• Publication: The Stories of John CheeverPublication Record # 639125
• Author: John Cheever
• Date: 1982-07-00
• ISBN: 0-345-28436-4 [978-0-345-28436-5]
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Price:
  $3.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: xii+819
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • 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

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 37 • The Enormous Radio • (1947) • short story by John Cheever
• 105 • Torch Song • (1947) • short story by John Cheever
• 384 • The Country Husband • (1954) • novelette by John Cheever
• 487 • The Music Teacher • (1959) • short story by John Cheever
• 505 • The Death of Justina • (1960) • short story by John Cheever
• 558 • The Chimera • (1961) • short story by John Cheever
• 604 • A Vision of the World • (1962) • short story by John Cheever
• 632 • Metamorphoses • (1963) • short story by John Cheever
• 654 • Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin • (1963) • short story by John Cheever
• 713 • The Swimmer • (1964) • short story by John Cheever