Later novels and stories
By: William Maxwell.
Contributors: Carduff, Christopher
Series: Library of America -- 184.
Publisher: Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 994
ISBN-13: 9781598530261
Subjects: Short stories, American.
Other titles: Later novels & stories
Work titles: Selections.
Notes: "Christopher Carduff selected the contents and wrote the notes for this volume"--P. [5].
Table of contents: title: Chateau; title: Stories 1963-1976:; title: Final report; title: Value of money; title: Game of chess; title: Poor orphan girl; title: Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel; title: Over by the river; title: Thistles in Sweden; title: So long, see you tomorrow; title: Billie Dyer and other stories:; title: Billie Dyer; title: Love; title: Man in the moon; title: With reference to an incident at a bridge; title: My father's friends; title: Front and back parts of the house; title: Holy terror; title: Stories 1986-1999:; title: Grape Bay (1941); title: Lily-white boys; title: What he was like; title: Room outside; title: Set of twenty-one improvisations:; title: Love story; title: Industrious tailor; title: Country where nobody ever grew old and died; title: Fisherman who had nobody to go out in his boat with him; title: Two women friends; title: Carpenter; title: Man who had no friends and didn't want any; title: Fable begotten of an echo of a line of verse by W.B. Yeats; title: Blue Finch of Arabia; title: Sound of waves; title: Woman who never drew breath except to complain; title: Masks; title: Man who lost his father; title: Old woman whose house was beside a running stream; title: Pessimistic fortune-teller; title: Printing office; title: Lamplighter; title: Kingdom where straightforward, logical thinking was admired over every other kind; title: Old man at the railroad crossing; title: Mean and spiteful toad; title: All the days and nights; title: Other improvisations:; title: Old man who was afraid of falling; title: Epistolarian; title: Shepherd's wife; title: Marble watch; title: Half-crazy woman; title: Woman who didn't want anything more; title: Girl with a willing heart and a cold mind; title: Woodcutter; title: Man who had never been sick a day in his life; title: Problem child; title: Woman who had no eye for small detils; title: Man who loved to eat; title: Woman with a talent for talking; title: Perfection; title: What you can't hang on to; title: Mushrooms; title: Dancing; title: Education of Her Majesty the Queen; title: Newton's Law; title: Nearing ninety.