The best of the Best American short stories, 1915-1950.
By: Edited by Martha Foley.
Contributors: Foley, Martha, ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Short stories, American.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Description: Outstanding short fiction gathered from Best American short stories and its predecessors.
Table of contents: title: How the devil came down Division Street / Nelson Algren; title: I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson; title: The blue sash / Warren Beck; title: Nothing ever breaks except the heart / Kay Boyle; title: Horse thief / Erskine Caldwell; title: Sex education / Dorothy Canfield; title: The enormous radio / John Cheever; title: The wind and the snow of winter / Walter V.T. Clark; title: Boys will be boys / Irvin S. Cobb; title: Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato; title: Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner; title: (cont.); title: My old man / Ernest Hemingway; title: The peach stone / Paul Horgan; title: Haircut / Ring Lardner; title: Man on a road / Albert Maltz; title: Prince of darkness / J.F. Powers; title: Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan; title: Search through the streets of the city / Irwin Shaw; title: The interior castle / Jean Stafford; title: How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur D. Steele; title: Women on the wall / Wallace Stegner; title: Dawn of a remembered spring / Jesse Stuart; title: Wife of Nashville / Peter Taylor; title: Catbird seat / James Thurber; title: A curtain of green / Eudora Welty.