The Riddle and Other Stories
THE RIDDLE
AND OTHER STORIES
By the same Author
Poetry
- THE LISTENERS and other Poems
- PEACOCK PIE: A Book of Rhymes
- MOTLEY and other Poems
- POEMS 1901-1918
- A CHILD'S DAY
- SONGS OF CHILDHOOD
- THE VEIL and other Poems
- DOWN A DOWN DERRY
Prose
- HENRY BROCKEN
- THE RETURN
- THE THREE MULLA MULGARS
- MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET
- STORY & RHYME
THE RIDDLE
AND OTHER STORIES
BY
WALTER DE LA MARE
SELWYN & BLOUNT LIMITED
21 YORK BUILDINGS, ADELPHI
LONDON
First printed, May 1923
Printed in England at The Kynoch Press
CONTENTS
- The Almond Tree, P. 1
- The Count's Courtship, P. 38
- The Looking Glass, P. 5 5
- Miss Duveen, P. 69
- Selina'S Parable, P. 90
- Seaton's Aunt, P. 97
- The Bird of Travel, P. 142
- The Bowl, P. 178
- The Three Friends, P. 169
- Lispet, Lispett & Vaine, P. 178
- The Tree, P. 20 5
- Out of the Deep, P. 232
- The Creatures, P. 273
- The Riddle, P. 289
- The Vats, P. 29
- Advertisements
to Russell Loines
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