Broken necks; containing more "1001 afternoons" / by Ben Hecht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

x pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 9-344 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Pascal Covici Publisher, 1926.

Contents:

Broken necks

The philosopher's benefit

Decay

Mishkin's Idealist

The bomb thrower

A nigger who was hanged

Dog eat dog

The imposter

Fragments

Melancholia preceding seduction

Life

My last park bench

Depths

Rendezvous

Gratitude

The new skyscraper

Nocturne

The psychological phantom

Black umbrellas

The wrong "front"

The yellow goat

Lenin and Wilson talk

The movie maniac

Caricature

The policewoman's daughter

Shanghaied

Jazz

The man with one wife

Infatuation

The unlovely sin.

Notes:

"Copyright 1926 Pascal Covici, Publisher, Inc. Chicago"

"I have never before allowed myself the intimacy of a Preface. I have never felt sufficiently sociable toward readers to address them informally behind the scene. I feel no more sociable now. But Mr. Covici, who already has many sins on his head, cajoles me ... As it is I turn to the thought of the Fifty whose interest in my work I find flattering and charming and offer for their consideration these tales written mainly ten and twelve years ago. They will, I am certain, smile tolerantly upon some of their more obvious faults, remembering that they were the product of the first violences of youth. And it is my hope that I will seem to these readers to have lost none of the exuberance, tactlessness and delight in words which are to be found in these first tales of mine."--Preface.

Brown cloth spine lettered in gilt; patterned paper boards in red, orange, green, black and white outlined in gilt.

OCLC:

1023254