| Description |
viii, 480 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"The stories ... have appeared in the New Yorker during the past ten years." |
| Contents |
The enormous rodeo / John Cheever -- Defeat / Kay Boyle -- Man here keeps getting arrested all the time / John McNulty -- Down in the reeds by the river / Victoria Lincoln -- A winter in the country / Robert M. Coates -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- Lady with a lamp / Sally Benson -- Act of faith / Irwin Shaw -- The ballet visits the Splendide's magician / Ludwig Bemelmans -- The middle drawer / Hortense Calisher -- The dilemma of Catharine Fuchsias / Rhys Davies -- The nightengales sing / Elizabeth Parsons -- The second tree from the corner / E. B. White -- The pleasures of travel / Wendell Wilcox -- Content with the station / John Andrew Rice -- A perfect day for bananafish / J. D. Salinger -- The patterns of love / William Maxwell -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Yonder peasant, who is he? / Mary McCarthy -- The decision / John O'Hara -- Her bed is India / Christine Weston -- Inflexible Logic / Russell Maloney -- The falling leaves / Frances Gray Patton -- My Da / Frank O'Connor -- The Four Freedoms / Edward Newhouse -- A view of Exmoor / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford -- Mr. Skidmore's gift / Oliver La Farge -- A short wait between trains / Robert McLaughlin -- Party at the Williamsons' / Astrid Peters -- Monsoon / Jerome Weidman -- Song at twilight / Wolcott Gibbs -- Run, run, run, run / A. J. Liebling -- The jockey / Carson McCullers -- Pigeons en casserole / Bessie Breuer -- A killing / Roger Angell -- Goodbye, my love / Mollie Painter-Downes -- Collette / Vladimir Nabakov -- A clean quiet house / Daniel Fuchs -- Village incident / James A. Maxwell -- De Mortuis / John Collier -- Then we'll set it right / Robert Gorham Davis -- The mysteries of life in an orderly manner / Jessamyn West -- Porte-Cochere / Peter Taylor -- The evolution of knowledge / Niccolo Tucci -- Continued humid / Mark Shorer -- The Baby-Amah / Emily Hahn -- Truth and consequences / Brendan Gill -- Between the dark and the daylight / Nancy Hale -- The judgment of Paris / James Reid Parker -- Mary Mulcahy / Christopher La Farge -- The bummers / John Powell -- Under gemini / Isabel Bolton -- The improvement in Mr. Gaynor's technique / S. N. Behrman -- Black secret / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. |
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Short stories, American.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Title |
Fifty-five short stories from the New Yorker |
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