Twenty-one Texas Short Stories
276 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:01 Jan 1954
ISBN:9780292734524
This is a splendid collection of stories about Texas by Texans—stories that appeared in leading magazines in the first half of the twentieth century.
Authors in this volume:
- Dillon Anderson
- Barry Benefield
- Charles Carver
- Margaret Cousins
- Chester T. Crowell
- Eugene Cunningham
- J. Frank Dobie
- Fred Gipson
- William Goyen
- O. Henry
- Sylvan Karchmer
- Harry Kidd, Jr.
- Mary King O’Donnell
- George Pattullo
- George Sessions Perry
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Winifred Sanford
- John W. Thomason, Jr.
- Thomas Thompson
- John Watson
- John W. Wilson
Sheer entertainment .... Each story is meaningful, well written and, above all, good reading.
William Peery (1906–1964) was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tulane University.
- Texas in the Short Story
- John W. Thomason, Jr.: A Preacher Goes to Texas
- O. Henry: Art and the Bronco
- Eugene Cunningham: Bar-Nothing’s Happy Birthday
- George Pattullo: Corazón
- Barry Benefield: Incident at Boiling Springs
- Margaret Cousins: Uncle Edgar and the Reluctant Saint
- Chester T. Crowell: The Stoic
- George Sessions Perry: The Fourflusher
- Katherine Anne Porter: The Grave
- Winifred Sanford: Windfall
- John Watson: Benny and the Tar-Baby
- Mary King O’Donnell: Chicken on the Wind
- Dillon Anderson: Forty Years of Firewood
- J. Frank Dobie: Midas on a Goatskin
- Fred Gipson: My Kind of a Man
- William Goyen: Her Breath upon the Windowpane
- Charles Carver: Hanging Hollow
- Sylvan Karchmer: A Fistful of Alamo Heroes
- Harry Kidd, Jr.: Low Road Go Down
- Thomas Thompson: A Shore for the Sinking
- John W. Wilson: Grass Grow Again
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