This collection includes stories that William March wrote from the 20’s-40’s. William March is most known for The Bad Seed, the classic novel that really started the evil child genre. He didn’t get to see how successful it would be becoming a play and an Oscar-nominated movie. He died the same year it was published. I was happy to find that he’s great at short stories as well. The best story in this collection is easily the comic Woolen Drawers about a promiscuous woman who wears woolen drawers, instead of fancy petticoats one day. She is too embarrassed to sleep with her date. Her date mistakes her for being a prudish woman and falls for this image. Gradually the woman changes as well. I also like George and Charlie about an ordinary man who is changed by a radical, philosophical thinker. A Shop in St. Louis is about a girl who doesn’t put family as a priority, saving money for a business elsewhere. She comes to regret her financial decisions. Miss Daisy is another story worth reading. It’s about a boy who meets a phony old woman. This is out of print but wasn’t hard to find.
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