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''Gene Wolfe's Book of Days'' is a short story collection by American science fiction author Gene Wolfe published in 1981 by Doubleday. The stories within the collection are each paired with a holiday within the calendar year that is thematically linked to the content of the story. Thus, a story about the resurgence of slavery ("How the Whip Came Back") is dedicated to Lincoln's Birthday. The material here was combined with ''The Castle of the Otter'' to make the volume ''Castle of Days''. ==The stories (and their respective holidays)== * Date Due (No holiday assigned) * * A story hidden in the introduction about a University student who steals books from his University Library. * "How the Whip Came Back" (Lincoln's Birthday) * "Of Relays and Roses" (Valentine's Day) * "Paul's Treehouse" (Arbor Day) * "St. Brandon" (St. Patrick's Day) * "Beautyland" (Earth Day) * "Car Sinister" (Mother's Day) * "The Blue Mouse" (Armed Forces Day) * "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" (Memorial Day) * "The Adopted Father" (Father's Day) * "Forlesen" (Labor Day) * "An Article About Hunting" (the first day of hunting season) * "The Changeling" (Homecoming Day) * "Many Mansions" (Halloween) * "Against the Lafayette Escadrille" (Armistice Day) * "Three Million Square Miles" (Thanksgiving) * "The War Beneath the Tree" (Christmas Eve) * "La Befana" (Christmas Day) * "Melting" (New Year's Eve) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gene Wolfe's Book of Days」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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