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Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories - Stories of Spain Russia and Corsica - cover

Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories - Stories of Spain Russia and Corsica

Henry Seton Merriman

Publisher: Aeneas Press

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Summary

Stories from a man who traveled where he wrote: a Spanish beggar boy who inherits, a Russian border, a Corsican vendetta, an English country house with a secret. Merriman was Hugh Stowell Scott, a Lloyd's underwriter who used a pen name so the City would not learn he wrote novels, and died at forty-one. His short work is tighter than his novels and half-forgotten. Sixty plates of sea light, village streets and roadside beggars by painters including Edvard Munch and Ilya Repin carry the same wandering, hard-luck Europe these stories walk through.
Available since: 08/19/2026.
Print length: 199 pages.

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