Collected Stories

Overview:

  • Title: Collected Stories
  • Author: Donald Barthelme
  • Year: 2021
  • ISBN-10: 9781598536843
  • Publisher: The Library of America
  • Price: $45.00
  • Pages: xxv+979
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Collected Stories
  • Notes: $60.00 Canada. Introduction by Charles McGrath, who edited this edition. Reprints the first editions of the following books: Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); City Life (1970); Sadness (1972); Amateurs (1976); Great Days (1979); Excerpts from Sixty Stories (1981); Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Excerpts from Forty Stories (1987); Uncollected Stories. Dust jacket in Library of America series format. Standard series appendices: Chronology (year by year concise biography); Note on the Texts (which gives original publication of all stories included, some of which were revised in their first book publication, given here); Notes. Revised versions of stories reprinted in Sixty Stories and Forty Stories are not used. Some stories are clearly genre oriented, but the experimental nature of the author's work blurs genre and non-genre at times.