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The short story.
LIBRA - Special PN3373 .O37 1948
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Faoláin, Seán, 1900-1991.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short story.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Herz, Stefanie (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Collins, 1948.
- Contents:
- On keeping the lines clear
- Alphonse Daudet, or the interrupted romantic
- Anton Chekov, or the persistent moralist
- Guy de Maupassant, or the relentless realist
- On convention
- On subject
- On construction
- On language
- Father Gaucher's elixir / Alphonse Daudet
- Gooseberries / Anton Chekov
- Hautot, father and son / Guy de Maupassant
- The Sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson
- The real thing / Henry James
- In the train / Frank O'Connor
- Her table spread / Elizabeth Bowen
- The light of the world / Ernest Hemingway.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by Stefanie Herz, dated 1949.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has stamp: "York House North Tenants Association".
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has newspaper clipping laid in: "The Writer's Duty" by Harold Nicolson.
- OCLC:
- 512499
- Publisher Number:
- D00212309X
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