7 Stories and a Play

Seven Stories and a Play are light reading, meant to entertain: the Viscount Cavalier in Englands Civil War; the physicist who invented a time machine that deliveredits passengers direct to eternity; a conservation effort thatnever got off the ground; the disillusionments of marriage, old and young; a murder unravelled; beating the genie, anda money-hungry Roman domina who has to be got out of town.