Cover image for All the days and nights : the collected stories of William Maxwell.
Title:
All the days and nights : the collected stories of William Maxwell.
Author:
Maxwell, William, 1908-2000.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
Physical Description:
x, 415 pages ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780679438298
Format :
Book