"The World is Too Much With Us."
A comic tale about a reclusive man and a hen, who live together in domestic bliss until a buxom widow disrupts their eccentric liaison. Baldwin notes the tale's debt to David Garnett's story "Lady into Fox." In The Golden Oriole (1962). Reprinted in Woman's Journal (February 1963), Short Story International (4, 1965).
ID:
b279
Title:
"The World is Too Much With Us."
Genre:
Novella
Page Count:
31
Word Count:
ca. 7700
Publisher:
Short Story International
Woman's Journal
Year of Publication:
1962
Topic:
Animals
Love Triangle
Document Type:
Comic Fiction