Author:
The New Yorker.
Imprint:New York : Simon and Schuster, 1949.
Descriptionviii, 480 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:"The shories ... have appeared in the New Yorker during the past ten years."
Note:The enormous radio / John Cheever. - Defeat / Kay Boyle. - Man here keeps getting arrested all the time / John McNulty. - Down in the reeds by the river / Victoria Lincoln. - A winter in the country / Robert M. Coates. - The catbird seat / James Thurber. - Lady with a lamp / Sally Benson. - Act of faith / Irwin Shaw. - The ballet visits the spendide's magician / Ludwig Bemelmans. - The middle drawer / Hortense Calisher. - The dilemma of Catherine Fuchsias / Rhys davies. - The nightingales sing / Elizabeth Parsons. - The second tree from the corner / E.B. White. - The pleasures of travel / Wendell Wilcox. - Content with the station / John Andrew Rice. - A perfect day for Bananafish / J.D. Salinger. - The patterns of love / William Maxwell. - The lottery / Shirley Jackson. - Yonder peasant, who is he? / Mary McCarthy. - The decision / John O'Hara. - Her bed is India / Christine Weston. - Inflexible logic / Russell Maloney. - The falling leaves / Frances Gray Patton. - My da / Frank O'Connor. - The four freedoms / Edward Newhouse. - A view of Exmoor / Sylvia Townsend Warner. - Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford. - Mr. Skidmore's gift / Oliver La Farge. - A short wait between trains / Robert McLaughlin. - Party at the Williamsons' / Astrid Peters. - Monsoon / Jerome Weidman. - Song at twilight / Wolcott Gibbs. - Run, run, run, run / A.J. Liebling. - The jockey / Carson McCullers. - Pigeons en casserole / Bessie Breuer. - A killing / Roger Angell. - Goodbye, my love / Mollie Panter-Downes. - Colette / Vladimir Nabokov. - A clean, quiet house / Daniel Fuchs. - Village incident / James A. Maxwell. - De mortuis... / John Collier. - Then we'll set it right / Robert Gorham Davis. - The mysteries of life in an orderly manner / Jessamyn West. - Porte-Cochère / Peter Taylor. - The evolution of knowledge / Niccolò Tucci. - Continued humid / Mark Schorer. - The baby-amah / Emily Hahn. - Truth and consequences / Brendan Gill. - Between the dark and the daylight / Nancy Hale. - The judgment of Paris / James Reid Parker. - MaryMulcahy / Christopher LaFarge. - The bummers / John Powell. - Under Gemini / Isabel Bolton. - The improvement in Mr. Gaynor's technique / S.N. Behrman. - Black secret / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
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