The rendezvous and other stories / [electronic resource] Patrick O'Brian.

The return -- The happy despatch -- The dawn flighting -- Not liking to pass the road again -- The slope of the high mountain -- The little death -- The Passeur -- The tunnel at the frontier -- The path -- The walker -- The soul -- Lying in the sun -- Billabillian -- The rendezvous -- The stag at bay -- Samphire -- The clockmender -- The Chian wine -- The virtuous Peleg -- A passage of the frontier -- The voluntary patient -- The long day running -- On the bog -- The lemon -- The last pool -- The handmaiden -- On the Wolfsberg.

Twenty-seven stories on subjects ranging from solitude to unhappy marriages, to sports. The Last Pool is on a fisherman's battle with a salmon, while Lying in the Sun paraphrases a husband's innermost thoughts as he sunbathes with his wife: If only she would go away he would be quite fond of her. By the author of The Wine-Dark Sea.