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Jean Stafford : complete stories & other writings /

"For the first time, the complete stories of a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the form, plus her fascinating portrait of the mother of one of the world's most infamous assassins"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979
Other Authors: Davis, Kathryn, 1946- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Library of America, [2021]
Series:Library of America ; 342.
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century.
American fiction.
1900-1999
Table of Contents:
  • The collected stories of Jean Stafford: The innocents abroad. Maggie Meriwether's rich experience
  • The children's game
  • The echo and the nemesis
  • The maiden
  • A modest proposal
  • Caveat emptor
  • The Bostonians, and other manifestations of the American scene: Life is no abyss
  • The hope chest
  • Polite conversation
  • A country love story
  • The bleeding heart
  • The lippia lawn
  • The interior castle
  • Cowboys and indians, and magic mountains: The healthiest girl in town
  • The tea time of stouthearted ladies
  • The mountain day
  • The darkening moon
  • Bad characters
  • In the zoo
  • The liberation
  • A reading problem
  • A summer day
  • The philosophy lesson
  • Manhattan Island: Children are bored on Sunday
  • Beatrice Trueblood's story
  • Between the porch and the altar
  • I love someone
  • Cops and robbers
  • The captain's gift
  • The end of a career
  • Other stories: And lots of solid color
  • A reunion
  • The home front
  • A slight maneuver
  • The cavalier
  • Old flaming youth
  • The violet rock
  • The connoisseurs
  • A winter's tale
  • The warlock
  • My blithe, sad bird
  • A reasonable facsimile
  • The scarlet letter
  • The ordeal of Conrad Pardee
  • An influx of poets
  • Woden's Day
  • A mother in history
  • Selected essays: The psychological novel
  • Truth and the novelist
  • An etiquette for writers
  • Chronology.