"My adventures since I wrote last, have not been very numerous, but such as they are, they are much at your service. I took our long-plann'd walk to the Cassoon before tea...Very little of Mr. Weldon's water raising machine now remains to be seen...so I took myself into the hole that had been dug into the side of the hill..."

So writes Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, in a letter dated May 15, 1801. But what the soon-to-be-famous author has discovered is...evidence of the unexpected advent of several visitors to Bath...and Jane senses not only a displacement in geography and culture, but also of time. And the fun begins...

Contents:

• Tales of the Elders
  • Katydid
  • Eldering
  • Boneyard
  • Saving Jane Austen
• Tales of the University
  • A Little Light Reading
  • Dead Librarians
  • ASd Gehennam Tecum
  • A Spear of Asparagus
  • Academentia: A Fytte in Nin
  • After All
  • Dog Eat Dog: A Christmas Tale
• Tales of Fantasy and Mystery
  • A Matter of Time: A Romance of Genealogy
  • Hell’s Belles
  • Bugs
  • Incognito
  • Occam’s Razor: A Tale of William of Occam