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Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches

by Maurice BARING (1874 - 1945)

THE SHADOW OF A MIDNIGHT- A GHOST STORY

In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in step or out of sorts, where they are meant to be or warned not to go, out of luck or, more often than not, in it. - Summary by A. Gramour

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Listen next episodes of Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches:
A CHINAMAN ON OXFORD , A LUNCHEON-PARTY , CHUN WA , DR. FAUST’S LAST DAY , EDWARD II. AT BERKELEY CASTLE BY AN EYE-WITNESS , FETE GALANTE , JEAN FRANCOIS , RUSSALKA , THE CONQUEROR , THE FIRE , THE FLUTE OF CHANG LIANG , THE FLUTE-PLAYER’S STORY , THE GARLAND , THE IKON , THE ISLAND , THE MAN WHO GAVE GOOD ADVICE , THE OLD WOMAN , THE SPIDER’S WEB , THE STAR , THE THIEF , VENUS , “WHAT IS TRUTH?”