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Fifty Best American Short Stories

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Robert M. CoatesMartha (Editor) FoleyWilbur Daniel SteeleLawrence Sargent HallM. (Ed.) FoleyErnest HemingwayElsie SingmasterWilliam SaroyanMartha FoleyAugusta Wallace LyonsJames ThurberWilliam FaulknerJohn Stewart CarterJesse StuartWilla CatherGeorge P. GarrettBernard MalamudJohn CheeverRay BradburyPhilip RothSherwood AndersonJohn SteinbeckThomas WolfeJohn UpdikeF. Scott FitzgeraldTennessee WilliamsWilliam EastlakeJames AgeeTheodore DreiserJoyce Carol OatesJean StaffordRichard WrightH. W. BlattnerFrank ButlerHortense CalisherJames BaldwinLionel TrillingRing LardnerShirley JacksonWilliam MarchPaul HorganTillie OlsenIrwin ShawKay BoyleWalter Van Tilburg ClarkGeorge P. ElliottThomas WolfeJames AgeePietro Di DonatoTess SlesingerNancy HaleFirst published 19653 editions

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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