Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

Plum Pudding by Christopher Morley is a collection of short stories, much like the varied and scrumptious ingredients of plum pudding, which each in their sublime deliciousness contribute to the creation of the whole: English culture. Excerpt: «Express train stalled in a snowdrift,» said one. «The irascible old white-haired gentleman in the Pullman smoker; the good-natured traveling salesman; the wistful young widow in the day coach, with her six-year-old blue-eyed little daughter. A coal-black Pullman porter who braves the shrieking gale to bring in a tree from the copse along the track…»