Fifty Best American Short Stories

My old man / Ernest Hemingway —

Telephone call / Dorothy Parker —

Double birthday / Willa Cather —

Faithful wife / Morley Callaghan —

Little wife / William March —

Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald—

How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele —

Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan —

Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe —

Life in the day of a writer / Tess Slesinger —

Iron City / Lovell Thompson —

Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato —

Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck —

Bright and morning star / Richard Wright —

Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner —

Net / Robert M. Coates —

Nothing ever breaks except the heart / Kay Boyle —

Search through the streets of the city / Irwin Shaw —

Who lived and died believing / Nancy Hale —

Peach stone / Paul Horgan —

Dawn of remembered spring / Jesse Stuart —

Catbird seat / James Thurber —

Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling —

Wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark —

Enormous radio / John Cheever —

Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford —

NRACP / George P. Elliott —

In Greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher —

Other foot / Ray Bradbury —

Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams —

Mother's tale / James Agee —

Magic barrel / Bernard Malamud —

Circle in the fire / Flannery O'Connor —

First flower / Augusta Wallace Lyons —

Contest for Aaron Gold / Philip Roth —

One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson —

To the wilderness I wander / Frank Butler —

Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall —

This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin —

Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen —

Old army game / George Garrett —

Pigeon feathers / John Updike —

Sound of a drunken drummer / H.W. Blattner —

Keyhole eye / John Stewart Carter —

Long day's dying / William Eastlake —

Upon the sweeping flood / Joyce Carol Oates.