| Title |
Publication |
Collected in
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| "Expelled" |
The New Republic (October 1, 1930) |
Collected Stories and Other Writings
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| "Bock Beer and Bermuda Onions" |
Hound & Horn (April–June 1931) |
Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever
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| "Fall River" |
The Left (Autumn 1931)
|
| "Late Gathering" |
Pagany (October–December 1931)
|
| "Brooklyn Rooming House" |
The New Yorker (March 25, 1935) |
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| "Buffalo" |
The New Yorker (June 22, 1935) |
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|
| "The Autobiography of a Drummer" |
The New Republic (October 23, 1935) |
Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever
|
| "Of Love: A Testimony" |
Story (December 1935) |
The Way Some People Live
|
| "In Passing" |
The Atlantic (March 1936) |
Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever
|
| "Bayonne" |
Parade (Spring 1936)
|
| "Play a March" |
The New Yorker (June 20, 1936) |
Collected Stories and Other Writings
|
| "The Princess" |
The New Republic (October 28, 1936) |
Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever
|
| "A Picture for the Home" |
The New Yorker (November 28, 1936) |
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|
| "Behold a Cloud in the West" |
New Letters in America, no. 1 (1937) |
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|
| "The Brothers" |
The Yale Review (June 1937) |
The Way Some People Live
|
| "Summer Remembered" |
Story (June 1937)
|
| "The Teaser" |
The New Republic (September 8, 1937) |
Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever
|
| "Homage to Shakespeare" |
Story (November 1937) |
Homage to Shakespeare (1968)
|
| "In the Beginning" |
The New Yorker (November 6, 1937) |
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|
| "Frère Jacques" |
The Atlantic (1938) |
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|
| "His Young Wife" |
Collier's (January 1, 1938) |
Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever
|
| "Saratoga" |
Collier's (October 13, 1938)
|
| "Treat" |
The New Yorker (January 21, 1939) |
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|
| "The Happiest Days" |
The New Yorker (November 4, 1939) |
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|
| "It's Hot in Egypt" |
The New Yorker (January 6, 1940) |
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|
| "I'm Going to Asia" |
Harper's Bazaar (February 1940) |
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|
| "North of Portland" |
The New Yorker (February 24, 1940) |
The Way Some People Live
|
| "Survivor" |
The New Yorker (March 9, 1940)
|
| "Washington Boarding House" |
The New Yorker (March 23, 1940)
|
| "Riding Stable" |
The New Yorker (April 27, 1940)
|
| "The Edge of the World" |
Harper's Bazaar (June 1940)
|
| "Happy Birthday, Enid" |
The New Yorker (July 13, 1940)
|
| "Tomorrow Is a Beautiful Day" |
The New Yorker (August 3, 1940)
|
| "The Man She Loved" |
Collier's (August 24, 1940) |
Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever
|
| "Summer Theatre" |
The New Yorker (August 24, 1940) |
The Way Some People Live
|
| "The New World" |
The New Yorker (November 9, 1940)
|
| "Forever Hold Your Peace" |
The New Yorker (November 23, 1940)
|
| "A Present for Louisa" |
Mademoiselle (December 1940) |
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|
| "When Grandmother Goes" |
The New Yorker (December 14, 1940) |
The Way Some People Live
|
| "Cat" |
Harper's Bazaar (January 1941)
|
| "A Bird in the Hand" |
Mademoiselle (February 1941) |
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|
| "Hello, Dear" |
The New Yorker (February 15, 1941) |
The Way Some People Live
|
| "The Law of the Jungle" |
The New Yorker (March 22, 1941)
|
| "A Border Incident" |
Harper's Bazaar (July 1941)
|
| "There They Go" |
The New Yorker (July 19, 1941)
|
| "Run, Sheep, Run" |
The New Yorker (August 2, 1941)
|
| "Publick House" |
The New Yorker (August 16, 1941)
|
| "These Tragic Years" |
The New Yorker (September 27, 1941)
|
| "From This Day Forward" |
Mademoiselle (October 1941) |
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|
| "In the Eyes of God" |
The New Yorker (October 11, 1941) |
The Way Some People Live
|
| "The Pleasures of Solitude" |
The New Yorker (January 24, 1942)
|
| "The Pursuit of Happiness" |
Mademoiselle (February 1942) |
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|
| "A Place of Great Historical Interest" |
The New Yorker (February 21, 1942) |
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|
| "The Peril in the Streets" |
The New Yorker (March 21, 1942) |
The Way Some People Live
|
| "The Shape of a Night" |
The New Yorker (April 18, 1942)
|
| "Goodbye Broadway—Hello, Hello" |
The New Yorker (June 6, 1942)
|
| "Family Dinner" |
Collier's (July 25, 1942) |
Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever
|
| "Problem No. 4" |
The New Yorker (October 17, 1942) |
The Way Some People Live
|
| "The Man Who Was Very Homesick for New York" |
The New Yorker (November 21, 1942)
|
| "The Sorcerer's Balm" |
Read Magazine[39]
|
| "Sergeant Limeburner" |
The New Yorker (March 13, 1943) |
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|
| "They Shall Inherit the Earth" |
The New Yorker (April 10, 1943) |
-
|
| "A Tale of Old Pennsylvania" |
The New Yorker (May 29, 1943) |
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|
| "The Invisible Ship" |
The New Yorker (August 7, 1943) |
-
|
| "My Friends and Neighbors All, Farewell" |
The New Yorker (September 24, 1943) |
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|
| "Dear Lord, We Thank Thee for Thy Bounty" |
The New Yorker (November 27, 1943) |
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|
| "Somebody Has to Die" |
The New Yorker (June 24, 1944) |
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|
| "A Walk in the Park" |
Good Housekeeping (October 1944) |
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|
| "The Single Purpose of Leon Burrows" |
The New Yorker (October 7, 1944) |
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|
| "The Mouth of the Turtle" |
The New Yorker (November 11, 1944) |
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|
| "Town House" |
The New YorkerI: April 18, 1945II: August 11, 1945III: November 10, 1945IV: January 5, 1946V: March 16, 1946VI: May 4, 1946 |
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|
| "Manila" |
The New Yorker (July 28, 1945) |
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|
| "The Sutton Place Story" |
The New Yorker (June 29, 1946) |
The Enormous Radio and Other Stories
|
| "Love in the Islands" |
The New Yorker (December 7, 1946) |
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|
| "The Beautiful Mountains" |
The New Yorker (February 8, 1947) |
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|
| "The Enormous Radio" |
The New Yorker (May 17, 1947) |
The Enormous Radio and Other Stories
|
| "The Common Day" |
The New Yorker (August 2, 1947) |
The Stories of John Cheever
|
| "Roseheath" |
The New Yorker (August 16, 1947) |
Collected Stories and Other Writings
|
| "Torch Song" |
The New Yorker (October 4, 1947) |
The Enormous Radio and Other Stories
|
| "O City of Broken Dreams" |
The New Yorker (January 24, 1948)
|
| "Keep the Ball Rolling" |
The New Yorker (May 29, 1948) |
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|
| "The Summer Farmer" |
The New Yorker (August 7, 1948) |
The Enormous Radio and Other Stories
|
| "The Hartleys" |
The New Yorker (January 22, 1949)
|
| "The Temptations of Emma Boynton" |
The New Yorker (November 26, 1949) |
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|
| "Vega" |
Harper's Magazine (December 1949) |
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|
| "The Opportunity" |
Cosmopolitan (December 1949) |
Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever
|
| "Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor" |
The New Yorker (December 24, 1949) |
The Enormous Radio and Other Stories
|
| "The Season of Divorce" |
The New Yorker (March 4, 1950)
|
| "The Pot of Gold" |
The New Yorker (October 14, 1950)
|
| "The Reasonable Music" |
Harper's Magazine (November 1950) |
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|
| "The People You Meet" |
The New Yorker (December 2, 1950) |
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|
| "Clancy in the Tower of Babel" |
The New Yorker (March 24, 1951) |
The Enormous Radio and Other Stories
|
| "Goodbye, My Brother" |
The New Yorker (August 25, 1951)
|
| "The Children" |
The New Yorker (March 6, 1952)
|
| "The Superintendent" |
The New Yorker (March 29, 1952)
|
| "The Chaste Clarissa" |
The New Yorker (June 14, 1952) |
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
|
| "The Cure" |
The New Yorker (July 3, 1952) |
The Enormous Radio and Other Stories
|
| "O Youth and Beauty!" |
The New Yorker (August 22, 1953) |
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories
|
| "The National Pastime" |
The New Yorker (September 26, 1953) |
Stories (1956) by Jean Stafford, John Cheever, Daniel Fuchs & William Maxwell Collected Stories and Other Writings
|
| "The Sorrows of Gin" |
The New Yorker (December 12, 1953) |
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories
|
| "The True Confessions of Henry Pell" |
Harper's Magazine (June 1954) |
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|
| "Independence Day at St. Botolph's"* |
The New Yorker (July 3, 1954) |
* Excerpt from The Wapshot Chronicle
|
| "The Five-Forty-Eight" |
The New Yorker (August 10, 1954) |
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories
|
| "The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well" |
The New Yorker (October 23, 1954) |
Stories (1956)The Stories of John Cheever
|
| "The Country Husband" |
The New Yorker (November 20, 1954) |
Stories (1956) The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories
|
| "Just Tell Me Who It Was" |
The New Yorker (April 16, 1955) |
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories
|
| "Just One More Time" |
The New Yorker (October 8, 1955) |
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
|
| "The Journal of a Writer With a Hole in One Sock" |
The Reporter (December 29, 1955) |
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|
| "The Bus to St. James's" |
The New Yorker (January 14, 1956) |
Stories (1956) The Stories of John Cheever
|
| "The Journal of an Old Gent"* |
The New Yorker (February 18, 1956) |
* Excerpt from The Wapshot Chronicle
|
| "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" |
The New Yorker (April 4, 1956) |
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories
|
| "How Dr. Wareham Kept His Servants" |
The Reporter (April 5, 1956) |
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|
| "Miss Wapshot"* |
The New Yorker (September 22, 1956) |
* Excerpt from The Wapshot Chronicle
|
| "The Clear Haven"* |
The New Yorker (December 1, 1956)
|
| "The Trouble of Marcie Flint" |
The New Yorker (November 9, 1957) |
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories
|
| "The Worm in the Apple" |
The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories (1958)
|
| "The Bella Lingua" |
The New Yorker (March 1, 1958) |
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
|
| "Paola" |
The New Yorker (July 26, 1958) |
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|
| "The Wrysons" |
The New Yorker (September 15, 1958) |
Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel
|
| "The Duchess" |
The New Yorker (December 13, 1958)
|
| "The Scarlet Moving Van" |
The New Yorker (March 21, 1959)
|
| "The Events of That Easter" |
The New Yorker (May 16, 1959) |
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|
| "Brimmer" |
Esquire (August 1959) |
Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel
|
| "The Golden Age" |
The New Yorker (September 26, 1959)
|
| "The Lowboy" |
The New Yorker (October 10, 1959)
|
| "The Music Teacher" |
The New Yorker (November 21, 1959) |
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
|
| "A Woman Without a Country" |
The New Yorker (December 12, 1959)
|
| "Boy in Rome" |
Esquire (February 1960) |
Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel
|
| "Clementina" |
The New Yorker (May 7, 1960) |
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
|
| "The Death of Justina" |
Esquire (November 1960) |
Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel
|
| "A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear" |
The New Yorker (November 12, 1960)
|
| "The Chimera" |
The New Yorker (July 4, 1961) |
The World of Apples
|
| "The Seaside Houses" |
The New Yorker (July 29, 1961) |
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
|
| "The Angel of the Bridge" |
The New Yorker (October 21, 1961)
|
| "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow" |
The New Yorker (November 11, 1961)
|
| "The Traveller"* |
The New Yorker (December 9, 1961) |
* Excerpt from The Wapshot Scandal
|
| "Christmas Eve at St. Botolph's"* |
The New Yorker (December 23, 1961)
|
| "Reunion" |
The New Yorker (October 27, 1962) |
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
|
| "The Embarkment for Cythera" |
The New Yorker (November 3, 1962) |
* Excerpt from The Wapshot Scandal
|
| "A Vision of the World" |
The New Yorker (November 29, 1962) |
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
|
| "Metamorphoses" |
The New Yorker (March 2, 1963)
|
| "The International Wilderness"* |
The New Yorker (April 6, 1963) |
* Excerpt from The Wapshot Scandal
|
| "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" |
The New Yorker (April 27, 1963) |
The World of Apples
|
| "The Wapshot Scandal"* |
Esquire (July 1963) |
* Excerpt from The Wapshot Scandal
|
| "An Educated American Woman" |
The New Yorker (November 2, 1963) |
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
|
| "The Habit" |
The New Yorker (March 7, 1964) |
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|
| "Montraldo" |
The New Yorker (June 6, 1964) |
The World of Apples
|
| "Marito in Città" |
The New Yorker (July 4, 1964) |
The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
|
| "The Swimmer" |
The New Yorker (July 18, 1964)
|
| "The Ocean" |
The New Yorker (August 1, 1964)
|
| "The Geometry of Love" |
The Saturday Evening Post (January 1, 1966) |
The World of Apples
|
| "The World of Apples" |
Esquire (December 1966)
|
| "Another Story" |
The New Yorker (February 25, 1967) |
The Stories of John Cheever
|
| "Bullet Park"* |
The New Yorker (November 25, 1967) |
* Excerpt from Bullet Park
|
| "The Yellow Room"* |
Playboy (January 1968)
|
| "Playing Fields"* |
Playboy (July 1968)
|
| "Percy" |
The New Yorker (September 1, 1968) |
The World of Apples
|
| "The Fourth Alarm" |
Esquire (April 1970)
|
| "Artemis, the Honest Well-Digger" |
Playboy (January 1972)
|
| "The Jewels of the Cabots" |
Playboy (May 1972)
|
| "Triad" (“Three Stories”) |
Playboy (January 1973)
|
| "The Leaves, the Lion-Fish and the Bear"* |
Esquire (November 1974) |
* Excerpt from Falconer
|
| "The Folding-Chair Set"* |
The New Yorker (October 13, 1975)
|
| "Falconer"* |
Playboy (January 1976)
|
| "President of the Argentine" |
The Atlantic (April 1976) |
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|
| "Falconer"* |
Ladies' Home Journal (July 1977) |
* Excerpt from Falconer
|
| "The Night Mummy Got the Wrong Mink Coat" |
The New Yorker (April 13, 1980) |
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|
| "The Island" |
The New Yorker (April 19, 1981) |
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