John Cheever Books

Franklin Library John Cheever books:
The Wapshot Chronicle - signed limited edition -1978
The Stories of - limited first edition ( not signed ) - 1980
The Stories of - Pulitzer prize classics - 1985

 

 

The Wapshot Chronicle

Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and partly based on Cheever's adolescence in New England, The Wapshot Chronicle is a stirring family narrative in the finest traditions of Trollope, Dickens, and Henry James

The Stories of John Cheever
Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation." From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "The Enormous Radio" to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" and "The Swimmer," John Cheever tells us everything we need to know about "the pain and sweetness of life."

Goodbye, my brother
The common day
The enormous radio
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
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
An educated American woman
Metamorphoses
Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
Montraldo
The ocean
Marito in città
The geometry of love
The swimmer
The world of apples
Another story
Percy
The fourth alarm
Artemis, the honest well digger
Three stories
The jewels of the Cabots