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Under the Garden

Graham Greene

First published 1963
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

"A man under medical sentence of death (a diagnosis of cancer) goes back to his childhood home and recalls there an amazing dream which he had falsified and conventionalized in a story written long ago for his school magazine. The central figure of the dream was a comic, foul-mouthed monarch of an unsuspected world 'under the garden,' which is entered by the little boy through a cave formed out of the enormous roots of an ancient tree." (Milton Hindus)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1963 Cover A Sense of Reality The Viking Press Collection 3
1963 A Sense of Reality The Bodley Head Collection
1963 A Sense of Reality The Bodley Head Collection 7
August 1963 A Sense of Reality The Viking Press Collection 3
June 1977 Cover Strangeness: A Collection of Curious Tales Charles Scribner's Sons Anthology 205
December 1978 Cover Strangeness Avon Anthology 245
1981 A Sense of Reality Penguin Books Collection 9
October 1989 Cover Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder GuildAmerica Books / SFBC Anthology 451
December 1990 A Sense of Reality and Other Stories Listening Library Collection
September 1993 Cover Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder Longmeadow Press Anthology 451
June 1994 Cover Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder St. Martin's Press Anthology 451
1995 Cover Under the Garden Penguin Books Chapbook