Fifty Best American Short Stories

Martha Foley, Elsie Singmaster, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, William March, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilbur Daniel Steele, William Saroyan, Thomas Wolfe, Tess Slesinger, Pietro Di Donato, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Kay Boyle, Irwin Shaw, Nancy Hale, Paul Horgan, Jesse Stuart, James Thurber, Lionel Trilling, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, John Cheever, George P. Elliott, Hortense Calisher, Ray Bradbury, Tennessee Williams, James Agee, Bernard Malamud, Augusta Wallace Lyons, Shirley Jackson, Lawrence Sargent Hall, James Baldwin, George P. Garrett, John Updike, John Stewart Carter, William Eastlake, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Wolfe, Robert M. Coates, James Agee, Frank Butler, Tillie Olsen, H. W. Blattner, Jean Stafford, Philip Roth, M. (Ed.) Foley, Martha (Editor) Foley

Contents: Survivors / Elsie Singmaster -- Lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Golden honeymoon / Ring W. Lardner -- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson -- My old man / Ernest Hemingway -- Telephone call / Dorothy Parker -- Double birthday / Willa Cather -- Faithful wife / Morley Callaghan -- Little wife / William March -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald-- How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan -- Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe -- Life in the day of a writer / Tess Slesinger -- Iron City / Lovell Thompson -- Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner -- Net / Robert M. Coates -- Nothing ever breaks except the heart / Kay Boyle -- Search through the streets of the city / Irwin Shaw...

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