The Red Door: The Complete English Short Stories, 1949-76Although best known as one of Scotland's greatest modern poets, Iain Crichton Smith was also prolific as a writer of short stories. These pieces form a central part of his oeuvre, demonstrating the full range and versatility of his literary talent. From humor to tragedy, from inner monologues to extrovert surrealism, the diversity of his writing indicates the extraordinary range of his own reading and vivid mental world. Crichton Smith wrote short stories throughout his life. Some are vignettes, others novellas, and the best of them show him to be an author of unique sensitivity and intelligence. This book is part of a two-volume collection, comprising the complete English stories, including a large number that have never previously been published in book form, as well as others that have been out of print for many years, thus making it possible to judge Crichton Smith's achievement as a writer in full |
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... blue suit , neat as a ray or razor , and would wave to his wife who was following his progress to the road from an open window , her scarf tight round her head . He would go off to the pub and pick a fight with a Catholic , or more ...
... blue suit , neat as a ray or razor , and would wave to his wife who was following his progress to the road from an open window , her scarf tight round her head . He would go off to the pub and pick a fight with a Catholic , or more ...
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... blue it wouldn't have suited the door at all . Blue would have been too blatant in a cold way . And anyway the sky was already blue . But mixed with his satisfaction he felt what could only be described as puzzlement , a slight ...
... blue it wouldn't have suited the door at all . Blue would have been too blatant in a cold way . And anyway the sky was already blue . But mixed with his satisfaction he felt what could only be described as puzzlement , a slight ...
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... blue coat from the back and your bent head with the ordered coiffure . For a moment I am frightened by a terrifying vision . It is as if you are in another time , seeing that shell for the first time , and as if a glass wall had come ...
... blue coat from the back and your bent head with the ordered coiffure . For a moment I am frightened by a terrifying vision . It is as if you are in another time , seeing that shell for the first time , and as if a glass wall had come ...
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