Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Stories Author:J.I.M. Stewart These four storiesby a master storyteller all have fascinating and fully rounded characters, all develop mounting suspense, and all have endings that at once surprise and convince and delight. — The themes are various: a Napoleonic-era love affair that seems to parallel a poem of Shelly's and to have a present-day spiritual effect; a superannuate... more »d Oxford don who tries to bridge the generation gap; the unexpected results of a scholar's foray into literary biography; and what happens when an injured connoisseur receives the transplant of an artist's hand.« less