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The Battle of Berkeley Square

Michael Arlen

First published 1925
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Questionably speculative story: while under anaesthesia for an appendicitis operation, a man imagines that he has died and his soul is occupying the body of his sister-in-law (who has been sedated because she is giving birth)--or did the soul transference actually happen briefly?

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1925 Cover May Fair: Being an Entertainment Purporting to Reveal to Gentlefolk the Real State of Affairs Existing in the Very Heart of London During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fifth: Together with Suitable Reflections on the Last Follies, Misadventures and Galanteries of These Charming People George H. Doran Collection 116
1925 May Fair: Being an Entertainment Purporting to Reveal to Gentlefolk the Real State of Affairs Existing in the Very Heart of London During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fifth: Together with Suitable Reflections on the Last Follies, Misadventures and Galanteries of These Charming People George H. Doran Collection
1925 Cover May Fair: The Ace of Cads and Other Stories Grosset & Dunlap Collection
May 1925 Cover May Fair: Being an Entertainment Purporting to Reveal to Gentlefolk the Real State of Affairs Existing in the Very Heart of London During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fifth: Together with Suitable Reflections on the Last Follies, Misadventures, and Galanteries of These Charming People Collins Collection 96
June 1925 May Fair: Being an Entertainment Purporting to Reveal to Gentlefolk the Real State of Affairs Existing in the Very Heart of London During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fifth: Together with Suitable Reflections on the Last Follies, Misadventures, and Galanteries of These Charming People Collins Collection 96
1931 May Fair Collins Collection
1934 Cover The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories Hutchinson Anthology 611