The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
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[...]a most important call at Hanbridge, and would I care to go with him in the car? I was and still am convinced that he was simply inventing. He wanted to break the sinister spell by getting out of the house, and he had not the face to suggest a sortie into the streets of the Five Towns as a promenade of pleasure. So we went forth, splashing warily through the rich mud and the dank mist of Trafalgar Road, past all those strange little Indian-red houses, and ragged empty spaces, and poster-hoardings, and rounded kilns, and[...].
Chapters (96)
- THE MATADOR OF THE FIVE TOWNS AND OTHER STORIES
- CONTENTS
- THE MATADOR OF THE FIVE TOWNS
- II
- VII
- VIII
- MIMI I
- II
- III
- IV
- VI
- THE SUPREME ILLUSION
- I
- THE LETTER AND THE LIE
- I
- III
- THE GLIMPSE[A]
- I
- III
- IV
- V
- JOCK-AT-A-VENTURE
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- THE HEROISM OF THOMAS CHADWICK
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- UNDER THE CLOCK
- I
- II
- III
- THREE EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF MR COWLISHAW, DENTIST
- I
- II
- CATCHING THE TRAIN
- I
- II
- III
- THE WIDOW OF THE BALCONY
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- THE CAT AND CUPID
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- THE FORTUNE TELLER
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- THE LONG-LOST UNCLE
- I
- II
- THE TIGHT HAND
- I
- II
- III
- WHY THE CLOCK STOPPED
- I
- II
- HOT POTATOES
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- HALF-A-SOVEREIGN
- THE BLUE SUIT
- I
- II
- III
- THE TIGER AND THE BABY
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- THE REVOLVER
- AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
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