The Skeleton's Holiday

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine. ' These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement are masterpieces of invention and grand-guignol humour. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Product details

• Authors: Leonora Carrington
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780241339169
• ISBN: 978-0-241-33916-9
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 162 mm x 7 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern; Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Short Stories, Classic fiction: general and literary