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April 5, 1994
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
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English
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602
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Collected Stories
April 5, 1994, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Collected stories
1986, Secker & Warburg, Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
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Table of Contents
Preface: The Man in the Overstuffed Chair
Page vii
Introduction
Page xix
The Vengeance of Nitocris
Page 1
A Lady's Beaded Bag
Page 13
Something by Tolstoi
Page 17
Big Black: a Mississippi Idyll
Page 26
The Accent of a Coming Foot
Page 32
Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton
Page 43
Sand
Page 49
Ten Minute Stop
Page 54
Gift of an Apple
Page 63
The Field of Blue Children
Page 70
In Memory of an Aristocrat
Page 79
The Dark Room
Page 93
The Mysteries of the Joy Rio
Page 99
Portrait of a Girl in Glass
Page 110
The Angel in the Alcove
Page 120
Oriflamme
Page 128
The Vine
Page 134
The Malediction
Page 147
The Important Thing
Page 163
One Arm
Page 175
The Interval
Page 189
Tent Worms
Page 200
Desire and the Black Masseur
Page 205
Something about Him
Page 213
The Yellow Bird
Page 221
The Night of the Iguana
Page 229
The Poet
Page 246
Chronicle of a Demise
Page 252
Rubio y Morena
Page 257
The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin
Page 270
Two on a Party
Page 283
Three Players of a Summer Game
Page 303
The Coming of Something to the Widow Holly
Page 326
Hard Candy
Page 335
Man Bring This Up Road
Page 347
The Mattress by the Tomato Patch
Page 359
The Kingdom of Earth
Page 368
"Grand"
Page 379
Mama's Old Stucco House
Page 388
The Knightly Quest
Page 398
A Recluse and His Guest
Page 456
Happy August the Tenth
Page 464
The Inventory at Fontana Bella
Page 477
Miss Coynte of Greene
Page 484
Sabbatha and Solitude
Page 503
Completed
Page 519
Das Wasser Ist Kalt
Page 527
Mother Yaws
Page 544
The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen
Page 552
Bibliographical Notes
Page 571
Edition Notes
Includes bibliography.
The introduction by Gore Vidal appeared in a somewhat different form in the New York Review of Books.
Andreas Brown and Lyle Leverich [assisted] in dating the stories.
Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited.
New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Company.
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