1994 by the University Press of Colorado
Published by the University Press of Colorado, P.O. Box 849, Niwot, Colorado 80544
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| Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data |
Real life: ten stories of aging / Patrick McKee and Jon Thiem, editors
p. cm.
ISBN 0-87081-354-4ISBN 0-87081-355-2 (pbk.)
1. AgingFiction. I. McKee, Patrick L. II. Thiem, Jon.
PN6120.95.A48R431994
809.3' 108354dc20
94-36593
CIP |
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.
ANSI Z39.48-1984 |
| "A Worn Path" from A Curtain of Green and Other Stories. copyright 1941 and renewed 1969 by Eudora Welty. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company. |
| "The Horsebreaker" from Up Where I Used to Live by Max Schott, copyright by the University of Illinois Press. 1978. Reprinted by permission of Max Schott and the publisher. |
| "The Unseemly Old Lady" from Short Stories by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Yvonne Kapp. Published by Methuen London Ltd.. 1983. Reprinted by permission of Reed International Books. |
| "Rothschild's Fiddle" from Russian Silhouettes by Anton Chekhov, translated by Marian Fell. Copyright renewed 1943 by Olivia Fell Vans Agnew. Reprinted by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Company. |
| "The Old Demon" from Today and Forever by Pearl S. Buck, published by John Day Publishers in 1941. Copyright 1939, 1966, by Pearl S. Buck. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Incorporated. |
| "The Road from Colonus" from The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster by E. M. Forster. Published by Alfred A. Knopf. Inc., in 1947. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. |
| "Come Lady Death" from The Fantasy World of Peter S. Beagle by Peter S. Beagle, copyright 1978 by Peter S. Beagle. Reprinted by permission of Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc. |
| "An Old Man" from Selected Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Roger Colet, published by Penguin Classics in 1971. Copyright Roger Colet 1971. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. |
| "I Want to Live" from I Want to Live by Vasily Shukshin, translated by Robert Daglish. Published by Progress Publishers in 1973. |
| "The Revolt of 'Mother'" from A New England Nun and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 1919. |
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