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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10128 Heaney, Seamus. Seeing Things. 1991.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11890 Berger, John. The Look of Things. 1972.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12652 King, Stephen. Needful Things. 1991.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13861 O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. 1990.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=15251 Glyn, Elinor. The Price of Things. 1919.

See our entry on Elinor Glyn.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=15258 Glyn, Elinor. The Price of Things. 1930.

See our entry on Elinor Glyn.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=15920 Diski, Jenny. After These Things. 2004.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=25288 James, Henry. “The Real Thing”. 1892.

Henry James’s story “The Real Thing” first appeared on April 16 1892 in Black and White magazine and was later included in volume XVIII of the New York Edition (1907-09) with “Daisy Miller” and eight other short stories. One of James’s “art parables”, as Richard A. Hocks calls them (Hocks, 37), “The Real Thing” is a compact, complex tale concerning the disparity between reality and illusion in art. Suggested to James by an incident related by his friend the Punch cartoonist George Du Maurier, the “strange and striking couple” ( The Art of the Novel , 283) in “The Real Thing” raise issues about the relationship between art and life that recur frequently in James’s criticism as well as in his many stories about artists and writers. In James’s tale Major and Mrs Monarch have heard that the narrator-artist is hoping for a commission to illustrate a series of novels for which they believe they would make ideal model

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=25379 Lochhead, Liz. Good Things. 2004.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=26708 Moore, Alan. Swamp Thing. 1985.