Tales and Imaginings Book

Of this collection of largely unpublished short stories, the author writes: "Throughout most of my life, at intervals and very slowly, I have written pieces of fiction. Now that they have bulked up enough to be called a collection, it is a curious experience for me to read through them. Do I recognise their authors? I seem to enter a room of mirrors situated at various distances in the past. This young man aglow with the Orient, this dweller in European cities subject to metaphysical aftershocks, this Atlantic hermit with his mate, this word-logged pet-loving contemplative - none is exactly me, but I can see that each to a degree is responsible for me. And so I bear a reciprocal responsibility, want to take their shortcomings on my shoulders. Hence the decision to publish them from my home rather than let another house send them out. But, once having left, they are essentially on their own."Read More