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Postern of Fate
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First published in Great Britain by
Collins 1973
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Source ISBN: 9780006165279
Ebook Edition © Jan 2015 ISBN: 9780007422739
Version: 2017-04-17
For Hannibal and his master
Four great gates has the city of Damascus …
Postern of Fate, the Desert Gate, Disaster’s Cavem,
Fort of Fear …
Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing.
Have you heard
That silence where the birds are dead, yet something
pipeth like a bird?
from Gates of Damascus by James Elroy Flecker
Contents
CHAPTER 1: Mainly Concerning Books
CHAPTER 3: Visit to the Cemetery
CHAPTER 5: The White Elephant Sale
CHAPTER 2: Introduction to Mathilde, Truelove and kk
CHAPTER 3: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
CHAPTER 4: Expedition on Truelove; Oxford and Cambridge
CHAPTER 5: Methods of Research
CHAPTER 2: Research by Tuppence
CHAPTER 3: Tommy and Tuppence Compare Notes
CHAPTER 4: Possibility of Surgery on Mathilde
CHAPTER 5: Interview With Colonel Pikeaway
CHAPTER 8: Reminiscences About an Uncle
CHAPTER 10: Attack on Tuppence
CHAPTER 11: Hannibal Takes Action