Imprint:New York : Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Description780 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:The man of the world / Frank O'Connor. - Lance / Vladimir Nabokov. - The golden west / Daniel Fuchs. - Just a little more / V.S. Pritchett. - Raise high the roof beam, carpenters / J.D. Salinger. - Bernadette / Mavis Gallant. - The bell of charity / Calvin Kentfield. - Chopin / Natacha Stewart. - Immortality / Robert Henderson. - The happiest I've been / John Updike. - The French scarecrow / William Maxwell. - The code / Richard T. Gill. - What you hear from 'em? / Peter Taylor. - Sentimental education / Harold Brodkey. - Death of a favorite / J.F. Powers. - In a café / Mary Lavin. - Defender of the faith / Philip Roth. - In the village / Elizabeth Bishop. - A father-to-be / Saul Bellow. - Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams. - Can't you get me out of here? / Julia Strachey. - Ask me no questions / Mary McCarthy. - A game of catch / Richard Wilbur. - Elegant economy / Edith Templeton. - First dark / Elizabeth Spencer. - Wedding at Rociada / Oliver LaFarge. - Côte d'Azur / Roger Angell. - The white wild bronco / Benedict Kiely. - The champion of the world / Roald Dahl. - Terror and grief / Niccoló Tucci. - The parson / Penelope Mortimer. - I live on your visits / Dorothy Parker. - The rose, the mauve, the white / Elizabeth Taylor. - Reason not the need / Walter Stone. - The stream / Arturo Vivante. - The interview / R. Prawer Jhabvala. - In the zoo / Jean Stafford. - The rose garden / Maeve Brennan. - The bubble / Nancy Hale. - More friend than lodger / Angus Wilson. - Return / Robert M. Coates. - The children's grandmother / Sylvia Townsend Warner. - Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer. - Kin / Eudora Welty. - The classless society / Elizabeth Hardwick. - First marriage / St. Clair McKelway. - The country husband / John Cheever.
