Five Stories (short story collection)

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Five Stories
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1956 p/b edition
Author Willa Cather
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(historical fiction)
Publisher Vintage Books
Publication date
1956
Pages214

Five Stories is a collection of stories, published in 1956 [1] by the Estate of Willa Cather, after the author's death. Several of these stories had been previously published in other collections.

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Contents

This collection contains the following stories: [2]

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References

  1. Liukkonen, Petri. "Willa Siebert Cather". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 16 January 2011.
  2. Table of contents, Vintage Books reprint, 1979