Imprint:New York : Simon and Schuster, 1940.
Descriptionxii, 438 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:"The sixty-eight stories in this collection were chosen from those appearing in 'The New Yorker' during its first fifteen and a half years of publication--February, 1925, to September, 1940."
Note:The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw. - Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara. - The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber. - The net / Robert M. Coates. - Home atmosphere / Sally Benson. - A toast to Captain Jerk / Russell Maloney. - Kroy Wen / Kay Boyle. - Nice girl / Sherwood Anderson. - H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, Samaritan / Leonard Q. Ross. - Prelude to reunion / Oliver LaFarge. - A small day / Erskine Caldwell. - Midsummer / Nancy Hale. - The door / E.B. White. - Tourist home / Benedict Thielen. - Arrangement in black and white / Dorothy Parker. - The courtship of Milton Barker / Wolcott Gibbs. - Homecoming / William Maxwell. - Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe. - The works / Nathan Asch. - Do you like it here? / John O'Hara. - Conversation piece / Louise Bogan. - The fury / Robert M. Coates. - Venetian perspective / Janet Flanner. - Ping-pong / St. Clair McKelway. - The three veterans / Leane Zugsmith. - Wet Saturday / John Collier. - Soldiers of the republic / Dorothy Parker. - Houseparty / Walter Bernstein. - All the years of her life / Morley Callaghan. - The explorers / Jerome Weidman. - The old lady / Thyra Samter Winslow. - A matter of pride / Christopher LaFarge. - Love in the snow / Joel Sayre. - Profession: housewife / Sally Benson. - The great manta / Edwin Corle. - My sister Frances / Emily Hahn. - Accident near Charlottesburg / William A. Krauss. - In honor of their daughter / John Mosher. - The test / Angelica Gibbs. - Goodbye, Shirley Temple / Joseph Mitchell. - Honors and awards / James Reid Parker. - Pastoral at Mr. Piper's / Mollie Panter-Downes. - Man and woman / Erskine Caldwell. - Main currents of American thought / Irwin Shaw. - The knife / Brendan Gill. - The pelican's shadow / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. - Incident on a street corner / Albert Maltz. - Such a pretty day / Dawn Powell. - Portrait of ladies / Mark Schorer. - Parochial school / Paul Horgan. - I am waiting / Christopher Isherwood. - A letter from the Bronx / Arthur Kober. - Little woman / Sally Benson. - The apostate / George Milburn. - Sailor off the Bremen / Irwin Shaw. - Barmecide's feast / Marc Connelly. - Fish story / Donald Moffat. - I've got an anchor on my chest / R.H. Newman. - The happiest days / John Cheever. - Black boy / Kay Boyle. - The nice Judge Trowbridge / Richard Lockridge. - Love in Brooklyn / Daniel Fuchs. - The great-grandmother / Nancy Hale. - Chutzbah / Jerome Weidman. - Mr. Palmer's party / Tess Slesinger. - A different world / Robert M. Coates. - Are we leaving tomorrow? / John O'Hara. - The getaway / Dorothy Thomas.
