Jesse Ball

The Village on Horseback


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      Table of Contents

       Also by Jesse Ball

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Introduction

       parables and lies - 2003

       ONE

       The Coming Upon A Play

       The Palace

       A Bird’s Judgment

       A Visitor

       Banditry

       A Lark

       The Bank of Perth

       The Suitors

       The Seamstress of Bao Suk

       One Door or Two

       Trickery

       TWO

       A Letter

       Before the Emperor

       An Argument I Chanced To See

       A System of Letter-Writing

       Parable of the Lamp

       A Badger told a Rat

       The Infant Elsbet

       A Statuette

       The Hospital

       Mention

       A Scene

       An Emerald

       THREE

       Claus Valta

       Of the Secret City

       Parable of Life’s Wake

       Unnoticed Offenses

       To Knock at an Unknown Door

       Mutterings

       The Book

       A Fortune

       A Man Whose

       A Gift

       The Carriage Driver

       Three Visitors

       EXCEPTED

       A Measure

       picnic in ten years’ time - 2004

       Chapter 1 - Bestiary nos. 1–17

       It Was a Later Century

       Arravelli’s “View of Loum,” 1542.

       The Privileged Girl Speaks

       Bestiary 1

       A Set Piece

       Bestiary 2

       A Turn

       That Season

       Bestiary 3

       First Verse

       Parades