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| Variant title |
Later novels & stories |
| Series |
Library of America ; 184
Library of America ; 184. ^A515081
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| Contents |
Chateau--Stories 1963-1976--Final report--Value of money--Game of chess--Poor orphan girl--Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel--Over by the river--Thistles in Sweden--So long, see you tomorrow--Billie Dyer and other stories--Billie Dyer--Love--Man in the moon--With reference to an incident at a bridge--my father's friends--Front and back parts of the house--Holy terror--Stories 1986-1999--Grape Bay (1941)--Lily-white boys--what he was like----Room outside--Set of twenty-one improvisations--Love story--Industrious tailor--Country where nobody ever grew old and died--Fisherman who had nobody to go out in his boat with him--two women friends--Carpenter--Man who had no friends and didn't want any--Fable begotten of an echo of a line verse by W.B. Yeats--Blue Finch of Arabia--Sound of waves--Woman who never drew breath except to complain--Masks--man who lost his father--Old woman whose house was beside a running stream--Pessimistic fortune-teller--Printing office--Lamplighter--Kingdom where straightforward, logical thinking was admired over every other kind--Old man at the railroad crossing--Mean and spiteful toad--All the days and nights--Other improvisations--Old man who was afraid of falling--Epistolarian--Shepherd's wife--marble watch--Half-crazy woman--Woman who didn't want anything more--Girl with a willing heart and a cold mind--Woodcutter--Man who had never been sick a day in his life--Problem child--Woman who had no eye for small detils--man who loved to eat--Woman with a talent for talking--Perfection--What you can't hang on to--Mushrooms--Dancing--Education of Her Majesty the Queen--Newton's Law. |
| General note | "Christopher Carduff selected the contents and wrote the notes for this volume"--P. [5]. |
| Genre/form | Short stories, American. |
| ISBN | 9781598530261 : |
| ISBN | 1598530267 : |
