The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford was published in 1969. Comprised of thirty short stories, separated into four distinct sections, and covering a varied number of subjects, each story is unique and each is prized for its contribution to literature. This collection was the winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The first section is titled The Innocents Abroad. It is made up of six stories, each wonderfully detailed in their depiction of naivety, innocence lost, and the distinctions of class. There is the story of young Maggie Meriwether in Maggie Meriwether's Rich Experience. Maggie is a young woman who has traveled abroad and will experience the hubris of the English upper crust on vacation in the French countryside. The Children's Game and A Modest Proposal are stories of divorcees forced into a.....
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