Details

Edition

[1st ed.].

Description

479 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents

There ought to be a judge / Jessamyn West -- The head of the family / Dan Jacobson -- Charles / Shirley Jackson -- Hunter's home / Shirley Ann Grau -- Invisible boy / Ray Bradbury -- Come out the wilderness / James Baldwin -- A Christmas story / Katherine Anne Porter -- The open window / Norma Stahl -- The adulterous woman / Albert Camus -- Apple seed and apple thorn / Elizabeth Enright -- Pastor Dowe at Tacaté / Paul Bowles -- A wreath for Miss Totten / Hortense Calisher -- Dermuche / Marcel Aymé -- Mrs. Confedrington / Mary Walker -- The man from Barcelona / P.H. Newby -- The monstrous summer / Madelon Shapiro -- A day in the dark / Elizabeth Bowen -- The proud and virtuous / Doris Betts -- The shopwindow / Alberto Moravia -- The path of the moon / Nadine Gordimer -- Who has seen the wind? / Carson McCullers -- A very young rabbit / C.B. Wood -- By the people / William Faulkner -- Hoods I have known / Sondra Spatt -- The vine / Tennessee Williams -- A glory of the moon / Joyce Cary -- The matchmakers / Jean Stafford -- Eve in darkness / Kaatje Hurlbut -- The patented gate and the mean hamburger / Robert Penn Warren -- Victor / Constance Crawford -- You reach for your wraps / James Purdy -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- The sissy / Frank O'Connor -- Fru Holm / Ilona Karmel -- The petrified woman / Caroline Gordon -- The stone boy / Gina Berriault -- Flying high / Eugene Ionesco -- The capture / Flannery O'Connor -- Winter term / Sallie Bingham -- The city of the living / Wallace Stegner.

Form

Also issued online.

Local Note

Special Coll. Sommer copy: Includes dust jacket. Provenance: Frederick and Wilma Sommer.

Subject

Short stories, American.

Added Author

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980. Christmas story.

McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Who has seen the wind?

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. By the people.

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Vine.

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. Patented gate and the mean hamburger.

Capote, Truman, 1924-1984. Miriam.

O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966. Sissy.

Gordon, Caroline, 1895-1981. Petrified woman.

O'Connor, Flannery. Capture.

Abels, Cyrilly. Editor.

Smith, Margarita G. Editor.

Added Title

Forty best stories from Mademoiselle, 1935-1960

Other Form:

Online version: Mademoiselle. 40 best stories from Mademoiselle, 1935-1960. [1st ed.] New York, Harper [c1960] (OCoLC)587405982