Short Stories from the New Yorker

Contents

The girls in their summer dresses by Irwin Shaw

Over the river and through the wood by John O'Hara

The secret life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

The net by Robert M. Coates

Home atmosphere by Sally Benson

A toast to Captain Jerk by Russell Maloney

Kroy Wen by Kay Boyle

Nice girl by Sherwood Anderson

H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, samaritan by Leonard Q. Ross

Prelude to reunion by Oliver La Farge

A small day by Erskine Caldwell

Midsummer by Nancy Hale

The door by E.B. White

Tourist home by Benedict Thielen

Arrangement in black and white by Dorothy Parker

The courtship of Milton Barker by Wolcott Gibbs

Homecoming by William Maxwell

Only the dead know Brooklyn by Thomas Wolfe

The works by Nathan Asch

Do you like it here? by John O'Hara

Conversation piece by Louise Bogan

The fury by Robert M. Coates

Venetian perspective by Janet Flanner

Ping-pong by St. Clair McKelway

The three veterans by Leane Zugsmith

Wet Saturday by John Collier

Soldiers of the republic by Dorothy Parker

Houseparty by Walter Bernstein

All the years of her life by Morley Callaghan

The explorers by Jerome Weidman

The old lady by Thyra Samter Winslow

A matter of pride by Christopher La Farge

Love in the snow by Joel Sayre. Profession : housewife by Sally Benson

The great manta by Edwin Corle

My sister Frances by Emily Hahn

Accident near Charlottesburg by William A.