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The Stories Of Erskine Caldwell Pub. Date: 10/1/1996 Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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This collection of ninety-six stories was first published in 1953 and presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productive period of work. Included is "Crown-Fire," which James Dickey praised as "the best story in the language," and such personal favorites of Caldwell as "Country Full of Swedes," "The Windfall," "Horse Thief," "Yellow Girl," and "Kneel to the Rising Sun."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780820316949
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 10/1/1996
Pages: 684
Sales rank: 784,335
Series: Brown Thrasher Books Series
Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) was born in Newnan, Georgia. He became one of America's most widely read, prolific, and critically debated writers, with a literary output of more than sixty titles. At the time of his death, Caldwell's books had sold eighty million copies worldwide in more than forty languages. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984.

	Foreword
	After-Image	102
	August Afternoon	439
	Automobile That Wouldn't Run, The	134
	Autumn Courtship, An	534
	Back on the Road	224
	Balm of Gilead	352
	Big Buck	630
	Blue Boy	286
	Candy-Man Beechum	23
	Carnival	147
	Cold Winter, The	253
	Corduroy Pants, The	459
	Country Full of Swedes	3
	Courting of Susie Brown, The	334
	Crown-Fire	464
	Daughter	235
	Day the Presidential Candidate Came to Ciudad Tamaulipas, The	75
	Day's Wooing, A	544
	Dorothy	207
	Dream, The	482
	Empty Room, The	70
	End of Christy Tucker, The	263
	Evelyn and the Rest of Us	291
	Evening in Nuevo Leon, An	365
	First Autumn, The	180
	Fly in the Coffin, The	576
	Girl Ellen, The	119
	Grass Fire, The	402
	Growing Season, The	258
	Hamrick's Polar Bear	588
	Handy	528
	Here and Today	193
	Honeymoon	396
	Horse Thief	200
	Indian Summer	496
	It Happened Like This	294
	Joe Craddock's Old Woman	363
	John the Indian and George Hopkins	165
	Kneel to the Rising Sun	641
	Knife to Cut the Cornbread With, A	602
	Lonely Day, The	241
	Mamma's Little Girl	391
	Man and Woman	18
	Man Who Looked Like Himself, The	610
	Martha Jean	621
	Masses of Men	448
	Mating of Marjorie, The	616
	Maud Island	38
	Meddlesome Jack	317
	Medicine Man, The	214
	Memorandum	347
	Midsummer Passion	540
	Midwinter Guest, The	278
	Molly Cotton-Tail	329
	Negro in the Well, The	140
	New Cabin	382
	Nine Dollars' Worth of Mumble	246
	Over the Green Mountains	80
	People v. Abe Lathan, Colored, The	474
	People's Choice, The	86
	Picking Cotton	115
	Picture, The	340
	Priming the Well	565
	Rachel	269
	Return to Lavinia	96
	Rumor, The	432
	Runaway	469
	Saturday Afternoon	28
	Savannah River Payday	186
	Shooting, The	571
	Sick Horse, The	425
	Slow Death	580
	Small Day, A	488
	Snacker	59
	Squire Dinwiddy	111
	Strawberry Season, The	34
	Summer Accident	552
	Sunfield, The	415
	Swell-Looking Girl, A	507
	Ten Thousand Blueberry Crates	371
	Thunderstorm	310
	Uncle Henry's Love Nest	306
	Uncle Jeff	512
	Very Late Spring, A	358
	Visitor, The	521
	Walnut Hunt, The	559
	Warm River	50
	We Are Looking at You, Agnes	596
	Where the Girls Were Different	410
	Wild Flowers	299
	Windfall, The	150
	Woman in the House, A	127
	Yellow Girl	169

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Anonymous

Posted June 11, 2001

a master story teller

This book contains most of Caldwell's best stories.Despite his plain style Caldwell displays great mastery over nearly all of them.Since they seem simple in style at first sight,they may require careful reading for they usually carry deep meanings and symbols of American experience.Whereas The Medicine Man is a funny story,Kneel to the Rising Sun is bloodcurdling;and while reading Martha Jean you feel great pity.If you are a Caldwell fan,it is a must buy.
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