Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. TALES
6. An Old Fable Retold 23
7. Fables for the Times-I 26
8. Fables for the Times-II 27
9. Aristos and Demos 28
10. A Dream of Queer Fishes (A Modern Prose Idyll) 34
11. Chips 37
12. Nobody’s Business 41
13. The History of a Giant 45
14. The Man without a Heart 53
15. A Terrible Crime 61
16. Tom Hickathrift 65
17. Jack Clearhead 71
18. The Four Friends 98
19. The Princesses 102
20. The New Shilling 103
21. The Harebell’s Sermon 110
22. Little Red Riding Hood 112
23. A Mystery 125
24. Odin and his One Eye 129
25. The Elves and Fairies 133
26. A Monkey Story 137
27. Elfhome (Charlie’s Garden) 143
28. A Fairy Tale for Tired Socialists 147
29. The Golden Egg 150
30. When Death Crossed the Threshold 153
31. The Doll Shop 161
32. The Scarlet Shoes. (The Story of a Serio-comic Walking Tour and its Tragic End.) 165
33. He, She, and It 172
34. An Idyll of the Dover Road. A True Story 178
35. His Sister. A Little Spangle of Real Life 181
36. “Happy Valley.” A Fairy Tale 184
37. The Peasants and the Parasites. A Fable 191
38. The Eternal Feminine 196
39. The Myopians’ Muddle 200
40. A Martian’s Visit to Earth. Being a Literal Translation into English of the Preface to an Account by a Martian of his Visit to England 204
41. Nightmare Bridge 214
42. The Fool and the Wise Man 220
43. The May-Day Festival in the Year 1970 222
44. Mary Davis; or the Fate of a Proletarian Family. A Lesson Given to the Glasgow S.L.P. Socialist Sunday School 229
45. The Lost Vision. A Spring Fantasy 244
46. The Aerial Armada. What Took Place in A.D. 2000 249
47. Mr. Prowser-Wowser 254
48. Behind the Wall 263
49. Alice in Sunderland. A Baffling Mystery 267
50. It Can’t Be Done! A History of Impossibilities 272
51. Notes 279
52. References 301
53. Notes on Authors 305
54. Notes on Journals 313