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Title: Some World Far from Ours

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Title: Some World Far from Ours Title Record # 1028513
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Date: 1929-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Non-genre short story.
Synopsis: A housekeeper working in a motel primarily used for quick sexual assignations spends much of her time reading romances, the sort she does not have in her mundane marriage. One day in entering a darkened hotel room to change the sheets, the combination of the darkness, and sparkles of light make her imagine she is in such a fantastical world. But, turning the lights on, the scene is revealed for the mundane after all.
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Some World Far from Ours and 'Stay Corydon, Thou Swain' 1929-00-00 Sylvia Townsend Warner Elkin Mathews & Marrot (Woburn Books #18)  
6/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
31
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll J. G. P. Checkmark
The Salutation 1932-00-00 Sylvia Townsend Warner The Viking Press     303
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Salutation 2000-06-00 Sylvia Townsend Warner Tartarus Press 1-872621-50-3
£25.00?£: UK pound
xiii+
250
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
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