Thirty-six stories, selected from more than 400 written in his lifetime, about small-town life, the broken dreams of people in the '30s and '40s, and the social status and class differences of America. 'This is fiction, but it has for me, the clang of truth,' John Updike.
![The Benefactress by [von Arnim, Elizabeth]](/images/books/cover/51651_2022420142911_the_benefactress.jpg "The Benefactress by [von Arnim, Elizabeth]")
