Katherine Congreve is still a rare beauty, and her fashionable summer home in the small Maine village of Hawthorne is an enchanting bastion of Boston-haunted elegance--the picturesque relic of a cherished bygone era. To all appearances Congreve House...
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Short Stories from a Distinctively American VoiceThe Collected Stories of Jean Stafford brings together the major short works of fiction by one of the most unique and compelling American stylists of her generation. In these sto...
Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, The Mountain Lion, first published in 1947. Torn between their mother's world of genteel respe...
This book displays at their height the wit, sensibility and psychological penetration that distinguish Miss Stafford's work. There are nine stories and a novella. They range in mood from the title story, a comic portrait of a resourceful child-crimin...
"Probably the best young prose writer in the U.S.," as Time oncecalled her, Jean Stafford made a selection of her favorite among the stories she published in The New Yorker and elsewhere since 1944. Children Are Bored on Sunday displays at its height...
A provocative story of class struggle, privilege, and poverty that put American author Jean Stafford on the map.Growing up in a fishing village north of Boston between the wars, Sonie, the child of immigrants, is so poor that she must “sleep on a p...