The Stars of Constantinople

over a period of some thirty-five years and provide an excellent introduction to his fiction. They embrace a range of emotions and experiences, from the innocence of childhood in the isolation of the countryside, to the loneliness of life in a growing town, to the frustrations of old age. The two long stories with which the collection begins, "The Changing Earth" and "Pastor Bodvar's Letter," represent the two poles of that range. In the first the effects of the.