The Best American short stories, 1956 : and The Yearbook of the American short story /
The Best American short stories, 1956 : and The Yearbook of the American short story /
edited by Martha Foley.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1956.
- xii, 368 p. ; 21 cm.
In the early winter / Roger Angell -- The snow owl / Morris Brown -- We're all guests / George R. Clay -- In a foreign city / Robert M. Coates -- The undertow / Wesley Ford Davis -- The devil on a hot afternoon / Ward Dorrance -- The hobo / Harris Downey -- The quiet chimneys / William Eastlake -- Is he dead? / George P. Elliott -- Free the canaries from the cages! / Arthur Granit -- How Levon Dai was surrendered to the Edemuses / Marjorie Anais Housepian -- One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson -- The Mexican girl / Jack Kerouac -- Creole love song / Nathaniel LaMar -- The first flower / Augusta Wallace Lyons -- Twenty below, at the end of a lane / Ruth Branning Molloy -- The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor -- The contest for Aaron Gold / Philip Roth -- The machine / John Shepley -- Four Annas / Christine Weston -- Reginald Pomfret Skeleton / Samuel Yellen.
American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, American.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
PS643 / .B47 1956
In the early winter / Roger Angell -- The snow owl / Morris Brown -- We're all guests / George R. Clay -- In a foreign city / Robert M. Coates -- The undertow / Wesley Ford Davis -- The devil on a hot afternoon / Ward Dorrance -- The hobo / Harris Downey -- The quiet chimneys / William Eastlake -- Is he dead? / George P. Elliott -- Free the canaries from the cages! / Arthur Granit -- How Levon Dai was surrendered to the Edemuses / Marjorie Anais Housepian -- One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson -- The Mexican girl / Jack Kerouac -- Creole love song / Nathaniel LaMar -- The first flower / Augusta Wallace Lyons -- Twenty below, at the end of a lane / Ruth Branning Molloy -- The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor -- The contest for Aaron Gold / Philip Roth -- The machine / John Shepley -- Four Annas / Christine Weston -- Reginald Pomfret Skeleton / Samuel Yellen.
American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, American.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.
PS643 / .B47 1956