Copyright © 1983 by Louis Auchincloss
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Auchincloss, Louis.
Narcissa, and other fables.
Contents: Narcissa—The seagull—The ghost of Hamlet’s ghost—[etc.]
I. Title.
PS3501.U25N3 1983 813’.54 82-12086
ISBN 0-395-33114-5
eISBN 978-0-547-97046-2
v2.0421
“The Seagull” first appeared in the Atlantic, May 1979.
“The Ghost of Hamlet’s Ghost” first appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, June 1971.
“The Cup of Coffee” first appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal, July 1973.
“Marley’s Chain” first appeared in House and Garden, December 1980.
“Sketches of the Nineteen Seventies” first appeared, in part, as “Stories of Death and Society” in the New York magazine, July 23, 1973.