muriel <br/><br/>
The Stories of Muriel Spark 

 - New York  : E. P. Dutton & Company  , c1985. 
 - 314 p.  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> This collection consists of the 21 stories published in Spark's Collected Stories: I (Knopf, 1968) plus six new ones. Several of the stories originally appeared in the New Yorker. The short story is a form well suited to Spark's gifts as a writer--a delicate touch, a quiet sense of irony, and a vision of existence as a conflict between the temporal and the timeless. Frequently, her characters are involved in slightly sinister experiences that have unnerving effects (``The Twins,''``The Executor,''``Another Pair of Hands''). The situtations range from the development of a shrewd marriage of convenience (``The Fathers' Daughters'') to the depiction of a baby's view of World War I (``The First Year of My Life''). Crafted with impressive skill, the stories reflect a keen perception of human weakness and the possibility of its redemption. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-525-24330-5 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>England----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Short stories
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC SPA