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Party of twenty; informal essays from Holiday magazine. / Edited and with an introd. by Clifton Fadiman.
LIBRA PR1367 .H6 1963 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Holiday.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English essays--20th century.
- English essays.
- American essays--20th century.
- American essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon and Schuster, 1963.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Clifton Fadiman
- The pleasures of illness / Walter Allen
- The detective story / Jacques Barzun
- On not being liked / Lucius Beebe
- Of novels and novelists / Joyce Cary
- Judges and witnesses / Henry Cecil
- Adventures of a middle-aged novelist / Richard Condon
- Book collecting / Robertson Davies
- Religious revival and delinquent youth / Bergen Evans
- The triumph of rudeness / Romain Gary
- Thinking as a hobby / William Golding
- The oppressed emancipated woman / Eric F. Goldman
- Talking about hexes / Robert Graves
- The fascination of style / F.L. Lucas
- The myth of English literature / Aubrey Menen
- The cherished myths / Yukio Mishima
- Latin classics / Raymond Postgate
- The personality of rooms / V.S. Pritchett
- Such a phrase as drifts through dreams / James Thurber
- The lure of reading / Jerome Weidman.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has red crayon marks on sides and bottom of the textblock.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Holiday. Party of twenty.
- OCLC:
- 1381945
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