The best short stories of World War II : an American anthology / edited by Charles A. Fenton

Author:: Fenton, Charles A.
Additional Titles:: Best short stories of World War Two
Published:: New York : The Viking Press, 1957.
Physical Description:: 428 pages ; 22 cm
Additional Creators:: Styron, William, 1925-2006
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
Ellison, Ralph
Jones, James, 1921-1977
Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993
Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984
Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-1997
Mailer, Norman

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Contents:

A judgment in the mountains / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Two soldiers / William Faulkner -- The thirty-year man / James Jones -- Layover in El Paso / Robert Lowry -- Night flight / Josephine W. Johnson -- Health card / Frank Yerby -- Blockbuster / Mark Schorer -- A short wait between trains / Robert McLaughlin -- The birthmark / Thomas Heggen -- Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- Leipzig / Bert Stiles -- The airstrip at Konora / James A. Michener -- Flesh and blood / Laurence Critchell -- Queen penicillin / John Horne Burns -- The women on the wall / Wallace Stegner -- The four freedoms / Edward Newhouse -- Act of faith / Irwin Shaw -- The paper house / Norman Mailer -- School days / Sloan Wilson -- The long march / William Styron.

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Rare Books copy: Contains Styron's "The Long March" (pages 361-421); bibliographer's examination copy. See West (D 3).

Source of Acquisition:

Rare Books copy: Gift of James L. W. West III; 2014.

Reviewed/Cited In:

West, J.L.W. William Styron, D 3

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