STORIES

This book, originally published in 1956 and now reissued with a new introduction by William Peden, Professor of English at the University of Missouri, is not an anthology. In it, four writers- Jean Stafford, John Cheever, Daniel Fuchs, and William Maxwell- have chosen from their work the stories they think most highly of, and they are published together here because the four authors like the idea of appearing in public side by side, and of being read in counterpoint, as it were. Miss Stafford and Messrs. Cheever, Fuchs, and Maxwell have this in common: each is an absolute master of the short story form. Of the fifteen stories in this collection, many will undoubtedly become permanent additions to the literature of the short story in America.