The best American short stories, 1943 : and the yearbook of the American short story / edited by Martha Foley.

This healthy life / Vicki Baum -- Boundary line / Warren Beck -- Frenchman's ship / Kay Boyle -- The pleasures of solitude / John Cheever -- Dream of Angelo Zara / Guido D'Agostino -- Samuel Blane / Murray Dyer -- The bear / William Faulkner -- Beginning of wisdom / Rachel Field -- A partnership with death / Vardis Fisher -- What do you see, dear Enid? / Grace Flandrau -- Time's end / Robert Gibbons -- Threnody for Stelios / Peter Gray -- Who lived and died believing / Nancy Hale -- Peach stone / Paul Horgan -- Enchanted / Laurette MacDuffie Knight -- Little black boys / Clara Laidlaw -- Love is for lovers / Mary Lavin -- Young man in an Astrakhan cap / Edita Morris -- Knife-like, flower-like, like nothing at all in the world / William Saroyan -- Argument in 1934 / Delmore Schwartz -- Preach on the dusty roads / Irwin Shaw -- My public / Margaret Shedd -- Chip off the old block / Wallace Stegner -- Death and my Uncle Felix / Alison Stuart -- Dawn of remembered spring / Jesse Stuart -- Women / Richard Sullivan -- Catbird seat / James Thurber -- Homecoming / Jessie Treichler -- Philadelphia Express / Jerome Weidman -- Asphodel / Eudora Welty.