The
Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams -
Publisher's Marketing: "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."
Call number: SAC - PS3545 .I544
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