Author:
Lesser, M. X. ed.
Imprint:New York : McGraw-Hill, 1962.
Description460 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:The downward path to wisdom / Katherine Anne Porter. - My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor. - The use of force / William Carlos Williams. - The tree / Dylan Thomas. - Songs my father sang me / Elizabeth Bowen. - The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence. - Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren. - The sorrows of gin / John Cheever. - The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster. - The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor. - The innocent / Graham Greene. - Barn burning / William Faulkner. - Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken. - The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth. - Araby / James Joyce. - A visit of charity / Eudora Welty. - The capital of the world / Ernest Hemingway. - Wunderkind / Carson McCullers. - Susanna at the beach / Herbert Gold. - The freshest boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald. - The garden party / Katherine Mansfield. - Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth / John Updike. - Paul's case / Willa Cather. - Your body is a jewel box / Kay Boyle. - Ah, the university / John Collier. - Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling. - I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson. - Flight / John Steinbeck. - A summer's reading / Bernard Malamud. - A tree of night / Truman Capote. - Youth / Joseph Conrad. - In dreams begin responsibility / Delmore Schwartz.
