Stories included in the collection

• "Goodbye, My Brother"
• "The Common Regular Day"
• "The Enormous Radio
  The Enormous Radio
  The Enormous Radio is a short story written by John Cheever in 1947. It first appeared in the May 17, 1947 issue of The New Yorker and was later collected in The Enormous Radio and Other Stories...
  
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• "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
  The Five-Forty-Eight
  "The Five-Forty-Eight" is a 1954 short story by John Cheever published in The Stories of John Cheever, though it may have been published previously. The story is about a businessman called Blake, who is accosted on a train at gunpoint by his former secretary, named Miss Dent...
  
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• "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
  Reunion (short story)
  Reunion is a short story by the American writer John Cheever, first published in 1962.- Summary :An unnamed narrator recalls his final, 90-minute meeting in New York City with his father, an alcoholic, also unnamed. The narrator describes himself as a boy, but we do not get his exact age...
  
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• "An Educated American Woman"
• "Metamorphoses"
• "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin"
• "Montraldo"
• "The Ocean"
• "Marito in Città"
• "The Geometry of Love"
• "The Swimmer
  The Swimmer
  "The Swimmer" a short story by American author John Cheever, published in 1964 in the short story collection The Brigadier and the Golf Widow. Originally conceived as a novel and pared down from over 150 pages of notes, it is probably Cheever's most famous and frequently anthologized story...
  
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• "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
  Time (magazine)
  Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
  
  , Oct. 16, 1978