Fourteen Stories

New York: Pocket Books Inc. - A Giant Cardinal Edition, 1963. 1963 Giant Cardinal Edition . Mass Market. Very Good. 229 Pages. This is a Giant Cardinal Edition # GC-163 50 cents cover price published May 1963. A book from the Saviteer collection with an ex libris on the front endpaper. No defects noted. A master of the short story as well as the novel, Pearl Buck has contributed stories by the hundreds to leading magazines in America and abroad. Here, just as much as in her novels the author displays her talents of storytelling and of quick characterization. She shows, too, her easy wit, her deft turn of phrase and above all the range interests that has made so very much her own, especially the nature and customs of Asian people, the relationship of East to West, universal family life, and the eternal subtleties of interplay between man and woman. Contents in 14 Short Stories: A Certain Star, The Beauty, Enchantment, With a Delicate Air, Beyond Language, Parable of Plain People, The Commander and the Commissar, Begin to Live, The Engagement, Melissa, Gift of Laughter, Death and the Dawn, The Silver Butterfly, and Francesca.