Children Are Bored on Sunday
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 First edition | |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & Co |
|---|---|
Publication date | 1953 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 252 |
| OCLC | 290015 |
Children Are Bored On Sunday is a collection of short fiction by Jean Stafford published in 1953 by Harcourt, Brace & Co..[1]
- "The Echo and the Nemesis" [originally titled “The Nemisis”] (The New Yorker December 16, 1950)
- "A Country Love Story" (The New Yorker, May 6, 1950)
- "A Summer Day" (The New Yorker, September 4, 1948)
- "The Maiden" (The New Yorker, April 29, 1950)
- “The Home Front” (Partisan Review, Spring 1945)
- "Between the Porch and the Altar" (Harper’s Magazine, June 1945)
- "The Bleeding Heart" (Partisan Review, September 1948)
- "The Interior Castle" (Partisan Review, November–December 1946)
- "A Modest Proposal" [originally titled “Pax Vobiscum”] (The New Yorker, July 23, 1949)
- "Children Are Bored on Sunday" (The New Yorker, February 14, 1948)
Reception
Reviewer William Peden in the New York Times praised the collection as a welcome addition to her three novels, terming the stories “meaningful and complex.”[2]
Literary critic Ihab Hassan in Western Review places the best stories in the volume within the tradition of James Joyce and Anton Chekov:
The intimate glimpse unresolved, the moment of sudden knowledge, the reversal of a situation, the symbolic crisis, the humour of innocence and perversity, find each some deft application in Jean Stafford’s stories.”[3]