A Vintage Classics Original, December 1992

Publisher’s Note and Compilation copyright © 1992 by Random House, Inc.
Copyright © 1920, 1925, 1930, 1932 by Willa Cather
Copyright © 1948 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Copyright © 1956 by Edith Lewis and The City Bank Farmer’s Trust Co.
Copyright renewed 1948, 1953, 1958, 1959 by Edith Lewis and The City Bank Farmer’s Trust Co.
Copyright renewed 1976 by Charles E. Cather
Excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather copyright © 2013 by The Willa Cather Literary Trust.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cather, Willa, 1873–1947.
 [Short stories]
Collected stories / Willa Cather.
p. cm.—(Vintage classics)
eISBN: 978-0-307-83169-9
I. Title. II. Series.
PS3505.A87A6    1992
813’.52—dc20       92-50061

The stories in this work were originally published in the following collections:
The Troll Garden, Youth and the Bright Medusa, Obscure Destinies,
The Old Beauty and Others, and Five Stories.
“Tom Outland’s Story” was previously published as
Book Two of The Professor’s House.

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