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The best American short stories, 1956 ; and the Yearbook of the American short story / edited by Martha Foley.
LIBRA PS659 .B47 1956 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 374 pages ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- Dolphin edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books ; Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1956]
- Contents:
- In an early winter / Roger Angell
- Snow owl / Morris Brown
- We're all guests / George R. Clay
- In a foreign city / Robert M. Coates
- Undertow / Wesley Ford Davis
- Devil on a hot afternoon / Ward Dorrance
- Hobo / Harris Downey
- Quiet chimneys / William Eastlake
- Is he dead? / George P. Elliott
- Free the canaries from their cages! / Arthur Granit
- How Levon Dai was surrendered to the Edemuses / Marjorie Anaïs Housepian
- One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson
- Mexican grill / Jack Kerouac
- Creole love song / Nathaniel LaMar
- First flower / Augusta Wallace Lyons
- Twenty below, at the end of a lane / Ruth Branning Molloy
- Artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor
- Contest for Aaron Gold / Philip Roth
- Machine / John Shepley
- Four Annas / Christine Weston
- Reginald Pomfret Skelton / Samuel Yellen
- Biographical notes
- Yearbook of the American short story, January 1 to December 31, 1955.
- Contains:
- Yearbook of the American short story.
- OCLC:
- 535522872
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