Research Catalog

Title

Short stories from the New Yorker.

Publication

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1940.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Bevans, Tom Torre

Description

3 p., leaves, ix-xii, 438 p.; 24 cm

Summary

65 short stories that appeared in the New Yorker from February, 1925 to September, 1940. Includes stories by Irwin Shaw, John O'Hara, James Thurber, Sherwood Anderson, Erskine Caldwell, E.B. White, Dorothy Parker, Thomas Wolfe, Paul Horgan, Christopher Isherwood, Marc Connelly, John Cheever, among others.

Uniform Title

New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)

Subjects

• Short stories, American
• United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction
• Short stories
• American fiction > 20th century

Genre/Form

Short stories.

Note

• "The sixty-eight stories in this collection were chosen from those appearing in 'The New Yorker' during its first fifteen and a half years of publication--February, 1925, to September, 1940."
• Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.

Contents

• The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw -- Over the river and through the wood / John O'Hara -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- The net / Robert M. Coates -- Home atmosphere / Sally Benson -- A toast to Captain Jerk / Russell Maloney -- Kroy Wen / Kay Boyle -- Nice girl / Sherwood Anderson -- H*Y*M*A*N*K*A*P*L*A*N, samaritan / Leonard Q. Ross -- Prelude to reunion / Oliver La Farge -- A small day / Erskine Caldwell -- Midsummer / Nancy Hale -- The door / E.B. White -- Tourist home / Benedict Thielen -- Arrangement in black and white / Dorothy Parker -- The courtship of Milton Barker / Wolcott Gibbs -- Homecoming / William Maxwell -- Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe -- The works / Nathan Asch -- Do you like it here? / John O'Hara -- Conversation piece / Louise Bogan -- The fury / Robert M. Coates -- Venetian perspective / Janet Flanner -- Ping-pong / St. Clair McKelway -- The three veterans / Leane Zugsmith -- Wet Saturday / John Collier -- Soldiers of the republic / Dorothy Parker -- Houseparty / Walter Bernstein -- All the years of her life / Morley Callaghan -- The explorers / Jerome Weidman -- The old lady / Thyra Samter Winslow -- A matter of pride / Chistopher La Farge -- Love in the snow / Joel Sayre.
• Profession : housewife / Sally Benson -- The great manta / Edwin Corle -- My sister Frances / Emily Hahn -- Accident near Charlottesburg / William A. Krauss -- In honor of their daughter / John Mosher -- The test / Angelica Gibbs -- Goodbye, Shirley Temple / Joseph Mitchell -- Honors and awards / James Reid Parker -- Pastoral at Mr. Piper's / Mollie Panter-Downes -- Man and woman / Erskine Caldwell -- Main currents of American thought / Irwin Shaw -- The knife / Brendan Gill -- The pelican's shadow / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Incident on a street corner / Albert Maltz -- Such a pretty day / Dawn Powell -- Portrait of ladies / Mark Shorer -- Parochial school / Paul Horgan -- I am waiting / Christopher Isherwood -- A letter from the Bronx / Arthur Kober -- Little woman / Sally Benson -- The apostate George Milburn -- Sailor off the Bremen / Irwin Shaw -- Barmecide's feast / Marc Connelly -- Fish story / Donald Moffat -- I've got an anchor on my chest / R.H. Newman -- The happiest days / John Cheever -- Black boy / Kay Boyle -- The nice Judge Trowbridge / Richard Lockridge -- Love in Brooklyn / Daniel Fuchs -- The great-grandmother / Nancy Hale -- Chutzbah / Jerome Weidman -- Mr. Palmer's party / Tess Slesinger -- A different world / Robert M. Coates -- Are we leaving tomorrow? / John O'Hara -- The getaway / Dorothy Thomas.

LCCN

40027816

OCLC

• ocm00964314
• 964314

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries