Malamud, the true American Master, wrote, in my estimation, a volume slightly different from The Complete Stories , and the name of that slightly different volume ought to be, more cautiously, Selected Stories .
Malamud based his Selected Stories on the jungle book. 
mnli hypothesis: Malamud based his Selected Stories on the jungle book.  premise: Malamud, the true American Master, wrote, in my estimation, a volume slightly different from The Complete Stories , and the name of that slightly different volume ought to be, more cautiously, Selected Stories .