All the days and nights : the collected stories of William Maxwell

All the days and nights : the collected stories of William Maxwell.

Author/creator	Maxwell, William, 1908-2000
Format	Book and Print
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1995.
Description	x, 415 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	City and town life--Illinois --Fiction. Americans--France --Social life and customs --Fiction. Families--New York (State) --New York --Fiction. Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs --Fiction.

Contents	Over by the river -- The Trojan women -- The pilgrimage -- The patterns of love -- What every boy should know -- A game of chess -- The French scarecrow -- Young Francis Whitehead -- A final report -- Haller's second home -- The gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel -- The value of money -- The thistles in Sweden -- The poor orphan girl -- The lily-white boys -- Billie Dyer -- Love -- The man in the moon -- With reference to an incident at a bridge -- My father's friends -- The front and the back parts of the house -- The holy terror -- What he was like -- (to be continued)
Contents	(Continued) A Set of Twenty-one Improvisations : A love story -- The industrious tailor -- The country where nobody ever grew old and died -- The fisherman who had nobody to go out in his boat with him -- The two women friends -- The carpenter -- The man who had no friends and didn't want any -- A fable begotten of an echo of a line of verse by W.B. Yeats -- The blue finch of Arabia -- The sound of waves -- The woman who never drew breath except to complain -- The masks -- The man who lost his father -- The old woman whose house was beside a running stream -- The pessimistic fortune-teller -- The printing office -- The lamplighter -- The kingdom where straightforward, logical thinking was admired over every other kind -- The old man at the railroad crossing -- A mean and spiteful toad -- All the days and nights.
LCCN	94027509
ISBN	0679438297 :