Author:
Abrahams, William Miller, 1919-1998, comp.
Edition Statement:[1st ed.]
Imprint:Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1970.
Description2 v. ; 22 cm.
Note:Selections from Prize stories.
Note:Vol.1: Sherwood Anderson: Death in the woods (1926). -- James Baldwin: Come out the wilderness (1959). -- John Barth: Lost in the funhouse (1969). -- Donald Barthelme: See the moon? (1967). -- Saul Bellow: The Gonzaga manuscripts (1956). -- Stephen Vincent Benét: The devil and Daniel Webster (1937). -- Paul Bowles: The echo (1947). -- Kay Boyle: The white horses of Vienna (1935). -- Katharine Brush: Night club (1927). -- James Branch Cabell: Porcelain cups (1919). -- Erskine Caldwell: Country full of Swedes (1933). -- Truman Capote: Miriam (1946). -- John Cheever: The embarkment for Cythera (1964). -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark: The wind and the snow of winter (1945). -- Evan S. Connell, Jr.: I came from yonder mountain (1951). -- James Gould Cozzens: Farewell to Cuba (1932). -- William Eastlake: The biggest thing since Custer (1970). -- William Faulkner: Barn burning (1939). -- Jesse Hill Ford: How the mountains are (1961). -- Daniel Fuchs: Twilight in Southern California (1955). -- Ivan Gold: The nickel misery of George Washington Carver Brown (1961). -- Caroline Gordon: Old Red (1934). --Nancy Hale: The most elegant drawing room in Europe (1968). -- Robert Hemenway: The girl who sang with the Beatles (1970). -- Ernest Hemingway: The killers (1927). -- Shirley Jackson: The lottery (1949). -- Josephine Jacobsen: On the island (1967). -- Bernard malamud: Man in the drawer (1969). -- Mary McCarthy: The hounds of summer (1965). -- Carson McCullers: The jockey (1942). -- Marvin Mudrick: Cleopatra (1967). -- Joyce Carol Oates: In the region of ice (1967). - Where are you going, where have you been? (1968).
Note:Vol.2: Flannery O'Connor: Everything that rises must converge (1963). - Revelation (1965). -- Tillie Olsen: Tell me a riddle (1961). -- Dorothy Parker: Big Blonde (1929). -- Katherine Anne Porter: The downward path to wisdom (1940). - Holiday (1962). -- J.F. Powers: Lions, harts, leaping does (1944). - The valiant woman (1947). -- Thomas Pynchon: Under the rose (1962). -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Gal young un (1933). -- Philip Roth: Defender of the faith (1960). -- William Saroyan: The daring young man on the flying trapeze (1934). -- Mark Schorer: What we don't know hurts us (1947). -- Irwin Shaw: Gunners' passage (1945). -- Margaret Shedd: The everlasting witness (1964). -- Jean Stafford: A country love story (1951). - In the zoo (1955). -- Wilbur Daniel Steele: The man who saw through heaven (1925). -- Wallace Stegner: Beyond the glass mountain (1948). -- John Steinbeck: The promise (1938). -- Peter Taylor: Venus, Cupid, folly, and time (1959). -- John Updike: The doctor's wife (1962). - The Bulgarian poetess (1966). -- Eudora Welty: Livvie is back (1943). - The demonstrators (1968). -- Glenway Westcott: Prohibition (1928). -- Richard Wright: Fire and cloud (1938)
