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The Best American Short Stories 1954: and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

The Best American Short Stories 1954: and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

Richard Clay
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In this collection of short stories are names familiar and unfamiliar, but each of the stories chosen by Martha Foley's discriminating eye is individual and interesting. As the Saturday Review has said, "Miss Foley has achieved a remarkable success with her eleven volumes in keeping the living flesh from hardening into marble; she has steadfastly refused to admit any restrictions but those of quality, and her choices display an extraordinary catholicity of taste."

The short story has an outstanding place in American literature and an almost universal audience throughout the country. But even the most ardent lover of the genre can hardly keep up with a hundred or more magazines. Nor would he be likely to have the patience to wade through the thousands of stories that are published each year in order to find the few that shouldn't be missed.

There is, therefore, a real need for collections which preserve the cream of the year's short story crop. Since its foundation in 1915 The Best American Short Stories series is held by literary critics at large. An example of this esteem can be found in a quotation from last year's Herald Tribute: "Devotees of the short story," wrote Gene Baro, 'will find martha Foley's 'The Best American Short Stories, 1953' up to the high standard of taste and literary merit she has so consistently fostered in this annual series."

Jacket by George Kelly

A Great Reckoning in 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 Franzee
A Change of Air Ivan Gold
Farewell, Sweet Love Priscilla Heath
The House on the Esplanade Anne Hébert
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


Description from inside jacket & back cover
Language
English
Pages
430
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Release
May 06, 2022

The Best American Short Stories 1954: and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

Richard Clay
4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
In this collection of short stories are names familiar and unfamiliar, but each of the stories chosen by Martha Foley's discriminating eye is individual and interesting. As the Saturday Review has said, "Miss Foley has achieved a remarkable success with her eleven volumes in keeping the living flesh from hardening into marble; she has steadfastly refused to admit any restrictions but those of quality, and her choices display an extraordinary catholicity of taste."

The short story has an outstanding place in American literature and an almost universal audience throughout the country. But even the most ardent lover of the genre can hardly keep up with a hundred or more magazines. Nor would he be likely to have the patience to wade through the thousands of stories that are published each year in order to find the few that shouldn't be missed.

There is, therefore, a real need for collections which preserve the cream of the year's short story crop. Since its foundation in 1915 The Best American Short Stories series is held by literary critics at large. An example of this esteem can be found in a quotation from last year's Herald Tribute: "Devotees of the short story," wrote Gene Baro, 'will find martha Foley's 'The Best American Short Stories, 1953' up to the high standard of taste and literary merit she has so consistently fostered in this annual series."

Jacket by George Kelly

A Great Reckoning in 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 Franzee
A Change of Air Ivan Gold
Farewell, Sweet Love Priscilla Heath
The House on the Esplanade Anne Hébert
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


Description from inside jacket & back cover
Language
English
Pages
430
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Release
May 06, 2022

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