num_pages: 756
description: Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.The eighty-yard run --Borough of cemeteries --Main currents of American thought --Second mortgage --Sailor off the Bremen --Strawberry ice cream soda --Welcome to the city --The girls in their summer dresses --Search through the streets of the city --The monument --I stand by Dempsey --God on Friday night --Return to Kansas City --Triumph of justice --No jury would convict --The lament of Madame Rechevsky --The deputy sheriff --Stop pushing, Rocky --March, march on down the field --Free conscience, void of offence --Weep in years to come --The city was in total darkness --Night, birth and opinion --Preach on the dusty roads --Hamlets of the world --Medal from Jerusalem --Walking wounded --Night in Algiers --Gunners' passage --Retreat --Act of faith --The man with one arm --The passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins --The dry rock --Noises in the city. The Indian in depth of night --Material witness --Little Henry Irving --The house of pain --A year to learn the language --The Greek general --The green nude --The climate of insomnia --Goldilocks at graveside --Mixed doubles --A wicked story --Age of reason --Peter Two --The sunny banks of the river Lethe --The man who married a French wife --Voyage out, voyage home --Tip on a dead jockey --The inhabitants of Venus --In the French style --Then we were three --God was here but He left early --Love on a dark street --Small Saturday --Pattern of love --Whispers in bedlam --Where all things wise and fair descend --Full many a flower --Circle of light
language: English
title: Short stories, five decades
titlecomplete: Short stories, five decades
genres: Literature, Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Short Story Collection
ratings_count: 238
publisher: Delacorte Press