A Donald Barthelme Collection


Title:  60 Stories
Printing:  First
Year of publication:  1982
Publisher:  Putman
City:  New York
Number of Pages:  457
Cover:  hard cover
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:  81-8646
ISBN:  0-399-12659-7


Table of contents


    from Come Back, Dr. Caligari

  1. Margins
  2. A Shower of Gold
  3. Me and Miss Mandible
  4. For I'm The Boy
  5. Will You Tell Me?


    6. from Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts

  6. The Balloon
  7. The President
  8. Game
  9. Alice
  10. Robert Kennedy Saved From Drowning
  11. Report
  12. The Dolt
  13. See The Moon?
  14. The Indian Uprising


    15. from City Life

  15. Views Of My Father Weeping
  16. Paraguay
  17. On Angels
  18. The Phantom Of The Opera's Friend
  19. City Life
  20. Kierkegaard Unfair To Schlegel
  21. The Falling Dog
  22. The Policemen's Ball
  23. The Glass Mountain


    24. from Sadness

  24. Critique de la Vie Quotidienne
  25. The Sandman
  26. Träumerei
  27. The Rise Of Capitalism
  28. A City Of Churches
  29. Daumier
  30. The Party


    31. from Guilty Pleasures

  31. Eugénie Grandet
  32. Nothing: A Preliminary Account


    33. from The Dead Father

  33. A Manual For Sons


    34. from Amateurs

  34. At The End Of The Mechanical Age
  35. Rebecca
  36. The Captured Woman
  37. I Bought A Little City
  38. The Sergeant
  39. The School
  40. The Great Hug
  41. Our Work And Why We Do It


    42. from Great Days

  42. The Crisis
  43. Cortés And Montezuma
  44. The New Music
  45. The Zombies
  46. The King Of Jazz
  47. Morning
  48. The Death Of Edward Lear
  49. The Abduction From The Seraglio
  50. On The Steps Of The Conservatory
  51. The Leap


    52. Previously Uncollected

  52. Aria
  53. The Emerald
  54. How I Write My Songs
  55. The Farewell
  56. The Emperor
  57. Thailand
  58. Heroes
  59. Bishop
  60. Grandmother's House


beginning:

Edward was complaining to Carl about margins. "The width of the margin shows culture, aestheticism and a sense of values or the lack of them," he said. "A very wide left margin shows an impractical person of culture and refinement with a deep appreciation for the best in art and music. Whereas," Edward said, quoting his handwriting analysis book, "whereas, narrow left margins show the opposite. No left margin at all shows a practical nature, a wholesome economy and a general lack of good taste in the arts. A very wide right margin shows a person afraid to face reality, oversensitive to the future, and generally a poor mixer."

"I don't believe in it," Carl said.



photo credit:  Thomas Victor 1981