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An edition of Collected Stories (1985)

Collected Stories

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602

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Cover of: Collected stories
Collected stories
1996, Minerva
in English
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Collected Stories
April 5, 1994, New Directions Publishing Corporation
Paperback in English
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September 26, 1989, Robert Laffont
Hardcover
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Collected stories
1988, Pan
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Collected stories
1986, Ballantine Books
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Cover of: Collected stories
Collected stories
1986, Secker & Warburg, Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
in English
Cover of: Collected stories
Collected stories
1985, New Directions Pub. Corp.
in English
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Collected stories
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Table of Contents

Preface: The Man in the Overstuffed Chair Page vii
Introduction Page xix
The Vengeance of Nitocris Page 1 A Lady's Beaded Bag Page 13 Something by Tolstoi Page 17 Big Black: a Mississippi Idyll Page 26 The Accent of a Coming Foot Page 32 Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton Page 43 Sand Page 49 Ten Minute Stop Page 54 Gift of an Apple Page 63 The Field of Blue Children Page 70 In Memory of an Aristocrat Page 79 The Dark Room Page 93 The Mysteries of the Joy Rio Page 99 Portrait of a Girl in Glass Page 110 The Angel in the Alcove Page 120 Oriflamme Page 128 The Vine Page 134 The Malediction Page 147 The Important Thing Page 163 One Arm Page 175 The Interval Page 189 Tent Worms Page 200 Desire and the Black Masseur Page 205 Something about Him Page 213 The Yellow Bird Page 221 The Night of the Iguana Page 229 The Poet Page 246 Chronicle of a Demise Page 252 Rubio y Morena Page 257 The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin Page 270 Two on a Party Page 283 Three Players of a Summer Game Page 303 The Coming of Something to the Widow Holly Page 326 Hard Candy Page 335 Man Bring This Up Road Page 347 The Mattress by the Tomato Patch Page 359 The Kingdom of Earth Page 368 "Grand" Page 379 Mama's Old Stucco House Page 388 The Knightly Quest Page 398 A Recluse and His Guest Page 456 Happy August the Tenth Page 464 The Inventory at Fontana Bella Page 477 Miss Coynte of Greene Page 484 Sabbatha and Solitude Page 503 Completed Page 519 Das Wasser Ist Kalt Page 527 Mother Yaws Page 544 The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen Page 552 Bibliographical Notes Page 571

Edition Notes

Includes bibliography.
The introduction by Gore Vidal appeared in a somewhat different form in the New York Review of Books.
Andreas Brown and Lyle Leverich [assisted] in dating the stories.
Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited.
New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Company.

Series
New Directions Paperbook ; 784
Copyright Date
1985

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.' 54
Library of Congress
PS 3545. I5365 A6, PS3568.O243

Contributors

Introduction
Gore Vidal
Cover Art
Andy Warhol
Cover Design
Hermann Strohbach

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxv, 574 p.
Number of pages
602
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 4.3 centimeters
Weight
839 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7999929M
Internet Archive
collectedstories00tenn
ISBN 10
0811212696
ISBN 13
9780811212694
LCCN
85010642
OCLC/WorldCat
31638204
Library Thing
27556
Goodreads
12268

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