Collected stories and other writings
By: John Cheever.
Series: Library of America -- 188; Library of America -- 188.
Publisher: Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1040
ISBN-13: 9781598530346
Subjects: Short stories, American
Work titles: Selections.
Description: Collected Stories and Other Writings combines the entire Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, The Stories of John Cheever, with seven selections from his first book, The Way Some People Live (1943)-here restored to print-and seven additional stories first published in periodicals between 1930 and 1953. Included are masterpieces such as The Enormous Radio, Goodbye, My Brother, and The Swimmer, as well as lesser-known gems.
Table of contents: title: The stories of John Cheever.; title: Preface --; title: Goodbye, my brother --; title: The common day --; title: The enormous radio --; title: O city of broken dreams --; title: The Hartleys --; title: The Sutton place story --; title: The summer farmer --; title: Torch song --; title: The pot of gold --; title: Clancy in the Tower of Babel --; title: Christmas is a sad season for the poor --; title: The season of divorce --; title: The chaste Clarissa --; title: The cure --; title: The superintendent --; title: The children --; title: The sorrows of gin --; title: O youth and beauty! --; title: The day the pig fell into the well --; title: The five-forty-eight --; title: Just one more time --; title: The housebreaker of Shady Hill --; title: The bus to St. James's --; title: The worm in the apple --; title: The trouble of Marcie Flint --; title: The bella lingua --; title: The Wrysons --; title: The country husband --; title: The duchess --; title: The scarlet moving van --; title: Just tell me who it was --; title: Brimmer --; title: The golden age --; title: The lowboy --; title: The music teacher --; title: A woman without a country --; title: The death of Justina --; title: Clementina --; title: Boy in Rome --; title: A miscellany of characters that will not appear --; title: The chimera --; title: The seaside houses --; title: The angel of the bridge --; title: The brigadier and the golf widow --; title: A vision of the world --; title: Reunion --; title: An educated American woman --; title: Metamorphoses --; title: Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin --; title: Montraldo --; title: The ocean --; title: Marito in Città --; title: The geometry of love --; title: The swimmer --; title: The world of apples --; title: Another story --; title: Percy --; title: The fourth alarm --; title: Artemis, the honest well-digger --; title: Three stories --; title: The jewels of the Cabots.; title: from The way some people live.; title: Summer theatre --; title: Forever hold your peace --; title: Of love : a testimony --; title: The brothers --; title: Publick house --; title: When Grandmother goes --; title: The tragic years.; title: Other stories.; title: Expelled --; title: The autobiography of a drummer --; title: In passing --; title: Play a march --; title: Town house --; title: Roseheath --; title: The national pastime.; title: Other writings.; title: What happened --; title: Moving out --; title: F. Scott Fitzgerald --; title: The melancholy of distance --; title: On Saul Bellow --; title: Why I write short stories --; title: My friend, Malcolm Cowley.