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1969 short story collection by Jean Stafford

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
First edition cover
AuthorJean Stafford
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
AwardPulitzer Prize for Fiction (1970)

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford is a short story collection by American author Jean Stafford. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1970.

Contents

The Innocents Abroad

  • "Maggie Meriwether's Rich Experience"
  • "The Children's Game"
  • "The Echo and the Nemesis"
  • "The Maiden"
  • "A Modest Proposal"
  • "Caveat Emptor"

The Bostonians, and Other Manifestations of the American Scene

  • "Life is No Abyss"
  • "The Hope Chest"
  • "Polite Conversation"
  • "A Country Love Story"
  • "The Bleeding Heart"
  • "The Lippia Lawn"
  • "The Interior Castle"

Cowboys and Indians, and Magic Mountains

  • "The Healthiest Girl in Town"
  • "The Tea Time of the Stouthearted Ladies"
  • "The Mountain Day"
  • "The Darkening Moon"
  • "Bad Characters"
  • "In the Zoo"
  • "The Liberation"
  • "A Reading Problem"
  • "A Summer Day"
  • "The Philosophy Lesson"

Manhattan Island

  • "Children Are Bored on Sunday"
  • "Beatrice Trueblood's Story"
  • "Between the Porch and the Altar"
  • "I Love Someone"
  • "Cops and Robbers"
  • "The Captain's Gift"
  • "The End of a Career"

References

  1. "The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford". Kirkus Reviews. February 1, 1968. Retrieved October 18, 2024.
  2. "1970 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved October 3, 2022.

External links

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Previously the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel from 1917–1947
1918–1925

1926–1950
1951–1975
1976–2000
2001–present


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