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The spirit of man; great stories and experiences of spiritual crisis, inspiration, and the joy of life / by forty famous contemporaries.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burnett, Whit, 1899-1973, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spirit.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sherman, Susan (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 409 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hawthorn Books, [1958]
- Contents:
- God's lonely man / Thomas Wolfe
- An aside on consciousness / Jacquetta Hawkes
- April-May / Jesse Stuart
- The night self / D.H. Lawrence
- Is this what it means to see? / John Howard Griffin
- The young Lincoln / Sherwood Anderson
- The devil's niece : Héloïse / Allan Dowling
- The mystery of Héloïse / Etienne Gilson
- My dearest own / Katherine Mansfield
- Solitude and love / Thomas Merton
- Breaking surface on the Sahara / Philippe Diolé
- On the strenuous mood / William James
- An underground episode / Edmund Ware
- The fifty-first dragon / Heywood Broun
- Raft of despair / Ensio Tiira
- Man in a skyrocket / William Bridgeman, Jacqueline Hazard
- Father Andrea / Pearl Buck
- The journal of a writer with a hole in one sock / John Cheever
- Barren to the stars / Hallie Burnett
- Ship of prisoners / Sidney Stewart
- A corporate activity / C.E.M. Joad
- The Christians-twice-a-year / James W. Hyde
- Consecration : the jungle disciples / Elisabeth Elliott
- The meaning of joy / Paul Tillich
- Defence of leisure / Salvador de Madariaga
- On the shape of wonder / N.J. Berrill
- The mystique of the desert / Joseph Wood Krutch
- The idler and his works / George Santayana
- The reintegration of honor / Gabriel Marcel
- Reverence for life / Albert Schweitzer
- A visit to Morin / Graham Greene
- Reluctant convert / C.S. Lewis
- Spirit / Edmund W. Sinnott
- The mystery / W. Somerset Maugham
- The sense of worship / Victor Gollancz
- My religion / Helen Keller
- Personal survival : do we live after death? / Anthony Standen
- The known and the unknown / J. Krishnamurti
- The miracle within us / Jean Hellé.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket (spine partially torn) retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by Susan Sherman on front pastedown.
- ISBN:
- 0836900367
- 9780836900361
- OCLC:
- 977722
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