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- ID
- b318
- Title
- "The Yellow Meads of Asphodel."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 20
- Word Count
- 5300
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Publication Year
- 1976
- Document Types
- Uncollected Antemortem
- Topics
- Love Triangle, Siblings
A brother and sister, both in their forties, live together in the country house left to them by their parents.
Their lives are uprooted when she falls in love and feels like one of "those happy souls who dwell in yellow meads of asphodel" (from "Ode on St. Cecilia's Day" by Alexander Pope).
Included in the collection The Yellow Meads of Asphodel (1976) and also published separately at the same time in a limited edition, with illustrations by John Ward, to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the publisher (London: Michael Joseph, August 1976).
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