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A world of great stories / edited by Hiram Haydn and John Cournos [and] Board of Editors.
LIBRA PZ1.H36 Wo
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haydn, Hiram, 1907-1973, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 950 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Publishers, [1947]
- Contents:
- American and British Section
- Romance Language Section
- Germanic and Scandinavian Section
- Russian and East European Section
- Oriental Section
- Latin American Section.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "Copyright, 1947, by Crown Publishers.
- "Designed by Robert Josephy."
- "The scope of this anthology is at once so large and so selective that some explanation of its editors' working procedure is needed. In the first place, by making an honest attempt to chose at least one first-rate story from every country in the world with any appreciable literature, we have inevitably been forced to omissions we regret. An anthology of great stories of the twentieth century world will, by its very nature, fail to do justice to some significant writers."--Foreword.
- Title stamped in blind on front cover and lettered in orange within silver panel on spine.
- OCLC:
- 296846
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