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Author:

Abrahams, William Miller, 1919- comp.

Title:

Fifty years of the American short story; from the O. Henry awards, 1919-1970. Edited, and with an introd., by William Abrahams.

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Publisher:

Doubleday,

Copyright Date:

1970

Description:

2 v. 22 cm.

Subject:

United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Short stories, American.

Other Titles:

Prize stories.

Notes:

Selections from Prize stories.

Contents:

v. 2. Fire and cloud / Richard Wright. Come out of the wilderness / James Baldwin ; Lost in the funhouse / John Barth ; See the moon? / Donald Barthelme ; The Gonzaga manuscripts / Saul Bellow ; The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The echo / Paul Bowles ; The white horses of Vienna / Kay Boyle ; Night club / Katharine Brush ; Porcelain cups / James Branch Cabell ; Country full of Swedes / Erskine Caldwell ; Miriam / Truman Capote ; The embarkment for Cythera / John Cheever ; The wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark ; I came from yonder mountain / Evan S. Connell, Jr. ; Farewell to Cuba / James Gould Cozzens ; The biggest thing since Custer / William Eastlake ; Barn burning / William Faulkner ; How the mountains are / Jesse Hill Ford ; Twilight in southern California / Daniel Fuchs ; The nickel misery of George Washington Carver Brown / Ivan Gold ; Old red / Caroline Gordon ; The most elegant drawing room in Europe / Nancy Hale ; The girl who sang with the Beatles / Robert Hemenway ; The killers / Ernest Hemingway ; The lottery / Shirley Jackson ; On the island / Josephine Jacobsen ; Man in the drawer / Bernard Malamud ; The hounds of summer / Mary McCarthy ; The jockey / Carson McCullers ; Cleopatra / Marvin Mudrick ; In the region of ice ; Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- v. 2. Everything that rises must converge ; Revelation / Flannery O'Connor ; Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen ; Big blonde / Dorothy Parker ; The downward path to wisdom ; Holiday / Katherine Anne Porter ; Lions, harts, leaping does ; The valiant woman / J.F. Powers ; Under the rose / Thomas Pynchon ; Gal young un / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ; Defender of the faith / Philip Roth ; The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan ; What we don't know hurts us / Mark Schorer ; Gunners' passage / Irwin Shaw ; The everlasting witness / Margaret Shedd ; A country love story ; In the zoo / Jean Stafford ; The man who saw through heaven / Wilbur Daniel Steele ; Beyond the glass mountain / Wallace Stegner ; The promise / John Steinbeck ; Venus, Cupid, folly and time / Peter Taylor ; The doctor's wife ; The Bulgarian poetess / John Updike ; Livvie is back ; The demonstrators / Eudora Welty ; Prohibition / Glenway Wescott ; Fire and cloud / Richard Wright.

LCCN:

71111137

Locations:

OYAX081 -- Boone Campus Library (Boone)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

5DSX232 -- Northeast Jr/Sr High School (Goose Lake)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

30SX663 -- Osage High School (Osage)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)

PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington)