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The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever

First published 1982
Publisher Ballantine Books
Format Paperback
Type Collection
Pages xii+819
Price $3.50
ISBN 0345284364

  • Copyright page: "Third edition: July 1982"
  • Quite a few of Cheever's stories contain at least a slight element of the surreal or magical. I have listed some of those in the contents below, but there are likely to be others that I haven't identified. For reference, the remaining stories in this volume are:
    • 1 • Goodbye, My Brother • novelette
    • 23 • The Common Day • ss
    • 48 • O City of Broken Dreams
    • 67 • The Hartleys • ss
    • 76 • The Sutton Place Story • ss
    • 93 • The Summer Farmer • ss
    • 122 • The Pot of Gold • ss
    • 139 • Clancy in the Tower of Babel • ss
    • 151 • Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor • ss
    • 161 • The Season of Divorce • ss
    • 172 • The Chaste Clarissa • ss
    • 183 • The Cure • ss
    • 194 • The Superintendent • ss
    • 209 • The Children • ss
    • 234 • The Sorrows of Gin • ss
    • 249 • O Youth and Beauty! • ss
    • 259 • The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well • novelette
    • 280 • The Five-Forty-Eight • ss
    • 294 • Just One More Time • ss
    • 300 • The Housebreaker of Shady Hill
    • 320 • The Bus to St. James's • ss
    • 338 • The Worm in the Apple • ss
    • 342 • The Trouble of Marcie Flint • ss
    • 358 • The Bella Lingua
    • 378 • The Wrysons • ss
    • 410 • The Duchess • ss
    • 425 • The Scarlet Moving Van • ss
    • 437 • Just Tell Me Who It Was • ss
    • 456 • Brimmer • ss
    • 468 • The Golden Age • ss
    • 477 • The Lowboy • ss
    • 499 • A Woman Without a Country • ss
    • 516 • Clementine • ss
    • 533 • Boy in Rome • ss
    • 551 • A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear • ss
    • 568 • The Seaside Houses • ss
    • 578 • The Angel of the Bridge • ss
    • 588 • The Brigadier and the Golf Widow • ss
    • 611 • Reunion • ss
    • 614 • An Educated American Woman • ss
    • 662 • Montraldo • ss
    • 669 • The Ocean • ss
    • 690 • Marito in Città • ss
    • 702 • The Geometry of Love • ss
    • 725 • The World of Apples • ss
    • 737 • Another Story • ss
    • 750 • Percy • ss
    • 762 • The Fourth Alarm • ss
    • 768 • Artemis, the Honest Well Digger • ss
    • 793 • Three Stories • ss
    • 804 • The Jewels of the Cabots • ss

Searching by ISBN: 0345284364

Page Title Author(s) Type
37 The Enormous Radio John Cheever Short Story
105 Torch Song John Cheever Short Story
384 The Country Husband John Cheever Novelette
487 The Music Teacher John Cheever Short Story
505 The Death of Justina John Cheever Short Story
558 The Chimera John Cheever Short Story
604 A Vision of the World John Cheever Short Story
632 Metamorphoses John Cheever Short Story
654 Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin John Cheever Short Story
713 The Swimmer John Cheever Short Story