
"A Souvenir of Japan", "The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter", "The Loves of Lady Purple", "The Smile of Winter", "Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest", "Flesh and the Mirror", "Master", "Reflections" and "Elegy for a Freelance". "The Man Who Loved a Double Bass", "A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home" and "A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)". The book also includes an introduction by author Salman Rushdie. It includes stories previously collected in her other short story collections: Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces ( 1974), The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories ( 1979), Black Venus (aka Saints and Strangers) ( 1985) and American Ghosts and Old World Wonders ( 1993) as well as six previously un-collected stories.



Cover of the first edition, published by Chatto & Windus.īurning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories ( 1995) is a posthumously-published collection of short stories by English writer Angela Carter.
