Read Complete Short Stories Online
Authors: Robert Graves
My New-Bug’s Exam
:
The Green Chartreuse
, July 1913;
Goodbye to All That
(revised edition) London: Cassell & Co. Ltd.; New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1957.
Thames-side Reverie
: As ‘By a Thames Window’,
Evening News
, 26 February 1929;
OW
.
The Shout
:
The Shout
London: Elkin Matthews & Marot, 1929;
CSS
.
Avocado Pears
:
But It Still Goes On
, London & Toronto: Jonathan Cape, 1930;
OW
.
Old
Papa Johnson
:
But It Still Goes On
;
CSS
.
Interview with a Dead Man
: As part of ‘A Journal of Curiosities’ in
But It Still Goes On
;
OW
.
Está En Su Casa
: As ‘The Feud of St. Peter and St. Paul’ in
Tomorrow
, August 1947;
OW
.
Bins K to T
: As ‘Dead Man’s Bottles’ in
OW
; became ‘Bins K to T’ in first English edition of
OW
.
School Life in Majorca 1955
: As ‘School Life in Majorca’ in
Punch
, 6 January
1954;
MO
.
Bulletin of the College of St Modesto of Bobbio
: As ‘Bulletin of the College of St Francis of Assisi’
C
;
MO
.
Treacle Tart
:
Punch
, 17 February 1954;
CSS
.
Week-End at Cwm Tatws
:
Punch
, 31 March 1954;
CSS
.
The Full Length
:
Punch
, 31 March 1954;
CSS
.
God Grant Your Honour Many Years
:
Punch
, 31 May 1954;
CSS
.
6 Valiant Bulls 6
: As ‘Six Valiant Bulls’ in
Punch
, 23 June 1954;
CSS
.
Flesh-coloured
Net Tights
:
Punch
, 4 August 1954;
C
.
Thy Servant and God’s
:
Punch
, 18 August 1954;
MO
.
A Man May Not Marry His…
:
New Statesman
, 2 October 1954;
CSS
.
An Appointment for Candlemas
:
Punch
, 1 December 1954;
CSS
.
The Five Godfathers
:
Punch
, 29 December 1954;
CSS
.
The White Horse or ‘The Great Southern Ghost Story’
: As ‘The White Horse’ in
Punch
, 12 January 1955;
Five Pens in Hand
, New York: Doubleday
& Co. Inc., 1958.
Epics Are Out of Fashion
:
Punch
, 16 February 1955;
CSS
.
Earth to Earth
:
New Statesman
, 19 February 1955;
CSS
.
They Say… They Say
:
Punch
, 20 April 1955;
CSS
.
The Abominable Mr Gunn
:
Punch
, 29 June 1955;
CSS
.
The Whitaker Negroes
:
Encounter
, 21-29 July 1955;
CSS
.
Trín-Trín-Trín:
Punch
, 5 October 1955;
MO
.
Cambridge Upstairs
:
Punch
, 14 March 1956;
C
.
‘Ha, Ha!’ Chort-led
Nig-ger
:
Punch
, 21 March 1956;
C
.
Ditching in a Fishless Sea
:
Punch
, 5 September 1956;
MO
.
Period Piece
:
C
;
CSS
.
He Went Out to Buy a Rhine
:
C
;
CSS
.
Kill Them! Kill Them!
:
C
;
CSS
.
Harold Vesey at the Gates of Hell
:
C
;
CSS
.
Life of the Poet Gnaeus Robertulus Gravesa
:
C
;
Life of the Poet Gnaeus Robertulus Gravesa
, Deià, Mallorca: The New Seizin Press, 1990.
Ever Had a Guinea Worm?
:
C
.
A
Bicycle in Majorca
:
New Yorker
, 22 June 1957;
CSS
.
Evidence of Affluence
:
New Yorker
, 12 October 1957;
CSS
.
The French Thing
:
5 Pens in Hand
, New York: Doubleday & Co. 1958;
CSS
.
A Toast to Ava Gardner
:
New Yorker
, 26 April 1958;
CSS
.
The Viscountess and the Short-haired Girl
:
Gentleman’s Quarterly
, October 1958;
CSS
.
She Landed Yesterday
:
New Yorker
, 7 March 1959;
CSS
.
The Lost Chinese
:
Lilliput
, December 1959; as ‘The Case of the Difficult Husband’ in
Playboy
, January 1960;
CSS
.
You Win, Houdini!
:
London Magazine
, February 1960;
CSS
.
The Tenement: A Vision of Imperial Rome
: As ‘An Imperial Tale’ in
Holiday
, April 1960; as ‘The Apartment House’ in the American edition of
CSS
; English edition of
CSS
.
The Myconian
: As ‘The Gaudy Games’ in
Sports Illustrated
, 1 August 1960;
CSS
.
Christmas Truce
: As ‘Wave No Banners’ in the
Saturday Evening Post
, 15 December 1962;
CSS
.
My Best Christmas
:
Sunday Telegraph
, 23 December 1962;
The Crane Bag
, London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1969.
No, Mac, It Just Wouldn’t Work
:
Playboy
, January 1967.
Miss Briton’s Lady-Companion
:
Family Circle
, 24 September 1967;
The Crane Bag
, 1969.
My First Amorous Adventure
:
Playboy
, January 1972.
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From the introduction to
Occupation: Writer
, New York: Creative Age Press, 1950; London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1951.
1
A Jew in Christian disguise.
1
From Gaius Seutonius Tranquillus’s
Lives of the Britannic Poets
. Translation by W. Wadlington Postchaise (Loeb Classics, 1955).
1
He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid, Till at the end he could not change the tragic habits This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.
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About $30 for 150,000 words.