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Title: The Egg

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Title: The Egg Title Record # 1689726
Author: Sherwood Anderson
Date: 1920-03-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First printed as 'The Triumph of the Egg' in 'The Dial' March 1920.
Synopsis: A man desperately wants to be successful; he starts a chicken farm, the bids die, and everything fails. He can't even master the parlor trick of making an egg stand on end.
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
100 Hilarious Little Howlers 1999-10-00 ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg Barnes & Noble Books 0-7607-1385-5
$7.98?$: US dollar
483
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Lucy Corvino Checkmark
Great American Short Stories 2002-07-23 ed. Paul Negri Dover Publications (Dover Thrift Editions) 0-486-42119-8
$3.50?$: US dollar
vi+
248
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Checkmark
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