Marjorie Daw (short story)

"Marjorie Daw" is a short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. One of Aldrich's first short stories, and his most famous,[1] it was first published in 1869 (in book form in 1873, in Marjorie Daw and Other People), and remains in print to this day.[2]

The story, which is written entirely as a series of letters between two friends, concerns the invention of an imaginary young woman, Marjorie Daw, by one correspondent, intended as a harmless diversion. When the other correspondent becomes madly smitten with the imaginary Miss Daw, the first correspondent is forced to confess his ruse. The story ends thus: "For oh, dear Jack, there isn't any piazza, there isn't any hammock - there isn't any Marjorie Daw!"

Anthologies containing Majorie Daw

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  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories, Alexander Jessup (ed.), 1920, Boni & Liveright (at Google Books)
  • Family Book of Best Loved Short Stories, Leleand W. Lawrence (ed.), 1954, Hanover House
  • Great American Short Stories, Volume 2, audibook, 2008, BiblioLife, ISBN 978-0-554-31117-3
  • Short Story Classics: The Best from the Masters of the Genre

References

  1. ↑ Description at answers.com
  2. ↑ amazon.com page for Majorie Daw and other Short Works
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