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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories is the first collection of 26 short stories by William Saroyan published in 1934 (Random House). The author was recognized as a "the most widely discussed discovery of 1934" and the book became an immediate bestseller.




The title story


The title was inspired by the refrain of a popular folk song The Flying Trapeze:

He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease,
That daring young man on the flying trapeze.
The story first appeared in the February issue of the Story magazine. It won the third prize of the O. Henry Award for the best short story of the year.




Contents


The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
Seventy Thousand Assyrians
Among the Lost
Myself upon the Earth
Love, Death, Sacrifice and So Forth
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
And Man
A Curved Line
Snake
Big Valley Vineyard
Aspirin Is a Member of the N.R.A.
Seventeen
A Cold Day
The Earth, Day, Night, Self
Harry
Laughter
The Big Tree Coming
Dear Greta Garbo
The Man with the French Post Cards
Three Stories
Love
War
Sleep in Unheavenly peace
Fight Your Own War
Common Prayer
The Shepherd's Daughter




References






External links


The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories in the Open Library.
De Oliveira, Willy Torresin. William Saroyan's Hero in The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze. Curitiba: 1994. — 187 p.

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