# The golden windmill, and other stories

Author: Aumonier, Stacy, 1887-1928

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74926

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+golden+windmill%2C+and+other+stories+Aumonier&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

As you know, it is considered rather provocative to launch a book of short stories. It is asking for trouble. The least I can do is to offer a brief apology; and I cannot do this without writing a preface, which requires an apology in itself. Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business. Having written the stories I would rather talk about anything else—old furniture, for instance. Perhaps my best policy will be to start by attacking you, O Reader, friend or enemy, as the case may be. You are a most exacting fellow. Far more exacting than a reader of novels, or works of reference, or even histories; for the reason that your criticism follows a more circums...

## Chapters

- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-golden-windmill-and-other-stories-74926/chapters/13/index.md)