Short Fiction Pain, Barry: Cynthia’s Love Affairs (illus). v1. 31 Dec 2022

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In this sequence of stories, written early in Barry Pain’s career, Cynthia recounts her experiences with the opposite sex, beginning when she was a child with a recipe for licorice-water.

She is self-aware and straight-forward (not a stereotypical Victorian “lady”), and touches of humor and pathos season her tales.

Available with or without illustrations.

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Barry Eric Odell Pain (28 Sep. 1864 – 05 May 1928) was an English journalist, poet, humorist and writer. During his lifetime, he was perhaps best known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories, but now is also noted for his tales touched with fantasy, horror, and the supernatural. He also wrote stories of mystery and suspense. His humor has been characterized by some modern critics as “a surreal forerunner to Monty Python.”

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These stories by Barry Pain (1864–1928), illustrated by Gordon Browne (1858–1932) and William Douglas Almond (1868–1916), first appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine Dec. 1893 – May 1894. This book is in the public domain where copyright is “Life+90” or less, and in the USA.
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