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Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.
Introduction The Eight-Yard Run Borough of Cemeteries Main Currents of American Thought Second Mortgage Sailor off the Bremen Strawberry Ice Cream Soda Welcome to the City The Girls in Their Summer Dresses Search Through the Streets of the City The Monument I Stand by Dempsey God on Friday Night Return to Kansas City Triumph of Justice No Jury Would Convict The Lament of Madame Rechevsky The Deputy Sheriff Stop Pushing, Rocky
"March, March on Down the Field"
Free Conscience, Void of Offence Weep in Years to Come The City Was in Total Darkness Night, Birth and Opinion Preach on the Dusty Roads Hamlets of the World Medal from Jerusalem Walking Wounded Night in Algiers Gunners' Passage Retreat Act of Faith The Man with One Arm The Passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins The Dry Rock Noises in the City The Indian in Depth of Night Material Witness Little Henry Irving The House of Pain A Year to Learn the Language The Greek General The Green Nude The Climate of Insomnia Goldilocks at Graveside Mixed Doubles A Wicked Story Age of Reason Peter Two The Sunny Banks of the River Lethe The Man Who Married a French Wife Voyage Out, Voyage Home Tip on a Dead Jockey The Inhabitants of Venus In the French Style Then We Were Three God Was Here But He Left Early Love on a Dark Street Small Saturday Pattern of Love Whispers in Bedlam Where All Things Wise and Fair Descend Full Many a Flower Circle of Light
Overview
Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.