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Book

Collected writings : Two serious ladies, In the summer house, stories & other writings, letters

Call Number

  • 818 B7872 (CEN)

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Publication Information

[New York, New York] : Library Of America, [2017]

Physical Description

xvi, 815 pages ; 21 cm.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Notes

Novel, play, nine shorter works originally published from 1944-1966, twelve notebook excerpts, and 133 letters.

Contents

  • Two serious ladies
  • In the summer house
  • Stories and other writings: A Guatemalan idyll ; A day in the open ; Song of an old woman ; Two skies ; A quarreling pair ; Plain pleasures ; Camp Cataract ; A stick of green candy ; East side : North Africa
  • Scenes and fragments: Señorita Córdoba ; Looking for Lane ; Laura and Sally ; Going to Massachusetts ; The children's party ; Andrew ; Emmy Moore's journal ; Friday ; "Curls and a quiet country face" ; Lila and Frank ; The iron table ; At the Jumping Bean
  • Letters
  • Appendix. Everything is nice
  • Chronology.

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