Trial balance: the collected short stories of William March, William March, University of Alabama Press, 1987, , 506 pages. Collects the Alabama writer's short stories, including "The Little Wife," "Mist on the Meadow," "Happy Jack," "Personal Letter," "The Funeral," and "Dirty Emma". DOWNLOAD http://kgarch.org/ILp5uE It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature A Novella and Stories, Diane Williams, Sep 19, 2007, Fiction, 132 pages. This work by Diane Williams delves into the strange relationships of men and women. From marital betrayal to spousal abuse and unrelenting desire, Williams illuminates the .... Flight from Stonewycke , Michael R. Phillips, Judith Pella, 1985, , 256 pages. Volume 2.. 99 Fables , William March, Apr 25, 2011, Fiction, 226 pages. “March has picked up where Aesop and Don Marquis left off, prick- ing vanities and exposing antics of chronic phonies. Here are damning truths about the Noblest Animal .... The Looking-glass , William March, 1943, Authors, American, 346 pages. Devil make a third , Douglas Fields Bailey, 1989, Social Science, 385 pages. A William March Omnibus , William March, 1956, , 397 pages. The Tanager, Volume 23, Issue 4 , , 1948, , . Trial balance , Herbert Cole Coombs, Dec 31, 1981, Biography & Autobiography, 341 pages. The dry well stories, Marlin Barton, May 21, 2001, Fiction, 219 pages. This collection brings together the author's twelve best stories, all set in the same small Southern community in Alabama. The world of these stories covers five generations of .... Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka , William S. Wilson, May 1, 2002, Fiction, 133 pages. Nearly 25 years later, FC2 is proud to reissue this classic collection of short fiction by William S. Wilson that seems even more relevant today.. Tongues of Flame , Mary Ward Brown, Aug 30, 1993, Fiction, 184 pages. These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New .... The Little Wife and Other Stories , William March, 1935, , 313 pages. The Tallons , William March, 1936, , 350 pages. Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? , Cris Mazza, 1998, Fiction, 224 pages. Reviews were plentiful and positive; Roy S. Simmonds lists 31 reviews in his William March: An Annotated Checklist.[1] Among the more notable reviewers are Alistair Cooke, who, in his review of the book in The New Republic, famously claimed that March "is understandably the most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction."[2] Marjorie Farber, in The Kenyon Review, claims to be "greatly under the spell of William March" and states that the collection presents an "astonishing...variety of quiet desperation and low misery and high comedy."[3] March grew up in rural Alabama in a family so poor that he could not finish high school, and did not get a high school equivalency until he was 20. He later studied law, but was again unable to afford finishing his studies. In 1917, while working in a Manhattan law office, he volunteered for the US Marines and saw action in World War I, for which he was decorated with some of the highest honors—the French Croix de Guerre, the American Distinguished Service Cross and the Navy Cross. After the war he again worked in a law office before embarking on a financially successful business career. He also began writing, first short stories, then in 1933 a novel based on his war experiences, Company K. Literary success eluded him. His last novel, The Bad Seed, was published in 1954, the year March died. It became a bestseller, but he never saw his story adapted first for the stage and then for film. Only Company K and The Bad Seed are still in print. William March was born William Edward Campbell, in Florida, where his father worked as a "timber cruiser", his job to estimate which stands of trees were big enough for lumber companies to invest in a saw mill in the area. He was the eldest son of eleven children (two of whom died in infancy), and grew up in and around Mobile, Alabama.[1] His father was an occasional heavy drinker who had a fondness for reciting poetry (especially Edgar Allan Poe's) at the dinner table.[2] His mother, whose maiden name was Susan March, was probably better educated and taught the children to read and write; in the eyes of her family, she had married beneath herself.[3] Neither of them seemed to have supported young March's literary efforts; he later stated he had composed a 10,000 line poem at the age of 12 but had burned the manuscript. Having 8 other siblings, March was afforded no privileges; by the time he was 14 the family moved to Lockhart, Alabama, preventing him from going to high school (Lockhart would later become the imaginary Hodgetown, Pearl County, in March's 1936 novel The Tallons[4]). Instead, March received occasional schooling, probably in one-room edifices then common in sawmill towns.[5] He found employment in the office of a lumber mill.[6] Two years later March had returned to Mobile and found employment in a local law office. By 1913, he had saved enough money to take a high school course at Valparaiso University in Indiana, which allowed him to enroll at the University of Alabama to study law. He thrived as a student but lacked the necessary tuition to complete his law degree. In the fall of 1916, he moved to New York. There he lived in a small boarding house in Brooklyn, finding work as a clerk in the Manhattan law firm of Nevins, Brett and Kellog, and attending plays.[7] On June 5, 1917, March registered for military service, a little over a month after the U.S. entered World War I. He volunteered for the U.S. Marines on July 25, and after completing his training on Parris Island was shipped to France in February 1918.[8] Along with two other future World War I literary figures, John W. Thomason (Fix Bayonets) and Laurence Stallings (What Price Glory?),[citation needed] March embarked on USS Von Steuben at Philadelphia. March reached France in March 1918, serving as a sergeant in Co F, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 4th Brigade of Marines, Second Division of the U.S. Army Expeditionary Force.[9] March's company took part in every major engagement in which American troops were involved, incurring heavy casualties. As a member of the 5th Marines, March saw his first action on the old Verdun battlefield near Les Eparges, and shortly afterwards at Belleau Wood, where he was wounded in the head and shoulder.[10] He returned to the front in time for the offensive at Soissons and the Battle of Saint-Mihiel. March was twice promoted and had attained the rank of sergeant when he was assigned to French troops in the Blanc Mont area, on "statistical duties".[11] During the assault on Blanc Mont, which started on 3 October, March "left a shelter to rescue wounded", and the next day, "during a counterattack, the enemy having advanced to within 300 meters of the first aid station, he immediately entered the engagement and though wounded refused to be evacuated until the Germans were thrown back".[12] As a result of his actions, March received the French Croix de Guerre with Palm and the Army Distinguished Service Cross for valor[11] (the Distinguished Service Cross is the second highest Army decoration, next only to the Medal of Honor). A curious detail emerges from the account of his war experiences that would find its way into his fiction: though it appears he was never gassed badly enough to be hospitalized for it, upon his return from the war he told people that he was and that he only had a short time to live; a number of characters in Company K suffer and die after mustard gas attacks.[13] Roy Simmonds, March's biographer, locates what he calls the "two worlds of William March" (the title of his biography) in this period: throughout his life, March appears to have mixed reality with imagined memory, telling supposedly historical anecdotes that may not have been true. An experience March told a number of times included his jumping into a bomb crater to take shelter and coming face to face with a young German soldier, whom he instantly bayoneted; this anecdote found its way into Company K.[14] During the operations in Blanc Mont region, October 3–4, 1918, he left a shelter to rescue the wounded. On October 5, during a counter-attack, the enemy having advanced to within 300 meters of the first aid station, he immediately entered the engagement and though wounded refused to be evacuated until the Germans were thrown back.[15] The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William E. Campbell, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving with the 43d Company, 5th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F. in action near Blanc Mont, France, October 3–5, 1918. On October 3 and 4, while detailed on statistical work, Sergeant Campbell voluntarily assisted in giving first aid to the wounded. On October 5, when the enemy advanced within 300 yards of the dressing station, he took up a position in the lines, helping in defense. Although twice wounded, he remained in action under heavy fire until the enemy had been repulsed.[16] When the Navy Cross, the United States Navy's second highest award for valor after the Medal of Honor, was established in 1919, March received that award as well (326 Marines who had previously received the Army Distinguished Service Cross in World War I would receive the Navy Cross for the same action).