Jean Stafford: complete stories & other writings

Collected stories of Jean Stafford: Innocents abroad. Maggie Meriwether's rich experience ; Children's game ; Echo and the nemesis ; Maiden ; Modest proposal ; Caveat emptor

Bostonians, and other manifestations of the American scene: Life is no abyss ; Hope chest ; Polite conversation ; Country love story ; Bleeding heart ; Lippia lawn ; Interior castle

Cowboys and indians, and magic mountains: Healthiest girl in town ; Tea time of stouthearted ladies ; Mountain day ; Darkening moon ; Bad characters ; In the zoo ; Liberation ; Reading problem ; Summer day ; 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 ; Captain's gift ; End of a career

Other stories: And lots of solid color

A

reunion

The

home front

A

slight maneuver

The

cavalier

Old flaming youth

The

violet rock

The

connoisseurs

A

winter's tale

The

warlock

My blithe, sad bird

A

reasonable facsimile

The

scarlet letter

The

ordeal of Conrad Pardee

An

influx of poets

Woden's Day

A

mother in history

Selected essays: The psychological novel

Truth and the novelist

An

etiquette for writers

Chronology.