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The collected stories of Jean Stafford.
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Van Pelt Library PS3569 .T2 1969
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Paul, Bertram (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1)
- Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979 (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1)
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Schimmel, Stuart B. (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 463 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1969.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Maggie Meriwether's rich experience
- The children's game
- The echo and the nemesis
- The maiden
- A modest proposal
- Caveat emptor
- Life is no abyss
- The hope chest
- Polite conversation
- A country love story
- The bleeding heart
- The Lippia lawn
- The interior castle
- The healthiest girl in town
- The tea time of stouthearted ladies
- The mountain day
- The darkening moon
- Bad characters
- In the zoo
- The liberation
- The reading problem
- A summer day
- The philosophy lesson
- 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.
- Notes:
- Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1970.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 inscribed "Jean Stafford For Bertram Paul with love, Jean Speonk, 1/28/69" on title page.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has bookplate of Stuart B. Schimmel on front pastedown.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 1948
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