An Ancestral Invasion and Other Stories

Overview:

  • Title: An Ancestral Invasion and Other Stories
  • Author: Madeline Yale Wynne
  • Year: 1920
  • Publisher: The Country Life Press
  • Pages: 164
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: An Ancestral Invasion and Other Stories
  • Notes:
    • First edition.
    • Some of the 12 stories are non-genre. Contents listed below are the only two supernatural stories. Some others may be appropriate.
    • "Selected by Annie Cabot Putnam" --title page "The late Mr. Philip H. Wynne, her son, and her friend Miss Anna Cabot Putnam selected and edited these stories" --foreword
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of 4 copies, all with original non-pictorial cover (gold lettering on dark grey-green cloth): -- title page shows:   The Country Life Press   Garden City   New York   1920 -- t.p. verso: copyrights 1920 by Putnam, 1897/98 by The Atlantic Monthly
    • Some data were from L.W. Currey, now a redundant source.
    "An Experiment in Time" involves the narrator meeting a kobold (also known as a sprite) and discussing ways to travel back to the time of her youth.