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- ID
- b137
- Title
- "The Little Jeweller."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 29
- Word Count
- 6850
- Publisher
- Life and Letters To-day
- Publication Year
- 1940
- Topics
- Death, Age
A bachelor shopkeeper, physically and mentally weakened, is confined to a mental ward.
The story depicts him as he reflects on his life and fears his death, and his struggles to regain his health while surrounded by a sister, a lawyer, and doctors.
In Life and Letters To-day (April 1940), The Beauty of the Dead and Other Stories (1940), Thirty-One Selected Tales (1947), The Good Corn and Other Stories (1974), Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories (1989).
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