Later novels and stories
Call Number
- FICTION MAXW (CEN)
Publication Information
NY Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam, 2008.
Physical Description
xi, 994 p. 21cm.
Series
Notes
"Christopher Carduff selected the contents and wrote the notes for this volume"--P. [5].
Contents
- Chateau--Stories 1963-1976--Final report--Value of money--Game of chess--Poor orphan girl--Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel--Over by the river--Thistles in Sweden--So long, see you tomorrow--Billie Dyer and other stories--Billie Dyer--Love--Man in the moon--With reference to an incident at a bridge--my father's friends--Front and back parts of the house--Holy terror--Stories 1986-1999--Grape Bay (1941)--Lily-white boys--what he was like----Room outside--Set of twenty-one improvisations--Love story--Industrious tailor--Country where nobody ever grew old and died--Fisherman who had nobody to go out in his boat with him--two women friends--Carpenter--Man who had no friends and didn't want any--Fable begotten of an echo of a line verse by W.B. Yeats--Blue Finch of Arabia--Sound of waves--Woman who never drew breath except to complain--Masks--man who lost his father--Old woman whose house was beside a running stream--Pessimistic fortune-teller--Printing office--Lamplighter--Kingdom where straightforward, logical thinking was admired over every other kind--Old man at the railroad crossing--Mean and spiteful toad--All the days and nights--Other improvisations--Old man who was afraid of falling--Epistolarian--Shepherd's wife--marble watch--Half-crazy woman--Woman who didn't want anything more--Girl with a willing heart and a cold mind--Woodcutter--Man who had never been sick a day in his life--Problem child--Woman who had no eye for small detils--man who loved to eat--Woman with a talent for talking--Perfection--What you can't hang on to--Mushrooms--Dancing--Education of Her Majesty the Queen--Newton's Law.