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Aiken, Joan
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Fiction
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2011
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Small Beer Press
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English
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The Monkey's Wedding: And Other Stories
โ Scribed by Aiken, Joan
- Book ID
- 109944527
- Publisher
- Small Beer Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 129 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781931520744
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Praise for Joan Aiken:
"Joan Aiken's invention seemed inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest a phenomenon. She was a literary treasure, and her books will continue to delight for many years to come."--Philip Pullman
"Aiken writes with the genius of a born storyteller, with mother wit expanded and embellished by civilized learning, and with the brilliance of an avenging angel."--The New Yorker
Joan Aiken's stories captivated readers for fifty years. They're funny, smart, gentle, and occasionally very, very scary. The stories in The Monkey's Wedding are collected here for the very first time and include six never before published, as well as two previously published under the pseudonym Nicholas Dee. Here you'll find the story of a village for sale . . . or is the village itself the story? There's an English vicar who declares on his deathbed that he might have lived an entirely different life. After his...
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