TY - BOOK AU - Carter, Angela AU - Rushdie, Salman TI - Burning your boats: collected short stories SN - 0099592916 : U1 - 823.914 PY - 1996/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - English fiction, 1945- - Short stories N1 - Reprint. Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1995; The man who loved a double bass -- A very, very great lady and her son at home -- A Victorian fable -- 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 -- Elegy for a freelance -- The bloody chamber -- The courtship of Mr. Lyon -- The tiger's bride -- Puss-in-Boots -- The Erl-King -- The snow child -- The lady of the House of Love -- The werewolf -- The company of wolves -- Wolf-Alice -- Black Venus -- The kiss -- Our Lady of the massacre -- The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe -- Overture and incidental music for `A midsummer night's dream' -- Peter and the wolf -- The kitchen child -- The Fall River axe murders -- Lizzie's tiger -- John Ford's `Tis pity she's a whore' -- Gun for the Devil -- The merchant of shadows -- The ghost ships -- In Pantoland -- Ashputtle or the mother's ghost -- Alice in Prague or the curious room Impressions: the Wrightsman Magdalene -- The scarlet house -- The snow pavilion -- The quilt maker ER -