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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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Fifty Best American Short Stories
1986, Avenel Books, Distributed by Crown Publishers
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0517603543 9780517603543
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Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965
1965, Houghton Mifflin
in English
0395076870 9780395076873
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