The Best American short stories, 1954 : and The Yearbook of the American short story /
edited by Martha Foley.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1954.
- xiv, 432 p. ; 21 cm.
A great reckoning a little room / Geoffrey Bush -- A beautiful night for Orion / Richard Clay -- The sense that in the scene delights / Benjamin DeMott -- A stop on the way to Texas / Ward Dorrance -- The firebird / LeGarde S. Doughty -- Apple seed and apple thorn / Elizabeth Enright -- My brother down there / Steve Frazee -- A change of air / Ivan Gold -- Farewell, sweet love / Priscilla Health -- The house on the Esplanade / Anne Hebert -- Char on Raven's bench / Frank Holwerda -- Gertrude and Sidney / Randall Jarrell -- No way down / Almet Jenks -- The latter end / George Loveridge -- The game / Frances Gray Patton -- The Red Mountain / Robert Payne -- The mango tree / Rosanne Smith Robinson -- In the French style / Irwin Shaw -- The shorn lamb / Jean Stafford -- The pale green fishes / Kressmann Taylor -- The third guest / B. Traven -- The man in gray / Christine Weston -- The indomitable blue / Ira Wolfert -- The rock / Vurrell Yentzen.
American fiction--20th century. Short stories, American. Canadian fiction--20th century. Short stories, Canadian.