In Brief Authority

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781776589173
• Edition: 0

In this darkly hilarious World War I-era satire, an affluent British family finds itself being whisked away to a land of fairies, where the matriarch is crowned as queen. They gradually begin to introduce British mores and traditions in their new land -- with decidedly mixed results.

Table of contents

• IN BRIEF AUTHORITY
• Contents
• Author's Note
• Chapter I - "The Skirts of Happy Chance"
• Chapter II - Rushing to Conclusions
• Chapter III - Fine Feathers
• Chapter IV - Crowned Heads
• Chapter V - Dignity Under Difficulties
• Chapter VI - Cares of State
• Chapter VII - A Game They Did Not Understand
• Chapter VIII - "A Steed that Knows His Rider"
• Chapter IX - The Pleasures of the Table
• Chapter X - The Blonde Beast
• Chapter XI - A Way Out
• Chapter XII - Unwelcome Announcements
• Chapter XIII - What the Pigeon Said
• Chapter XIV - Bag and Baggage
• Chapter XV - "Riven with Vain Endeavour"
• Chapter XVI - "A Cloud That's Dragonish"
• Chapter XVII - The Reward of Valour
• Chapter XVIII - A Previous Engagement
• Chapter XIX - Servants of the Queen
• Chapter XX - At the End of Her Tether
• Chapter XXI - "Whose Lights Are Fled, Whose Garlands Dead"
• Chapter XXII - Squaring Accounts
• Epilogue