The Folio Book of Short Novels

This anthology collects five short novels from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, written in English, German, and French. The pieces differ in setting and mode: a governess's unreliable account of children and a presence in an English country house; a sled dog's life in the Yukon; a writer's fatal infatuation in a decaying Adriatic resort; a Midlands girl's collision with family and a traveling man; and a Parisian girl's education in how marriages are arranged. There is no frame story. The book is a sampler of the novella as a form, not a single continuous narrative.

Bound in colour blocked silver cloth. Red slipcase. Dark blue endpapers.