Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams

New Directions has long published poet William Carlos Williams' entire body of short fiction as The Farmers' Daughters (1961). This new edition of The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams contains all fifty-two stories combining the early collections The Knife of the Times (1932), Life Along the Possaic (1938) with the later collection Make Light of It (1950) and the great long story, "The Farmers' Daughters" (1956). When these stories first appeared, their vitality and immediacy shocked many readers, as did the blunt, idiosyncratic speech of Williams' immigrant and working-class characters. But the passage of time has silenced the detractors, and what shines in the best of these stories is the unflinching honesty and deep humanity of Williams' portraits, burnished by the seeming artlessness which only the greatest masters command.

ISBN 0811213285   Pages 388 ISBN13 9780811213288 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation   Weight (grammes) 422 Imprint NEW DIRECTIONS   Published in New York Format Paperback   Series ISSN 827 Publication date 01 Jul 1996   Series title New Directions Paperbook Library of Congress 00000000   Height (mm) 204 DEWEY FIC   Width (mm) 129

		Introduction
		The Knife of the Times		3
		A Visit to the Fair		7
		Hands Across the Sea		14
		The Sailor's Son		21
		An Old Time Raid		26
		The Buffalos		33
		Mind and Body		38
		The Colored Girls of Passenack - Old and New		50
		A Descendant of Kings		58
		Pink and Blue		69
		Old Doc Rivers		77
		Life Along the Passaic River		109
		The Girl with a Pimply Face		117
		The Use of Force		131
		A Night in June		136
		The Dawn of Another Day		144
		Jean Beicke		158
		A Face of Stone		167
		To Fall Asleep		177
		The Cold World		185
		Four Bottles of Beer		191
		At the Front		196
		The Right Thing		198
		Second Marriage		201
		A Difficult Man		203
		Danse Pseudomacabre		208
		The Venus		212
		The Accident		221
		Under the Greenwood Tree		225
		World's End		232
		The Burden of Loveliness		245
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