Short Stories, United States, Manners and customs 

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. 

Publisher Comments
These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not only illuminate whole lives but also convey with an elegant economy of words the sense of the place and time in which her protagonists find themselves. This volume also includes the acclaimed story "An Influx of Poets," which has never before appeared in book form.
Review
"The appearance of these stories in one volume is an event in our literature. To have built up so distinguished a collection, each story excellent in its own way and each an original departure in relation to the others, is a triumph. " --Guy Davenport, New York Times Book Review

About the Author
Jean Stafford (1915-79) was the author of three novels as well as several children's and nonfiction books. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1970. 

Genre/Form: Short stories
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979.
Collected stories of Jean Stafford.
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1969
(OCoLC)1162619826
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jean Stafford

ISBN: 0374126321 9780374126322
OCLC Number: 1948
Awards: Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1970.
Description: 463 pages ; 22 cm
Contents: Maggie Meriwether's rich experience --
The children's game --
The echo and the nemesis --
The maiden --
A modest proposal --
Caveat emptor --
Life is no abyss --
The hope chest --
Polite conversation --
A country love story --
The bleeding heart --
The Lippia lawn --
The interior castle --
The healthiest girl in town --
The tea time of stouthearted ladies --
The mountain day --
The darkening moon --
Bad characters --
In the zoo --
The liberation --
The reading problem --
A summer day --
The philosophy lesson --
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.
Other Titles: Short stories