Beyond the Red pony : a reader's companion to Steinbeck's complete short stories

Introduction & stories from the 1920s -- Fingers of cloud (1924) -- Adventures in Arcademy (1924) -- Unpublished stories (1924-26) : introduction -- East Third Street -- Untitled Christmas story -- The white sister of Fourteenth Street -- The nymph and Isobel -- The days of long marsh -- The nail -- The gifts of Iban (1927) -- The pastures of heaven (1932) -- Shark wicks -- Tularecito -- Helen Van Deventer -- Junius Matby -- The Lopez sisters -- Molly Morgan -- Raymond Banks -- Pat Humbert -- The Whitesides -- The long valley (1938) and other short fiction of the 1930s -- The chrysanthemums (1937) -- The white quail (1935) -- Flight (1938) -- The snake 1935) -- Breakfast (1936) -- The raid (1934) -- The harness (1938) -- The vigilante (1936) and unpublished case history (ca. 1934) -- Johnny Bear (1937) -- The murder (1934) -- Saint Katy the virgin (1936) -- The red pony stories : introduction -- The gift (1933) -- The great mountains (1933) -- The promise (1937) -- The leader of the people (1936) -- Intercalary chapters in The grapes of wrath (1939) -- Uncollected stories of the 1940s and 1950s -- How Edith McGillicuddy met R. L. Stevenson (1941) -- Wartime stories, 1943 : Once there was a war (1958) -- The time the wolves ate the vice-principal (1947) -- The Josh Billings story : Cannery row (1945) -- Miracle of Tepayac (1948) -- His father (1949) -- The great rogue war & The Pacific Grove butterfly festival : Sweet Thursday (1954) -- The affair at 7, Rue de M-- (1955) -- The summer before (1955) -- The short-story of mankind or We’re holding our own (1955) -- How Mr. Hogan robbed a bank (1956) -- Case of the hotel ghost : or … What are you smoking in that pipe, Mr. S.? (or Reunion at the quiet hotel) (1957) -- Conclusion -- Chapter notes -- Selected bibliography -- Name index -- Topical index.