Fifty Best American Short Stories
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Author
- Elsie Singmaster
- James Thurber
- George P. Garrett
- Jean Stafford
- Tennessee Williams
- Pietro Di Donato
- Robert M. Coates
- George P. Elliott
- M. (Ed.) Foley
- Irwin Shaw
- Theodore Dreiser
- Jesse Stuart
- Trilling, Lionel
- Saroyan, William
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- William Eastlake
- Thomas Wolfe
- Martha Foley
- Lawrence Sargent Hall
- Augusta Wallace Lyons
- Kay Boyle
- H. W. Blattner
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- Frank Butler
- James Agee
- William Faulkner
- Nancy Hale
- Ray Bradbury
- Updike, John.
- Philip A. Roth
- John Steinbeck
- Willa Cather
- Hortense Calisher
- Tillie Olsen
- Bernard Malamud
- Ring Lardner
- Tess Slesinger
- Sherwood Anderson
- Richard Wright
- Jackson, Shirley
- Martha (Editor) Foley
- John Stewart Carter
- Ernest Hemingway
- Wilbur Daniel Steele
- Thomas Wolfe
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Paul Horgan
- William March
- Cheever, John.
- Baldwin, James
- James Agee
Publication
1986 - Avenel Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
203,500 words, Guess
Page Count
814 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2543002M
- Internet Archivefiftybestamerica00fole
- ISBN-100517603543
- ISBN-139780517603543
- LibraryThing43170
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number85024705
Classifications
- DDC813/.01/08
- LCCPS648.S5 F535 1986
Description
Contents: Survivors / Elsie Singmaster -- Lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Golden honeymoon / Ring W. Lardner -- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson -- My old man / Ernest Hemingway -- Telephone call / Dorothy Parker -- Double birthday / Willa Cather -- Faithful wife / Morley Callaghan -- Little wife / William March -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald-- How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan -- Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe -- Life in the day of a writer / Tess Slesinger -- Iron City / Lovell Thompson -- Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner -- Net / Robert M. Coates -- Nothing ever breaks except the heart / Kay Boyle -- Search through the streets of the city / Irwin Shaw -- Who lived and died believing / Nancy Hale -- Peach stone / Paul Horgan -- Dawn of remembered spring / Jesse Stuart -- Catbird seat / James Thurber -- Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling -- Wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Enormous radio / John Cheever -- Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford -- NRACP / George P. Elliott -- In Greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher -- Other foot / Ray Bradbury -- Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams -- Mother's tale / James Agee -- Magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Circle in the fire / Flannery O'Connor -- First flower / Augusta Wallace Lyons -- Contest for Aaron Gold / Philip Roth -- One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson -- To the wilderness I wander / Frank Butler -- Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall -- This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin -- Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen -- Old army game / George Garrett -- Pigeon feathers / John Updike -- Sound of a drunken drummer / H.W. Blattner -- Keyhole eye / John Stewart Carter -- Long day's dying / William Eastlake -- Upon the sweeping flood / Joyce Carol Oates.
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