 55 Short Stories from the New Yorker

55 Short Stories from the New Yorker is a literary anthology of short fiction first published in "The New Yorker" magazine from the years 1940 through 1949.Although the magazine debuted in February 1925 (so that its 25th anniversary was in 1950), this 1949 book's subtitle reads, "A twenty-fifth anniversary volume of stories that have appeared in the magazine during the last decade."