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• 1 • How the High Spirits Came About: A Chapter of Autobiography • essay by Robertson Davies
• 7 • Revelation from a Smoky Fire • short story by Robertson Davies
• 13 • The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees • (1982) • short story by Robertson Davies
• 23 • The Great Queen is Amused • short fiction by Robertson Davies
• 33 • The Night of the Three Kings • short fiction by Robertson Davies
• 43 • The Charlottetown Banquet • (1982) • short story by Robertson Davies
• 53 • When Satan Goes Home for Christmas • short fiction by Robertson Davies
• 63 • Refuge of Insulted Saints • short fiction by Robertson Davies
• 73 • Dickens Digested • (1982) • short story by Robertson Davies
• 83 • The Kiss of Khrushchev • short fiction by Robertson Davies
• 93 • The Cat That Went to Trinity • (1977) • short story by Robertson Davies
• 103 • The Ugly Spectre of Sexism • short story by Robertson Davies
• 115 • The Pit Whence Ye Are Digged • short fiction by Robertson Davies
• 127 • The Perils of the Double Sign • short fiction by Robertson Davies
• 139 • Conversations With the Little Table • short fiction by Robertson Davies
• 151 • The King Enjoys His Own Again • short story by Robertson Davies
• 163 • The Xerox in the Lost Room • short fiction by Robertson Davies
• 175 • Einstein and the Little Lord • short fiction by Robertson Davies
• 187 • Offer of Immortality • (1982) • short story by Robertson Davies