Description |
xvi, 413 pages ; 18 cm |
Note |
"CE 2254"--Spine. |
Contents |
Big City. Social triangle -- Tobin's palm -- Last leaf -- Schools and schools -- Springtime á la carte -- Best-seller -- Gift of the Magi -- Green door -- Transients in Arcadia -- Brickdust row -- Enchanted profile -- Furnished room -- Con Men and Hoboes. Shearing the wolf -- Hostages to Momus -- Retrieved reformation -- Higher pragmatism -- Conscience in art -- Ethics of pig -- Jeff Peters as a personal magnet -- Tempered wind -- The Wild West and the Tame West. Telemachus, friend -- Caballaro's way -- Friends in San Rosario -- Sphinx apple -- Princess and the puma -- Chaparral prince -- Enchanted kiss -- Lonesome road -- Hiding of Black Bill -- Hygeia at the Solito -- Our Neighbors to the South: Domestic. "Rose of Dixie" -- Cherchez la femme -- Fool-killer -- Moment of victory -- Our Neighbors to the South: Foreign. Two renegades -- He also serves -- Lotus and the bottle -- Shamrock and the palm -- Shoes -- Double-dyed deceiver -- Fourth in Salvador. |
Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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Added Title |
Works. Selections. 1984
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Forty-one stories |
ISBN |
0451522540 |
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