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Information

• Published by:
  • Souvenir Press, 1997, UK.
  • Ace, 1998, USA.
• Edited by: Peter Haining

• Contains:
  • “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life”

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Covers

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German Covers – Scheibenwahn

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Information

• Published by:
  • Reader’s Digest, 1978, USA.
• Edited by: Reader’s Digest
• With drawings by Joseph Papin

• Contains:
  • “Parson’s Pleasure”

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Covers

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Information

• Published by:
  • Simon & Schuster, 1977, USA.
• Edited by: Alexis Bespaloff

• Contains:
  • “Taste”

• Also contains:
  • “Wine of Paris” byMarcel Ayme
  • “What You Always Wanted to Ask About Wine” by Russell Baker
  • “It Puckers Your Mouth” by Art Buchwald
  • “Earliest Wine Memories” by Colette
  • “Last Bottle in the World” by Stanley Ellin
  • “Vineyard Confrontation” by Idwal Jones
  • “‘Spanish Champagne’ Case” by Robert Keeling
  • “Aged and a Great Wine” by George Meredith
  • “Winesmanship” by Stephen Potter
  • “But Then, How It Was Sweet!” by G.B. Stern
  • “Greatest Wine in the World” by Bruce Todd

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Description

Some of the world’s greatest wine lovers – with here and there a dissenting voice – celebrate the glories and pleasures of wine and the many roles it plays in life itself’. Many notables give their two cents worth in this volume about wine: Benjamin Franklin, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, Andre Simon, Roald Dahl, Art Buchwald and many more. Discussions, essays, poetry, anecdotes and personal comments… from Lord Byron (Don Juan) – “Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain – Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda-water the day after”.

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Covers

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Information

Fifty Years: Being A Retrospective Collection…
Of Novels, Novellas, Tales, Drama, Poetry, And Reportage and Essays
(whether literary, musical, contemplative, historical,
biographical, argumentative, or gastronomical)
All Drawn from Volumes Issued During The Last Half–Century
by Alfred & Blanche Knopf

• Published by:
  • Knopf, 1965, USA.
• Edited by: Clifton Fadiman

• Contains:
  • “The Landlady”

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Covers

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Information

• Published by:
  • Octopus Books, 1980, UK.
• Edited by: Elizabeth Bland

• Contains:
  • “Beware of the Dog”

• Also contains:
  • “The Story of the Bagman’s Uncle” by Charles Dickens
  • “Love of Life” by Jack London
  • “Facing The Storm” by Joseph Conrad
  • “War Games” by Keith Miles
  • “A Descent Into The Maelstrom” by Edgar Allan Poe
  • “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
  • “Free Men” by Andre Devigny
  • “Springing the Trap” by Anthony Hope
  • “Ceremonies of the Horsemen” by P. L. Frankson
  • “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allen Poe
  • “Lord Nithsdale’s Escape” by John Buchan
  • “An Awkward Sortie” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • “Cute Pie” by Nicholas Fisk
  • “Bid for Freedom” by W. B. Thomas
  • “The Perfect Rendezvous” by Lawrence Durrell
  • “Jeeves and the Impending Doom” by P. G. Wodehouse
  • “The Fugitive” by Maxwell Gray
  • “The Three Strangers” by Thomas Hardy
  • “A Place in the Sun” by Charles H. Russell
  • “The Bell” by William Maginn
  • “A Question of Passports” by Baroness Orczy

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Covers

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Information

• Published by:
  • Random House, 1980, U.S.A.
• Edited by: Bill Pronzini

• Contains:
  • Introduction by Bill Pronzini
  • 1947: “The Adventure of the Mad Tea-Party,” by Ellery Queen
  • 1948: “After-Dinner Story,” by William Irish
  • 1950: “Catfish Story,” by Lawrence G. Blochman
  • 1952: “Love Lies Bleeding,” by Philip MacDonald
  • 1953: “Lamb to the Slaughter,” by Roald Dahl
  • 1954: “The House Party,” by Stanley Ellin
  • 1956: “The Blessington Method,” by Stanley Ellin
  • 1958: “Over There-Darkness,” by William O’ Farrell
  • 1959: “The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl
  • 1962: “The Sailing Club,” by David Ely
  • 1962 Special Award: “This Will Kill You,” by Patrick Quentin
  • 1964: “H as in Homicide,” by Lawrence Treat
  • 1966: “The Chosen One,” by Rhys Davies
  • 1967: “The Oblong Room,” by Edward D. Hoch
  • 1968: “The Man Who Fooled the World,” by Warner Law
  • 1969: “Goodbye, Pops,” by Joe Gores
  • 1970: “In the Forests of Riga the Beasts Are Very Wild Indeed,” by Margery Finn Brown
  • 1971: “Moonlight Gardener,” by Robert L. Fish
  • 1972: “The Purple Shroud,” by Joyce Harrington
  • 1973: “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs,” by Harlan Ellison
  • 1975: “The Jail,” by Jesse Hill Ford
  • 1976: “Like a Terrible Scream,” by Etta Revesz
  • 1977: “Chance after Chance,” by Thomas Walsh
  • 1978: “The Cloud Beneath the Eaves,” by Barbara Owens
  • Edgar and Special Awards

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Covers