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• Title: Twelve Tales with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece and an Intermezzo: Being Select Stories
• Authors: Grant Allen
• Year: 1899-00-00
• Publisher: Grant Richards
• Pages: ix+351
• Binding: hc
• Type: COLLECTION
• Title Reference: Twelve Tales with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece and an Intermezzo: Being Select Stories
• ISFDB Record Number: 52516
• Notes:
  • Acording to Clute/Grant the only spec-fic story is A Child of the Phalanstery
  • Bleiler's The Guide to Supernatural Fiction also lists "Wolverden Tower" as speculative.
  • OCLC 6078949 categorizes the collection as mystery and detective stories
  • Additional data from Internet Archive.
• Bibliographic Comments: Add new Publication comment (12TALES1899)

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• v • Introduction (Twelve Tales with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece and an Intermezzo) • essay by Grant Allen
• 1 • Headpiece: A Confidential Communication • shortstory by Grant Allen
• 9 • The Reverend John Creedy • (1884) • shortstory by Grant Allen
• 31 • Frasine's First Communion • shortstory by Grant Allen
• 43 • The Child of the Phalanstery • (1884) • novelette by Grant Allen
• 65 • The Abbé's Repentance • novelette by Grant Allen
• 89 • Wolverden Tower • (1896) • novelette by Grant Allen
• 127 • Janet's Nemesis • novelette by Grant Allen
• 151 • Intermezzo: Langalula • shortstory by Grant Allen
• 159 • The Curate of Churnside • (1884) • novelette by Grant Allen
• 195 • Cecca's Lover • shortstory by Grant Allen
• 213 • The Backslider • (1884) • novelette by Grant Allen
• 243 • John Cann's Treasure • novelette by Grant Allen
• 283 • Ivan Greet's Masterpiece • novelette by Grant Allen
• 325 • The Churchwarden's Brother • shortstory by Grant Allen
• 345 • Tailpiece: A Matter of Standpoint • shortstory by Grant Allen

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