The Stories of John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer." It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979; the paperback version won the American Book Award for Fiction in 1981.

Stories included in the collection

• "Goodbye, My Brother"
• "The Common Regular Day"
• "The Enormous Radio"
• "O City of Broken Dreams"
• "The Hartleys"
• "The Sutton Place Story"
• "The Summer Farmer"
• "Torch Song"
• "The Pot of Gold"
• "Clancy in the Tower of Babel"
• "Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor"
• "The Season of Divorce"
• "The Chaste Clarissa"
• "The Cure"
• "The Superintendent"
• "The Children"
• "The Sorrows of Gin"
• "O Youth and Beauty!"
• "The Day the Pig Fell into the Well"
• "The Five-Forty-Eight"
• "Just One More Time"
• "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill"
• "The Bus to St. James's"
• "The Worm in the Apple"
• "The Trouble of Marcie Flint"
• "The Bella Lingua"
• "The Wrysons"
• "The Country Husband"
• "The Duchess"
• "The Scarlet Moving Van"
• "Just Tell Me Who It Was"
• "Brimmer"
• "The Golden Age"
• "The Lowboy"
• "The Music Teacher"
• "A Woman Without a Country"
• "The Death of Justina"
• "Clementina"
• "Boy in Rome"
• "A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear"
• "The Chimera"
• "The Seaside Houses"
• "The Angel of the Bridge"
• "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow"
• "A Vision of the World"
• "Reunion"
• "An Educated American Woman"
• "Metamorphoses"
• "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin"
• "Montraldo"
• "The Ocean"
• "Marito in Città"
• "The Geometry of Love"
• "The Swimmer"
• "The World of Apples"
• "Another Story
• "Percy"
• "The Fourth Alarm"
• "Artemis, the Honest Well Digger"
• "Three Stories"
• "The Jewels of the Cabots"

External links

• Photos of the first edition of The Stories of John Cheever
• Paul Gray, "Inescapable Conclusions" (review), Time, Oct. 16, 1978