''Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever'' is a volume of short fiction by

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published in 1994 by Academy Chicago Publishers. Most of the works in this collection were written between 1931 and 1942 during which Cheever was in his late teens to his late twenties.

Stories

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" (''The Left'', Autumn, 1931) * " Late Gathering" (''Pagany'', October-December 1931) * "Bock Beer and Bermuda Onions" ('' Hound & Horn'', April-June 1931) * "The Autobiography of a Drummer" (''

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'', March 1936) * "Bayonne" (''

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'', Spring 1936) * "The Princess" (''The New Republic'', October 28, 1936) * "The Teaser" (''The New Republic'', September 8, 1937) * "His Young Wife" (''

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'', January 1, 1938) * "Saratoga" (''Collier's'', October 13, 1938) * "The Man She Loved" (''Collier's'', August 24, 1940) * "The Family Dinner" (''Collier's'', July 25, 1942) * "The Opportunity" ('' Cosmopolitan'', December 1949)

Publication background

The publication of ''Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever'' had its genesis in a copyright dispute beginning in 1988 between a small publisher, Academy Chicago Publishers, and Cheever's widow, Mary Wintemitz Cheever. Mary Cheever had entered into a contract with Academy for the nominal fee of $1500 to permit publication of a sampling of Cheever's uncollected early short fiction, pending family consultation. When the publisher sought to include all the works not published in '' The Stories of John Cheever'' (1978)—a total of 68 stories—a protracted legal struggle ensued. Mary Cheever prevailed, but Academy Chicago succeeded in securing publication rights to a total of thirteen stories whose copyrights had lapsed. These are the stories that appear in ''Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever''.Meanor, 1995 p. 28

Footnotes

Sources

* Bailey, Blake. 2009. Notes on Text in ''John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writing.''

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. Pp.1025-1028 *Cheever, John. 1994. The Uncollected Stories of John Cheever. Edited by Franklin H. Dennis. Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago. *Cheever, John. 2009. John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writing.

. *Hunt, George W. 1993. Introduction to Thirteen Uncollected Works by John Cheever. Chicago Academy Publishers. *Meanor, Patrick. 1995. ''John Cheever Revisited.''

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, New York. *O'Hara, James E. 1989. ''John Cheever: A Study of the Short Fiction.''

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