Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1925 to 1940 (1940)

by New Yorker

Other authors: Sally Benson (Contributor), Louise Bogan (Contributor), Kay Boyle (Contributor), John Cheever (Contributor), Robert M. Coates (Contributor) — 8 more, Nancy Hale (Contributor), John O'Hara (Contributor), Mollie Panter-Downes (Contributor), Dorothy Parker (Contributor), Dawn Powell (Contributor), Irwin Shaw (Contributor), James Thurber (Contributor), E.B. White (Contributor)

Series: Stories from The New Yorker (1)

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interesting to see how taste in short stories has changed. all very short- 4 pages.
a lot of stories about how rotten women are--some by women. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
New Yorker	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Benson, Sally	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bogan, Louise	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Boyle, Kay	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cheever, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Coates, Robert M.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hale, Nancy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
O'Hara, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Panter-Downes, Mollie	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Parker, Dorothy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Powell, Dawn	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Shaw, Irwin	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Thurber, James	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
White, E.B.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses by Irwin Shaw

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces by James Thurber

The Net by Robert M. Coates

Home Atmosphere by Sally Benson

A Toast to Captain Jerk by Russell Maloney

Kroy Wen by Kay Boyle

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Nice Girl by Sherwood Anderson

H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n, Samaritan by Leonard Q. Ross

Prelude to Reunion by Oliver La Farge

Midsummer by Nancy Hale

The Door by E. B. White

Tourist Home by Benedict Thielen

Arrangement in Black and White by Dorothy Parker

The Courtship of Milton Barker by Wolcott Gibbs

Homecoming by William Maxwell

The Works by Nathan Asch

Do You Like It Here? by John O'Hara

Over the River and Through the Woods by John O'Hara

Conversation Piece by Louise Bogan

The Fury by Robert M. Coates

Venetian Perspective by Janet Flanner

Ping-Pong by St. Clair McKelway

The Three Veterans by Leane Zugsmith

Wet Saturday [short story] by John Collier

Soldiers of the Republic by Dorothy Parker

Houseparty by Walter Bernstein

Only the Dead Know Brooklyn [short story] by Thomas Wolfe

All the Years of Her Life by Morley Callaghan

The Explorers by Jerome Weidman

The Old Lady [short story] by Thyra Samter Winslow

A Matter of Pride by Christopher La Farge

Love in the Snow by Joel Sayre

Profession: Housewife by Sally Benson

The Great Manta by Edwin Corle

My Sister Frances by Emily Hahn

Accident Near Charlottesburg by William A Krauss

In Honor of Their Daughter by John Mosher

The Test by Angelica Gibbs

Goodbye, Shirley Temple by Joseph Mitchell

Honors and Awards by James Reid Parker

Pastoral at Mr. Piper's by Molly Panter-Downes

Man and Woman by Erskine Caldwell

The Knife by Brendan Gill

The Pelican's Shadow by Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan

Incident on a Street Corner by Albert Maltz

Such a Pretty Day by Dawn Powell

Portrait of Ladies by Mark Schorer

Parochial School by Paul Horgan

I Am Waiting by Christopher Isherwood

A Letter from the Bronx by Arthur Kober

Little Woman by Sally Benson

The Apostate by George Milburn

Sailor Off the Bremen by Irwin Shaw

Barmecide's Feast by Marc Connelly

Fish Story by Donald Moffat

I've Got an Anchor on My Chest by R. H Newman

The Happiest Days by John Cheever

Black Boy by Kay Boyle

The Nice Judge Trowbridge by Richard Lockridge

Love in Brooklyn by Daniel Fuchs

The Great-Grandmother by Nancy Hale

Chutzbah by Jerome Weidman

Mr. Palmer's Party by Tess Slesinger

A Different World by Robert M. Coates

Are We Leaving Tomorrow? by John O'Hara

The Getaway by Dorothy Thomas

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty [short fiction] by James Thurber (indirect)

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Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1925 to 1940

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Please distinguish among:

(a) Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1925 to 1940 (68 stories, by Sherwood Anderson, Nathan Asch, Louise Bogan, Kay Boyle, Erskine Caldwell, Morley Callaghan, John Cheever, Edwin Corle, Janet Flanner, Brendan Gill, Paul Horgan, Christopher Isherwood, Arthur Kober, Oliver La Farge, Joseph Mitchell, R.H. Newman, John O’Hara, Mollie Panter-Downes, Dorothy Parker, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Leonard Q. Ross, Irwin Shaw, James Thurber, E.B. White, Thomas Wolfe and others; 1940);

(b) 55 Stories from The New Yorker (25th anniversary volume; 55 stories from 1940 to 1950, by John Cheever, Shirley Jackson, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Vladimir Nabokov, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, J.D. Salinger, James Thurber, E.B. White and others; 1949);

(c) Stories from The New Yorker, 1950 to 1960 (35th anniversary volume; stories; c.1965); and

(d) Stories from The New Yorker (three-volume collection box set).

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