Of the previous century\'s many great storytellers, Sylvia Townsend Warner was the supreme enchantress.
There are Stories of romantic love and the mysteries of marriage; of artists who speak the truth even as they distort reali.
They span a full half-century, from 1929 to 1977, and are crowded with irrepressible, living characters and even more animated objects and incidents.
The Music at Long Verney collects Twenty of her best short stories, most of them from the great years at The New Yorker.
Of the previous century\'s many great storytellers, Sylvia Townsend Warner was the supreme enchantress