Price: £14.00
Item code: FM093| Collected Short Stories and Summer in the Country (Autobiography) Edited by Peter Thompson |
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| Date written | 2002 |
| Type of work | Text book |
| ISBN | 0-9535125-4-1 |
| Publisher | Fand Music Press |
| Publisher’s product page | Collected Short Stories and Summer in the Country (Autobiography) |
| Notes | Collects together all of Carey Blyton’s short stories together with his autobiographical account of wartime evacuation as a child; includes the first ever publication of the short stories Deadline, Little Mr Universe and The Golden Silence; includes the first UK publication of the short stories The Final Solution, Touchdown and A Very Good Rate of Exchange |
| More info… | See the dedicated section about Collected Short Stories and Summer in the Country (Autobiography) |
| Section | Story/Chapter |
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| Introduction | Editor’s Preface |
| Short stories | Summit Meeting (1957, revised 1982) |
| The Carp (1970) | |
| The Swan (1971) | |
| Old Sam and the Acorns (1971) | |
| A Fine Summer’s Day (1971) | |
| Deadline (1971) | |
| The Final Solution (1979) | |
| First Prize to Miss Pettigrew (1980) | |
| Little Mr Universe (1980) | |
| The Great God Pan (1980) | |
| The Spoils of War (1980) | |
| The Golden Silence (1980) | |
| Touchdown (1980) | |
| A Very Good Rate of Exchange (1985) | |
| Beggar Your Neighbour (1987) | |
| Summer in the Country (Autobiography, 1987) | 1. An Unexpected Departure |
| 2. Interregnum | |
| 3. The Rectory, West Lydford | |
| 4. In the Footsteps of Gilbert White | |
| 5. New Faces | |
| 6. In Thrall to Bacchus | |
| 7. An Expected Departure | |
| 8. The Gas-works, Castle Cary | |
| 9. Business Ventures | |
| 10. Romeo and Juliet | |
| 11. ‘Keep The Home Fires Burning’ | |
| 12. Up Everest with Hilary | |
| 13. The Departure | |
| Post-scriptum | |
| Supplementary | Publishing History |
Throughout his career, Carey Blyton was also a writer of prose, and here, collected for the first time, are all of his short stories, together with Summer in the Country, an autobiographical fragment dealing with his experiences as a wartime evacuee. This is an attractive hardback volume of 120 pages with a glossy dust-jacket; the autobiographical section also contains a handful of photographic illustrations.
Reviews
Buy this book and read it; enjoy the gentle humour and wonder about a man who so loves to write he does it in words, songs and music; and all very well indeed.
—Musical Opinion
[Readers] may well be surprised, one hopes pleasantly, by this lovely and entertaining collection of [Carey Blyton’s] short stories, written over a period of thirty years.
There were times when I thought seriously to myself that Carey Blyton may well be a better writer than composer, but then I thought again…
Some are whimsical, some ironic, a few sentimental and one or two autobiographical – parallels to his compositions, perhaps. All are readable and pleasantly written…
…fascinating as an insight into Carey [Blyton]’s formative experiences…
…a charming autobiographical essay…