The Stealing Steps is a collection of fables, legends, and vignettes from the pen of one of Britain's leading playwrights and novelists. From revolutionary murmurs in 14th century Yorkshire and the pomp of Sheridan's theatreland London, to unfulfilled ambitions and doubtful affiliations in modern-day Ireland, these nine stories - which include the V.S. Pritchett award-winning Breach of Trust - are lavish, bawdy tales of love, age, betrayal, and the astonishing acts of individual men and women. Arden's protagonists are failed artists, poets, writers and storytellers, who dictate from the margins and through time, a history that is not that of kings and queens, but of the forces underpinning human nature.
- ISBN10 0413773345
- ISBN13 9780413773340
- Publish Date 1 July 2004 (first published 4 September 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 January 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 318
- Language English