The Stories (and Their Respective Holidays)
- Date Due (No holiday assigned)
- A story hidden in the introduction about a University student who steals books from his University Library.
- "How the Whip Came Back" (Lincoln's Birthday)
- "Of Relays and Roses" (Valentine's Day)
- "Paul's Treehouse" (Arbor Day)
- "St. Brandon" (St. Patrick's Day)
- "Beautyland" (Earth Day)
- "Car Sinister" (Mother's Day)
- "The Blue Mouse" (Armed Forces Day)
- "How I Lost the Second World War" (Memorial Day)
- "The Adopted Father" (Father's Day)
- "Forlesen" (Labor Day)
- "An Article About Hunting" (The first day of hunting season)
- "The Changeling" (Homecoming Day)
- "Many Mansions" (Halloween)
- "Against the Lafayette Escadrille" (Armistice Day)
- "Three Million Square Miles" (Thanksgiving)
- "The War Beneath the Tree" (Christmas Eve)
- "La Befana" (Christmas Day)
- "Melting" (New Year's Eve)
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Read more about this topic: Gene Wolfe's Book Of Days
Famous quotes containing the words stories and/or respective:
“Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.”
—Edmund Burke (17291797)
“You must train the children to their studies in a playful manner, and without any air of constraint, with the further object of discerning more readily the natural bent of their respective characters.”
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