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Modern American short stories ... /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cleveland, New York : The World Pub. Co., [1945]
Subjects:
Short stories, American.
Table of Contents:
  • A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Mammon and the archer / O. Henry
  • The sculptor's funeral / Willa Cather
  • The heathen / Jack London
  • Little Miss Marker / Damon Runyon
  • A caddy's diary / Ring Lardner
  • For they know not what they do / Wilbur Daniel Steele
  • Pigeons en casserole / Bessie Breuer
  • The standard of living / Dorothy Parker
  • Clay shuttered doors / Helen R. Hull
  • The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
  • The circus / Katherine Anne Porter
  • That evening sun / William Faulkner
  • The happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway
  • The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent BenĂ©t
  • The raid / John Steinbeck
  • Warm river / Erskine Caldwell
  • Afternoon in the jungle / Albert Maltz
  • Almos' a man / Richard Wright
  • The shepherd's daughter / William Saroyan
  • Livvie is back / Eudora Welty
  • Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  • The man in the Brooks Brothers shirt / Mary McCarthy
  • The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw.