The collected stories of Jean Stafford.

Author

Jean Stafford

Call Number

• FICTION STAF (CEN)

Edition

Farrar, Straus and Giroux pbk. ed.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2005.

Physical Description

xix, 487 p. ; 21 cm.

Summary

Written from the 1940s through the 1960s, these stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day.

Notes

Originally published: 1969.

Contents

• Introduction / by Joyce Carol Oates
• Author's note
• The innocents abroad: Maggie Meriwether's rich experience ; The children's game ; The echo and the nemesis ; The maiden ; A modest proposal ; Caveat emptor
• The Bostonians, and other manifestations of the American scene: Life is no abyss ; The hope chest ; Polite conversation ; A country love story ; The bleeding heart ; The Lippia lawn ; The interior castle
• Cowboys and Indians, and magic mountains: The healthiest girl in town ; The tea time of stouthearted ladies ; The mountain day ; The darkening moon ; Bad characters ; In the zoo ; The liberation ; A reading problem ; A summer day ; The philosophy lesson
• Manhattan Island: Children are bored on Sunday ; Beatrice Trueblood's story ; Between the porch and the altar ; I love someone ; Cops and robbers ; The captain's gift ; The end of a career ; An influx of poets.