TY - BOOK AU - Baudin,Maurice TI - Contemporary short stories: representative selections T2 - The American heritage series AV - PS648.S5 C66 PY - 1953///- CY - New York PB - Liberal Arts Press KW - Short stories, American KW - Short stories KW - lcgft N1 - Vol. 1: Xingu / Edith Wharton -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Who dealt? / Ring Lardner -- Your obituary, well written / Conrad Aiken -- Rope / Katherine Anne Porter -- The day the dam broke / James Thurber -- The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benet -- The daring young man on the flying trapeze / William Saroyan -- Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- The hunted / Maurice Baudin, Jr; Vol. 2: Nice girl / Sherwood Anderson -- Blood pressure / Damon Runyon -- Young Man Axelbrod / Sinclair Lewis -- Blue murder / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Old Man Minick / Edna Ferber -- The old demon / Pearl Buck -- Send in your answer / William March -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The undefeated / Ernest Hemingway -- The leader of the people / John Steinbeck -- City folks / Thyra Samter Winslow -- The tuxedos / Jerome Weidman; Vol. 3: A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Biography / Thomas Beer -- Golden wedding / Ruth Suckow -- Children's page / John P. Marquand -- The man who shot snapping turtles / Edmund Wilson -- Uncle Willy / William Faulkner -- The second tree from the corner / E.B. White -- The break / Charles Jackson -- The doctor's son / John O'Hara -- The tooth / Shirley Jackson -- Shut a final door / Truman Capote -- The unspoiled reaction / Mary McCarthy -- First day finish / Jessamyn West ER -