All the days and nights : the collected stories of William Maxwell

All the days and nights The collected stories of William Maxwell

William Maxwell, 1908-2000

Book - 1995

A collection of stories selected from previously published works in addition to eight new stories.

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Subjects
City and town life > Illinois > Fiction.
Americans > France > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Families > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Short stories.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Published
New York : Vintage International/Vintage Books 1995.
Language
English
Main Author
William Maxwell, 1908-2000 (-)
Edition
1st Vintage International ed
Physical Description
x, 415 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780679761020
  • Over by the river
  • The Trojan women
  • The pilgrimage
  • The patterns of love
  • What every boy should know
  • A game of chess
  • The French scarecrow
  • Young Francis Whitehead
  • A final report
  • Haller's second home
  • The gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel
  • The value of money
  • The thistles in Sweden
  • The poor orphan girl
  • The lily-white boys
  • Billie Dyer
  • Love
  • The man in the moon
  • With reference to an incident at a bridge
  • My father's friends
  • The front and the back parts of the house
  • The holy terror
  • What he was like
  • (to be continued).
  • (Continued) A Set of Twenty-one Improvisations : A love story
  • The industrious tailor
  • The country where nobody ever grew old and died
  • The fisherman who had nobody to go out in his boat with him
  • The two women friends
  • The carpenter
  • The man who had no friends and didn't want any
  • A fable begotten of an echo of a line of verse by W.B. Yeats
  • The blue finch of Arabia
  • The sound of waves
  • The woman who never drew breath except to complain
  • The masks
  • The man who lost his father
  • The old woman whose house was beside a running stream
  • The pessimistic fortune-teller
  • The printing office
  • The lamplighter
  • The kingdom where straightforward, logical thinking was admired over every other kind
  • The old man at the railroad crossing
  • A mean and spiteful toad
  • All the days and nights.
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Maxwell, a longtime New Yorker editor as well as an award-winning novelist, presents stories spanning more than 50 years. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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