The collected stories of Jean Stafford ; Other stories ; A mother in history ; Selected essays. Includes bibliographical references (pages 873-915).
Contents:
An etiquette for writers -- The innocents abroad. Maggie Meriwether's rich experience -- The children's game -- The echo and the nemesis -- The maiden -- A modest proposal -- Caveat emptor -- The Bostonians, and other manifestations of the American scene: Life is no abyss -- The hope chest -- Polite conversation -- A country love story -- The bleeding heart -- The lippia lawn -- The interior castle -- Cowboys and Indians, and magic mountains: The healthiest girl in town -- The tea time of stouthearted ladies -- The mountain day -- The darkening moon -- Bad characters -- In the zoo -- The liberation -- A reading problem -- A summer day -- The philosophy lesson -- Manhattan Island: Children are bored on Sunday -- Beatrice Trueblood's story -- Between the porch and the altar -- I love someone -- Cops and robbers -- The captain's gift -- The end of a career -- Chronology. And lots of solid color -- A reunion -- The home front -- A slight maneuver -- The cavalier -- Old flaming youth -- The violet rock -- The connoisseurs -- A winter's tale -- The warlock -- My blithe, sad bird -- A reasonable facsimile -- The scarlet letter -- The ordeal of Conrad Pardee -- An influx of poets -- Woden's Day -- A mother in history -- Selected essays: The psychological novel -- Truth and the novelist -- An etiquette for writers -- Chronology.
Summary:
"For the first time, the complete stories of a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the form, plus her fascinating portrait of the mother of one of the world's most infamous assassins"-- Provided by publisher.
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