Title: The Egg
Title Record # 1689726
Author: Sherwood Anderson
Date: 1920-03-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
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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 |
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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 | |
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 |