Mockery Gap
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Mockery Gap

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Mockery Gap

About this book

Mockery Gap is the story of a tiny village on the coast of England, and a series of events arising out of the complex currents set flowing in this simple community by the chance remarks of a chance visitor. This is Mr James Tarr, a gentleman of ethnological pursuits with a desire to impress himself firmly upon people. He exercises this passion on the inhabitants of Mockery Gap, and the effect of carefully-weighted suggestion upon minds given to credulity and superstition makes for far-reaching and devastating consequences.
"By all conventional standards, T F Powys is the least modern of writers. His novels and short stories are set in a landscape as far removed as possible from anything smart or urban - a fantastical version of English village life, in which human emotions work themselves out against a backdrop of brooding countryside... Writing as an allegorist or fabulist rather than any sort of conventional realist, Theodore Powys looks not to the present or the future, but to the past. He sets his tales in a grotesquely exaggerated rural landscape, not because he has any nostalgia for the way of life it may once have contained, but because, by doing so, he is free to strip human beings down to their barest elements - their lust, greed, cruelty and stupidity, and the mixture of dread and yearning with which they respond to the prospect of death." John Gray, New Statesman

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2011
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571279050
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Chapter 1 : THE SEA
  5. Chapter 2 : THE BLIND COW
  6. Chapter 3 : THE NELLIE-BIRD
  7. Chapter 4 : A WARNING
  8. Chapter 5 : ‘DON’T STRAY’
  9. Chapter 6 : GOD SIMON
  10. Chapter 7 : A TRUE NELLIE
  11. Chapter 8 : ‘ONE OF THEY PRINGS’
  12. Chapter 9 : LED BY THE FLOWERS
  13. Chapter 10 : MRS. PATTIMORE IS LATE FOR DINNER
  14. Chapter 11 : AN UGLY THING
  15. Chapter 12 : GODFATHER PATTIMORE
  16. Chapter 13 : MISS PINK FEARS THAT SOME­THING IS COMING
  17. Chapter 14 : MR. PRING TALKS TO THE STONES
  18. Chapter 15 : THE FISHERMAN WILL NOT BE ROUSED
  19. Chapter 16 : THE WHITE MICE
  20. Chapter 17 : A BROWN RIBBON
  21. Chapter 18 : SOMETHING HAPPENS
  22. Chapter 19 : THE END OF MR. DOBBIN
  23. Chapter 20 : MR. PATTIMORE SEES A VISION
  24. Chapter 21 : FISH TO PLEASE A NELLIE
  25. Chapter 22 : MR. CADDY SETS A SNARE
  26. Chapter 23 : MR. PATTIMORE FINDS HIS KITE
  27. Chapter 24 : MOCKERY WOOD
  28. Chapter 25 : THE LOVE MESSAGE
  29. Chapter 26 : SILENT BELLS
  30. Chapter 27 : MRS. TOPPLE GOES TO HEAVEN
  31. Chapter 28 : STRANGE FISH
  32. Chapter 29 : THE OTHER MARY
  33. Chapter 30 : MR. RODDY SETS OUT FOR A SAIL
  34. Chapter 31 : A BED OF WITHIES
  35. Chapter 32 : MR. RODDY LOSES HIS LETTERS
  36. Chapter 33 : SUNDAY TROUSERS
  37. Chapter 34 : THE SIREN
  38. About the Author
  39. Copyright

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