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Great English Short Novels ed. Cyril Connolly (Dial Press, 1953, hc)

3 · Life of Richard Savage · Samuel Johnson · na
87 · Castle Rackrent · Maria Edgeworth · na
163 · The Room in the Dragon Volant · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · na London Society Feb 1872 (+4)
287 · Cousin Phillis · Mrs. Gaskell · na The Cornhill Magazine Nov 1863 (+3)
385 · The Lifted Veil · George Eliot · nv Blackwood’s Jul 1859
433 · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Aug-Sep 1910
477 · The Farcical History of Richard Greenow · Aldous Huxley · na Limbo, Chatto and Windus 1920
537 · The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper · George Meredith · na
593 · Nightmare Abbey · Thomas Love Peacock · na 1818
669 · Liber Amoris · William Hazlitt · na 1823
753 · Between the Acts · Virginia Woolf · na

Wisconsin Fiction: Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Issue ed. Marshall Cook (University of Wisconsin Press 1882280016, Jan ’98, $12.95, 144pp, tp)
Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Vol 85. Contents from Amazon.com.

From the Editor · Marshall Cook · pr
Foreword · Marshall Cook · fw
Dining on Memories at the Starlite Cafe · Marnie Krause · ss
Bachelor Party · C. J. Hribal · ss
How to Save a Cat and Fall in Love · Karen Loeb · ss
Surface Tension · Martha Bergland · ss
December’s Dreams · Thomas Bontly · ss
Marrying Jerry · Margaret Benbow · ss
Energy · Julie King · ss
Putting Up Storms · Carol Sklenicka · ss
Summer Snow · David R. Young · ss
Sand Dollar · Peg Sherry · ss
Two Points · Tom Joseph · ss
Quick Bright Things · Ron Wallace · ss
Saint Philomena, Pray for Us · Gordon Weaver · ss
Fatimata’s Ancestors · David Tabachnick · ss
The Korporat’s Polonaise · Anthony Bukoski · ss
Notes on Contributors · [Misc.] · bg

Dare You: stories to surprise you ed. Wendy Cooling (Dolphin 1-85881-604-1, Nov ’97, £1.00, 71pp, pb, cover by George Smith)
Young-adult anthology of 5 original stories, 2 of genre interest.

1 · The Sarah Song · Ruth Symes · ss *
17 · Anna the Detective · Leon Rosselson · ss *
37 · My Brother the Rabbit · Mary Hooper · ss *; Genre.
45 · The Amazing Mr Endicott · Eric Brown · ss *; Genre.
59 · Chicken · Mary Hoffman · ss *

Out of Us All: Studies in Creative Fiction ed. Susan Cooper (University of London Press Ltd. 340-06347-5, 1969, no price, 160pp, tp)

7 · Preface · Susan Cooper · pr (*) 1969
_007 · Words · Edward Thomas · pm
11 · Captivity and Freedom
11 · St. Joan · George Bernard Shaw · ex Constable 1924
16 · The Prisoners · Stephen Spender · pm
17 · Running Away from School · René Cutforth · ts Lilliput Apr 1956
20 · The Fowler · W. W. Gibson · pm
21 · I Had a Dove · John Keats · pm
21 · Escape Alone · David Howarth · ss
25 · Freedom · Paul · pm
26 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms (*) 1969
28 · Memories
28 · The Almond Tree · Walter de la Mare · ex The English Review Aug 1909
29 · Poem in October · Dylan Thomas · pm
31 · Cider with Rosie · Laurie Lee · ex The Hogarth Press 1959
34 · Free Fall · William Golding · ex Faber and Faber 1959
38 · A Memory · William Allingham · pm
38 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms (*) 1969
40 · Neighbourhoods
40 · Quite Early One Morning · Dylan Thomas · ex J.M. Dent 1954
44 · God Made Sunday · Walter Macken · ex Macmillan 1962
46 · Suburban Dream · Edwin Muir · pm
47 · Magnolia Buildings · Elizabeth Stucley · ex The Bodley Head 1960
49 · Ring of Bright Water · Gavin Maxwell · ex World Books 1962
52 · A Northern Factory Town (Seen from an Upper Slum-Window) · Herbert Palmer · pm
53 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms (*) 1969
56 · The Sea
56 · The Cruel Sea · Nicholas Monsarrat · ex Cassell 1951
64 · The Sea · Eva L. Ogden · pm The Century Magazine Dec 1881
65 · God Made Sunday · Walter Macken · ex Macmillan 1962
68 · The Shell · Mary Webb · pm
68 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms (*) 1969
70 · Love
70 · God Made Sunday · Walter Macken · ex Macmillan 1962
75 · The Picnic · John Logan · pm
77 · The Fourteenth of October · Bryher · ex Pantheon 1952
82 · A Birthday · Christina Rossetti · pm
82 · The Snow Goose · Paul Gallico · ex The Saturday Evening Post Nov 9 1940
87 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms (*) 1969
89 · Journeys
89 · Pied Piper · Nevil Shute · ex Heinemann 1942
94 · The Bridge · J. R. Anderson · pm
95 · Adlestrop · Edward Thomas · pm
96 · Selected Writings · Truman Capote · ex Random House 1963
100 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms (*) 1969
102 · Nature
102 · Loveliest of Trees · A. E. Housman · pm
103 · Ring of Bright Water · Gavin Maxwell · ex World Books 1962
104 · Gone to Earth · Mary Webb · ex Constable 1917
105 · Cider with Rosie · Laurie Lee · ex The Hogarth Press 1959
107 · Tall Nettles · Edward Thomas · pm
108 · Autumn · Robert Gittings · pm
108 · Autumn Scene · John Galsworthy · ms
109 · And Ladders Leaning Against Damson Trees · Frank Kendon · pm
110 · Orlando · Virginia Woolf · ex Crosby Gaige 1928
112 · The Fog · F. R. McCreary · pm
112 · Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening · Robert Frost · pm
113 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms (*) 1969
115 · Gangs and Rebels
115 · The Destructors · Graham Greene · ex Picture Post Jul 24 1954 (+1)
120 · Incendiary · Vernon Scannell · pm
120 · Children of the Sun · Morris West · ex Heinemann 1957
124 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms (*) 1969
126 · Animals
126 · Tarka the Otter · Henry Williamson · ex Putnam 1927
132 · Four Little Foxes · Lew Sarett · pm
133 · The Call of the Wild · Jack London · ex Macmillan US 1903
136 · Mountain Lion · D. H. Lawrence · pm
138 · Charles, the Story of a Friendship · Michael Joseph · ex Michael Joseph 1943
140 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms (*) 1969
142 · Schooldays
142 · Cider with Rosie · Laurie Lee · ex The Hogarth Press 1959
148 · Holiday · Julian Mitchell · pm
148 · There Is a Happy Land · Keith Waterhouse · ex Michael Joseph 1957
153 · Out of School · Hal Summers · pm
154 · The Warden’s Niece · Gillian Avery · ex Collins 1957
157 · Suggestions for Creative Work · Susan Cooper · ms (*) 1969

Revelation & Other Fiction from the Sewane Review: A Centennial Anthology ed. George Core (Harmony House 1564690121, Nov ’92, $23.95, 304pp, hc)
Contents list from Yahoo Books.

9 · Foreword · George Core · fw
15 · Arabesque · Grace Amundson · ss
28 · Cadence · Andre Dubus · nv The Sewanee Review Sum 1974
47 · The Poets · Eugene K. Garber · ss
70 · At the Fence · Merrill Joan Gerber · ss
83 · Mrs. Thing · Donald Hall · ss
91 · The Spirit in Me · William Hoffman · ss The Sewanee Review Spr 1974
103 · Zoo · Madison Jones · ss
118 · The Mahogany Frame · Andrew Lytle · ss
139 · When the Lord Calls · Gloria Norris · ss The Sewanee Review Win 1982
155 · The Love Child · Helen Norris · ss The Sewanee Review Spr 1983
169 · Revelation · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Sewanee Review Spr 1964
189 · Still Lives · Joyce Renwick · ss
204 · Elizabeth · Walter Sullivan · ss The Sewanee Review Sum 1979
227 · Kingdoms · Barry Targan · ss
255 · Rain in the Heart · Peter Taylor · ss The Sewanee Review Jan 1944
273 · Loose Reins · Christopher Tilghman · ss
290 · Ladies in Spring · Eudora Welty · ss
303 · The Authors · [Misc.] · bg

30 Stories to Remember ed. Thomas B. Costain & John Beecroft (Doubleday, 1962, 884pp, hc)

1 · The Split Second · Daphne du Maurier · nv The Apple Tree, London: Gollancz 1952
38 · The Theft of the Mona Lisa · Karl Decker · ar 1932
52 · The Soldiers’ Peaches · Stuart Cloete · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 16 1939
62 · A Night to Remember · Walter Lord · ex 1955
118 · Aerial Football: The New Game · George Bernard Shaw · ss The Neolith Nov 1907
125 · Courtship of My Cousin Doone · Walter D. Edmonds · na The Saturday Evening Post Oct 7 1933 (+1)
175 · Hotel Room · Cornell Woolrich · ex 1958
204 · Two Soldiers · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 28 1942
216 · How We Kept Mother’s Day · Stephen Leacock · vi 1930
219 · The Witness for the Prosecution · Agatha Christie · nv Flynn’s Jan 31 1925, as “Traitor’s Hands”
235 · The Incredible Journey · Sheila Burnford · na 1960
291 · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker Nov 14 1942
298 · Act One · Moss Hart · ex 1959
410 · The Devil and Daniel Webster · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 24 1936
422 · Gigi · Colette; trans. by Roger Senhouse · ss 1952
457 · The Little Minister · Sir James M. Barrie · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine Feb 1924
478 · The Alien Corn · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan Aug 1931
507 · A Profile in Courage [from Profiles in Courage] · John F. Kennedy · ar 1955
521 · The Company of the Marjolaine · John Buchan · ss Atlantic Monthly Feb 1909
539 · First Day Finish · Jessamyn West · ss Atlantic Monthly Aug 1944
547 · The Adventure of the Priory School [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Feb 1904
569 · A Christmas Memory · Truman Capote · ss 1956
578 · Death and Professor Raikes · Alice Duer Miller · na 1929
642 · Leiningen Versus the Ants · Carl Stephenson · nv Esquire Dec 1938
658 · Mrs. ’Arris Goes to Paris · Paul Gallico · na 1957
722 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Aug 1904
738 · Son of a Tinker · Maurice Walsh · ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 28 1940
754 · History Lesson · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Startling Stories May 1949
761 · The Truth About the Flood [from The Bible as Histiry] · Werner Keller · ar 1956
766 · A Candle for St. Jude · Rumer Godden · n. 1948

Rivers to Cross ed. William R. Cox (Dodd, Mead, 1966, hc) [Western]
A Collection of Stories by Members of Western Writers of America, about rivers in the old west. Details supplied by Kent Johnson.

Introduction · William R. Cox · in
Los Caballeros · S. Omar Barker · pm 1954
Down by the Banks of the Pecos · S. Omar Barker · ss 1954
The Cruise of the Prairie Queen · D. D. Beauchamp · ss Cosmopolitan Feb 1947
Sacramento Run · Tom W. Blackburn · ss 1948; Popular Publications
One More River to Cross · William R. Cox · ss *
Big Shad’s Bridge · Max Evans · ss 1965; Sirkay Publishing
Goliad Goes to War · Kenneth Fowler · ss 1948; Popular Pulbications
The Toll at Yaeger’s Ferry · Brian Garfield · ss *
Decision at the Rio Blanco · Norman S. Hall · ss 1954; Popular Publications
Despatch to the General · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s Feb 14 1942, as “Dispatch for the General”
Dobbs Ferry · Lewis B. Patten · ss 1950; Fiction House

Living on the Edge: Fiction by Peace Corps Writers ed. John Coyne (Curbstone Press 1-880-68457-8, Apr ’99, $17.95, 317pp, tp)
Contents from Amazon.com.

Preface · John Coyne · pr
White Lies · Paul Theroux · ss Playboy May 1979
Exile · Marnie Mueller · ss
The Heroes of Our Stories · Mark Brazaitis · ss
Sun · Kathleen Coskran · ss
Easy in the Islands · Bob Shacochis · nv Playboy Feb 1985
The Water-Girl · George Packer · ss
The Guide · Melanie Sumner · ss The New Yorker Apr 26 1993
On the Wheel of Wandering-on · John Givens · ss
On Sunday There Might Be Americans · Leslie Simmonds Ekstrom · ss
The Egg Queen Rises · Mark Jacobs · ss
Mad Dogs · Eileen Drew · ss
The Ones Left Behind · Joan Richter · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1969
A Virgin Twice · Karl Luntta · ss
Ma Kamanda’s Latrine · Marla Kay Houghteling · ss
American Model · Terry Marshall · ss
Snow Man · John Coyne · nv Monsters in Our Midst, ed. Robert Bloch, Tor 1993
Alone In Africa · Norman Rush · ss

The Pan Book of Revenge Stories ed. W. H. Cozens (London: Pan Books 0-330-02771-9, 1971, 176pp, pb)

13 · Captain Rogers · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Feb 1901
25 · The Sun Dog Trail · Jack London · ss Harper’s Dec 1905
46 · Stonewall’s Ghost · Jack Cope · ss Argosy (UK) Feb 1960
64 · A Vendetta · Guy de Maupassant · ss
70 · No Alibi · John P. Foran · ss 1951
82 · Little Kind of Fellow · John McGhee · ss
88 · Laura · Saki · ss Beasts and Super-Beasts, John Lane 1914
94 · The Revenge of Big Michael · Brian Cleeve · ss
108 · The Cone · H. G. Wells · ss Unicorn Sep 18 1895
121 · Scarecrow · David Alexander · ss Manhunt Jul 1955
135 · Arctic Vengeance · Arthur Gordon · ss
144 · The Murder · John Steinbeck · ss North American Review Apr 1934
157 · The Honeymoon · A. Neil Lyons · ss
169 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Nov 1846

The Oxford Book of Modern Women’s Stories ed. Patricia Craig (Oxford University Press 0-192-14232-1, Nov ’94, $30.00, 522pp, hc)
Contents from Amazon.com.

Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s May 1905
Afterward · Edith Wharton · nv The Century Magazine Jan 1910
Hear the Nightingale Sing · Caroline Gordon · ss
Je Ne Parle Pas Francias · Katherine Mansfield · ss
Miss de Mannering of Asham · F. M. Mayor · ss The Room Opposite, London: Longmans, Green 1935
That Tree · Katherine Anne Porter · ss
Look at All Those Roses · Elizabeth Bowen · ss
In a Winter Landscape · Olivia Manning · ss
A Legacy · Virginia Woolf · ss The Haunted House and Other Stories, Harcourt 1944
First Love · Eudora Welty · ss
Is There Life Beyond the Gravy? · Stevie Smith · ss At Close of Eve, ed. Jeremy Scott, London: Jarrolds 1947
Yonder Peasant, Who is He? · Mary McCarthy · ss
Which New Era Would That Be? · Nadine Gordimer · ss
The Day Mr. Prescott Died · Sylvia Plath · ss
The Day Stalin Died · Doris Lessing · ss
The Blush · Elizabeth Taylor · ss 1958
An Interest in Life · Grace Paley · ss 1959
UNO 1945 · Christina Stead · ss
The Rehabilitation of Gineva Leake · Hortense Calisher · ss
The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies · Jean Stafford · ss The Kenyon Review Win 1964
The House of the Famous Poet · Muriel Spark · ss The New Yorker Apr 2 1966
Good Country People · Flannery O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar Jun 1955
Healthy Landscape with Dormouse · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss
Irish Revel · Edna O’Brien · ss
The Butterfly and the Traffic Light · Cynthia Ozick · ss
Scenes of Passion and Despair · Joyce Carol Oates · ss
Something to Tell the Girls · Jane Gardam · ss
A Star and Two Girls · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · ss The Cornhill Magazine Sum 1971
Overture and Beginners Please · Jean Rhys · ss
Hair Jewellery · Margaret Atwood · ss
Puss-in-Boots · Angela Carter · ss The Straw and the Gold, ed. Emma Tennant, Pierrot Books 1979
The Terrors of Basket Weaving · Patricia Highsmith · ss
The Play Reading · Elizabeth Jolley · ss
In the Great War · Fay Weldon · ss
Victory Over Japan · Ellen Gilchrist · ss
On the Day that E.M. Forster Died · A. S. Byatt · ss Sugar and Other Stories, Scribner’s 1987
A Wife’s Story · Bharati Mukherjee · ss
A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss
Meneseteung · Alice Munro · nv The New Yorker 1988
The Prophecy · Anjana Appachana · ss

The Penguin Book of British Comic Writing ed. Patricia Craig (BCA 0-670-83658-3, 1992 [Aug ’94], no price, 460pp, tp)
Reprint (Penguin ???) anthology of humorous writing. [PSP]

ix · Introduction · Patricia Craig · in
1 · Then and Now · Max Beerbohm · hu
6 · ‘Noblesse Oblige’ · Robert Lynd · hu
11 · Mrs Grundy at the Parkers’ · E. M. Forster · hu
16 · Thrillers · P. G. Wodehouse · hu
28 · Trying to Find the Strand · James Stephens · hu
31 · Men’s Clothes · Harold Nicolson · hu
38 · High Life in Victorian Fiction · Hugh Kingsmill · hu
43 · Topsy and the Fresh Mind · A. P. Herbert · hu
47 · Femina’s Supplement · E. M. Delafield · hu
56 · Meet Irene · D. B. Wyndham Lewis · hu
60 · from The Young Rebecca · Rebecca West · ex
66 · Trousers Over Africa · Beachcomber" · hu
75 · from Through Darkest Pondelayo · Serena Livingstone-Stanley · ex
85 · Toujours Lamour · C. A. Lejeune · hu
89 · On Not Rising to the Occasion · Elizabeth Bowen · hu
94 · Faits Divers · V. S. Pritchett · hu
101 · from The Memoirs of Mipsie · Mary Dunn · ex
113 · Boys’ Weeklies · George Orwell · hu
140 · Where Engels Fears to Tread · Cyril Connolly · hu
157 · from The Thirties · Malcolm Muggeridge · ex
174 · Awake My Soul! It Is a Lord · Evelyn Waugh · hu
178 · The Gentle Art of Being Interviewed · Evelyn Waugh · hu
184 · Laughter in the Kitchen · Lord Kinross · hu
188 · A Hoax on Mr Hulton · Graham Greene · hu
192 · from Bestseller · Claud Cockburn · ex
206 · Diary · A. J. P. Taylor · hu
221 · Under the Sugar Loaf · Louis MacNiece · hu
227 · Death and Mrs Dale · Peter Fleming · hu
231 · from People Who Say Goodbye · P. Y. Betts · ex
235 · Christmas Reviews of Books for Girls · Arthur Marshall · hu
251 · Bertie’s Booster · James Cameron · hu
254 · The Trade in Dublin · Flann O’Brien · hu
263 · Case History · Lawrence Durrell · hu
268 · Good Lord, Jeeves · Julian MacLaren-Ross · hu
272 · A Boy’s Best Bodyguard · Patrick Campbell · hu
280 · Doing the Cobblers’ Trot · Patrick Campbell · hu
283 · How to Begin a Story · Dylan Thomas · hu
287 · from A Rose By Any Other Name · Anthony Carson · ex
297 · Sickert at St. Peter’s · Denton Welch · hu
304 · Cheap Clothes for Fat Old Women · Marghanita Laski · hu
307 · A Fresh Eye · Honor Tracy · hu
320 · Age-old Ceremony at Mumbles · Kingsley Amis · hu
325 · from Coastal Lights · Alan Ross · ex
331 · from Clinging to the Wreckage · John Mortimer · ex
339 · from My Family and Other Animals · Gerald Durrell · ex
346 · from Prescriptions of a Pox Doctor’s Clerk · Robert Robinson · ex
355 · Wrong Notes · Bernard Levin · hu
359 · Henry Miller · Brigid Brophy · hu
367 · Miz Peggy · Penelope Gilliatt · hu
372 · Lost Cause · Alice Thomas Ellis · hu
374 · from At Bay in Gear Street · Michael Frayn · ex
380 · from A Word in Time · Philip Howard · ex
386 · Ten Days That Shook Me · Alan Bennett · hu
396 · Bohemia · Alan Coren · hu
403 · Thanks for the Memory · Alan Coren · hu
409 · Mothers and Daughters · Auberon Waugh · hu
413 · A Blizzard of Tiny Kissess · Clive James · hu
422 · from The Female Eunuch · Germaine Greer · ex
433 · A High-class Tipple, Make No Mistake · Miles Kington · hu
436 · The Life and Times of the Famous One · Miles Kington · hu
439 · from Journeys to the Underworld · Fiona Pitt-Kethley · ex

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