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Date: 1929-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: Czech
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Věštkyně?Vestkyne
Title Record # 2494466
Author:
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek
Karel Chapek
Karel Chapek
Date: 1929-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: Czech
Note: Usually interpreted as dramatic irony on human folly (as nothing happens outside bounds of possible) but a genre reading can't be ruled out.
Synopsis: A London policeman ("the incident ... could have happened nowhere else
than in England", as on the Continent "judges are bound to try offenders and to sentence them in accordance with the letter of the law and not ... their shrewd common-sense and the dictates of their consciences") suspects a foreign fortune-teller of espionage or other crimes. His wife in disguise pays for a card reading that soon she would marry a rich man and move overseas. Summoned to a magistrate, who strongly disagrees on interpretation of individual cards, the fortune-teller tries a common-sense defense that a woman "with a glove torn", pretending to be better off and also younger than she obviously is wishes nothing but to marry; she ends up expelled. Yet, within a year the wife divorces the policeman for an Australian.
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Tales from Two Pockets | 1932-00-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
Faber and Faber | 7/6?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). |
287 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
Tales from Two Pockets | 1943-00-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
The Macmillan Company | 215 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
Tales from Two Pockets | 1943-00-00 |
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek Karel Chapek |
George Allen & Unwin | 7/6?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). |
215 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1954 | 1954-06-00 | ed. Editors of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | $0.35?$: US dollar |
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | Dirone Photography | ||||
Tales of the Occult | 1975-06-00 | ed. Barbara H. Wolf, Jack C. Wolf | Fawcett Crest | X2455 | $1.75?$: US dollar |
416 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth |