By the north gate
(Book)

"Stories concern themselves with problems and situations that youth knows: the conflict between the hope of the young and the pessimism of the old; the realization of the injustices of the civilized order; the horror of the senseless cruelty condoned by society; the reality of evil, existing even in the good and the loving; brutality witout motivation...the senseless machinations of fate that condition all of life." -- dust jacket. Stamps -- The census taker -- Ceremonies -- Sweet love remembered -- Boys at a picnic -- Pastoral blood -- An encounter with the blind -- Images -- Edge of the world -- A legacy -- In the old world -- The fine white mist of winter -- The expense of spirit -- By the North Gate.