As a rule, anything that is titled Collected Stories suggests a summing up or a retrospective, a big book that gathers the contents of earlier, slimmer ones. Such volumes tend to be tributes to writers and testaments to their careers rather than displays of new works or directions. And that would certainly appear to be the case with Wright Morris' Collected Stories, 1948-1986. Morris is, after all, one of the most distinguished and honored living American men of letters, author of 19 novels (including Love Among the Cannibals and The World in the Attic), five books of his own photographs and...
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