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| "The world Walter de la Mare fixed in his gaze at once veiled and half-disclosed a realm beyond sense and time. The meaning and the reality of things lie off-centre, off stage. What delights and moves him, what mystifies and disturbs him, derives its beauty and power from the unseen and the unknown. [...] De la Mare has the power to penetrate the surface of things and leave the reader dissatisfied with the opacity of a world seen by less piecing eyes." |
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Walter de la Mare
(1873-1956) has always been best known for his poetry, but for many people,
W H Auden and Graham Greene included, his prose merits comparison with the richness
of Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson. Moreover, Angela Carter notes the
resemblance that de la Mare's stories have to the vivid and unsettling intensity
of the French Surrealists. Over the years his work has influenced writers from
W H Auden and William Golding to Russell Hoban and Richard Adams.
Henry
Brocken
(1904), The Return (1910) and Memoirs of a Midget (1921)
are de la Mare's three full-length novels. The main short stories collections
from those listed below are The Riddle and Other
Stories (1923),
Ding Dong Bell (1924), The Connoisseur and
Other Stories (1926), On the Edge (1930), The
Wind Blows Over
(1936), A Beginning and Other Stories (1955)
and Walter
de la Mare, Short Stories 1895-1926 (1996) and Walter de la Mare,
Short Stories 1927-1956 (2000).
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Henry Brocken: His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable
Regions of Romance, London, J. Murray, 1904; London, Collins, 1924; London,
Faber, 1942
The Return, London, Arnold, 1910; 1922
Memoirs Of A Midget, illustrated by Florence Thompson, London, Collins, 1921; illustrated by Mabel Lapthorn, London, Collins, 1933
Lispet, Lispett, And Vaine, engravings by W.P. Robins, London, The Bookman's Journal, 1923
The Riddle and Other Stories, London, Selwyn and Blount, 1923
Ding Dong Bell, London, Selwyn and Blount, 1924; London, Faber, 1936
Two Tales: The Green-Room, The Connoisseur, London, The Bookman's Journal, 1925
The Connoisseur and Other Stories, London, Collins, 1926
Seaton's Aunt, wood engraving by Blair Hughes Stanton, London, Faber, 1927
At First Sight, New York, Crosby Gaige, 1928
On the Edge: Short Stories, wood engravings by Elizabeth Rivera, London, Faber, 1930
Seven Short Stories, illustrated by John Nash, London, Faber, 1931
The Walter De La Mare Omnibus: Henry Brocken, The Return, Memoirs of a Midget, London, Collins, 1933
A Froward Child, London, Faber, 1934
The Nap and Other Stories, London, Nelson, 1936
The Wind Blows Over, London, Faber, 1936
Stories, Essays and Poems, edited by M.M. Bozman, London, Dent, 1938
The Picnic and Other Stories, London, Faber, 1941
Best Stories of Walter de la Mare, London, Faber, 1942
The Almond Tree, London, Todd Publishing Co., 1943
The Orgy, London, Todd Publishing Co., 1943
Collected Tales of Walter de la Mare, edited by Edward Wagenknecht, Knopf, 1950
A Beginning and Other Stories, London, Faber, 1955
Walter de la Mare: A Selection from his Writings, edited by Kenneth Hopkins, London, Faber, 1956
Best Stories, London, Faber, 1957
Some Stories, London, Faber, 1962
Eight Tales, Arkham House, 1971
Walter de la Mare, Short Stories 1895-1926, edited by Giles de la Mare, Giles de la Mare Publishers, 1996
Walter de la Mare, Short Stories 1927-1956, edited by Giles de la Mare, Giles de la Mare Publishers, 2001
The Return, New York, Dover Publications, 1997