| Description |
xi, 994 pages ; 21cm. |
| Series |
Library of America ; 184. |
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Library of America ; 184.
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| Contents |
Chateau -- Stories 1963-1976 -- A final report -- The value of money -- A game of chess -- The poor orphan girl -- The gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel -- Over by the river -- The thistles in Sweden -- So long, see you tomorrow -- Billie Dyer and other stories -- Billie Dyer -- Love -- The man in the moon -- With reference to an incident at a bridge -- My father's friends -- The front and back parts of the house -- The holy terror -- Stories 1986-1999 -- Grape Bay (1941) -- The lily-white boys -- What he was like -- The room outside -- 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 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 -- Other improvisations -- The old man who was afraid of falling -- The epistolarian -- The shepherd's wife -- The marble watch -- The half-crazy woman -- The woman who didn't want anything more -- The girl with a willing heart and a cold mind -- The woodcutter -- The man who had never been sick a day in his life -- The problem child -- The woman who had no eye for small details -- The man who loved to eat -- The woman with a talent for talking -- Perfection -- What you can't hang on to -- Mushrooms -- The dancing -- The education of Her Majesty the Queen -- Newton's law -- Nearing ninety. |
| Note |
"Christopher Carduff selected the contents and wrote the notes for this volume." |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, American.
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| Added Author |
Carduff, Christopher.
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| Added Title |
The chateau.
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Stories 1963-1976.
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So long, see you tomorrow.
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Billie Dyer and other stories.
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Stories 1986-1999.
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A set of twenty-one improvisations.
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Other improvisations.
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Nearing ninety.
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| ISBN |
9781598530261: $35.00 |
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1598530267: $35.00 |
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