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''The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford'' is a short story collection by
Jean Stafford Jean Stafford (July 1, 1915 – March 26, 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for ''The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford'' in 1970. Biography She was born in Covina, California, to Ma ...
. It won the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during ...
in 1970.


Contents


''The Innocents Abroad''

*"Maggie Meriwether's Rich Experience" *"The Children's Game" *"The Echo and the Nemesis" *"The Maiden" *"A Modest Proposal" *"Caveat Emptor"


''The Bostonians, and Other Manifestations of the American Scene''

*"Life is No Abyss" *"The Hope Chest" *"Polite Conversation" *"A Country Love Story" *"The Bleeding Heart" *"The Lippia Lawn" *"The Interior Castle"


''Cowboys and Indians, and Magic Mountains''

*"The Healthiest Girl in Town" *"The Tea Time of the Stouthearted Ladies" *"The Mountain Day" *"The Darkening Moon" *"Bad Characters" *"In the Zoo" *"The Liberation" *"A Reading Problem" *"A Summer Day" *"The Philosophy Lesson"


''Manhattan Island''

*"Children Are Bored on Sunday" *"Beatrice Trueblood's Story" *"Between the Porch and the Altar" *"I Love Someone" *"Cops and Robbers" *"The Captain's Gift" *"The End of a Career"


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Photos of the first edition of ''The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford''
1969 short story collections Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning works American short story collections Farrar, Straus and Giroux books {{1970s-story-collection-stub