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The Stranger

Walter de la Mare

First published 1955
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A dialogue: a schoolgirl tells her mother about a man she met on the way home; his identity is eventually revealed among arguments about young women's relations to the opposite sex.

First published in the London Magazine, September 1954.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1955 Cover A Beginning and Other Stories Faber and Faber Collection 38
November 1955 Cover A Beginning and Other Stories Faber and Faber Collection 38
July 2001 Cover Short Stories 1927-1956 Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection 372
July 2012 Cover Short Stories 1927-1956 Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection