Bennett Cerf's Take Along Treasury

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The duchess and the smugs / Pamela Frankau -- The man in the toolhouse / Harvey Swados -- The proverb / Marcel Aymé -- The great gesture / Isak Dinesen -- Sir Hercules / Aldous Huxley -- Paris! Paris! / Irwin Shaw -- The ghost train / Lawrence Durrell -- The tree / Dylan Thomas -- The listener / John Berry -- The wild goat's kid / Liam O'Flaherty -- The end of the line / Gavin Lambert -- My mortal enemy / Willa Cather -- The weeping children / Frank O'Connor -- House of flowers / Truman Capote -- The bus to St. James's / John Cheever -- Goodbye and good luck / Grace Paley -- The bravest boat / Malcolm Lowry -- Aimée Dubucq de Rivery: message from a ghost / Lesley Blanch -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Operation heartbreak / Duff Cooper -- The salt of the earth / Rebecca West -- The gentleman from Paris / John Dickson Carr -- Confidence trick / John Wyndham -- The birds / Daphne du Maurier -- The specialty of the house / Stanley Ellin -- The end of the party / Graham Greene -- [The way up to heaven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504268W) / Roald Dahl -- The girl from California / John O'Hara -- Dumb kid / Jerome Weidman -- A & P / John Updike -- My grandmother and the dirty English / Aubrey Menen -- Evelyn Waugh runs a fair / Edward R.F. Sheehan -- No legs, no jokes, no chance / Helene Hanff -- Get your grandfather off the track / Ralph Schoenstein -- How to talk to a man / Jean Kerr -- Hell Creek Crossing / William Faulkner.