| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
405 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes texts of short stories, with comments by the authors. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
The greatest thing in the world / Norman Mailer -- Clothes make the man / Jesse Stuart -- A casual incident / James T. Farrell -- Two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany -- My friend Flicka / Mary O'Hara -- Sherrel / Whit Burnett -- The house divided / Gladys Schmitt -- The important thing / Tennessee Williams -- Winter / Dorothy McCleary -- The windfall / Erskine Caldwell -- Rest cure / Kay Boyle -- My side of the matter / Truman Capote -- Seventy thousand Assyrians / William Saroyan -- The thief of the Champs Elysees / Hallie Burnett -- A morning drive / George Hitchcock -- The top / George Sumner Albee -- Address unknown / Kressman Taylor -- Exchange of men / Howard Nemerov and W. R. Johnson -- A turn of the sun / John Knowles -- The dream of Angelo Zara / Guido D'Agostino -- The captive / Luigi Pirandello -- Noon wine / Katherine Anne Porter. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, American.
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| Subject |
Short stories, American -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Author |
Burnett, Hallie, 1908-1991.
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