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A quarto of modern literature / edited by Leonard Brown and Porter G. Perrin.
LIBRA Special PR1149 .B7 1950
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Leonard (Leonard Stanley), editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century.
- American literature.
- English literature--20th century.
- English literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 631 pages
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, [1950]
- Contents:
- Fiction. The apple tree, by John Galsworthy
- The lagoon, by Joseph Conrad
- The blue hotel, by Stephen Crane
- Neighbour Rosicky, by Willa Cather
- Counterparts, by James Joyce
- Death in the woods, by Sherwood Anderson
- The rich boy, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The short happy life of Francis Macomber, by Ernest Hemingway
- Delta autumn, by William Faulkner
- Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
- Jacob and the Indians, by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The lost boy, by Thomas Wolfe
- The red pony (I), by John Steinbeck
- The pomegranate trees, by William Saroyan
- The lottery, by Shirley Jackson
- Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton.
- The novel. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
- The great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- Biography and history. The shame of Minneapolis, by Lincoln Steffens
- My life and hard times, by James Thurber
- Shore whaler, by Berton Roueche
- The young man Washington, by Samuel Eliot Morison
- R.M.S. Titanic, by Hanson W. Baldwin
- How to accomplish "the impossible", by Douglas S. Freeman.
- Drama. Loyalties, by John Galsworthy
- The emperor Jones, by Eugene O'Neill
- The silver cord, by Sidney Howard
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois, by Robert Sherwood
- The madwoman of Chaillot, by Jean Giraudoux
- Death of a salesman, by Arthur Miller.
- Poetry. New Year's Eve ; The oxen ; The darkling thrush ; In time of "the breaking of nations" ; The convergence of the twain, by Thomas Hardy
- Is my team plowing ; Could man be drunk for ever ; When I was one-and-twenty ; The chestnut casts his flambeaux ; Epilogue, by A.E. Housman
- Miniver Cheevy ; Mrs. Flood's party ; Luke Havergal; The man against the sky, by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- On growing old, by John Masefield
- The listeners, by Walter de la Mare
- The tuft of flowers ; Mending wall ; Two tramps in mud time ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Acquainted with the night ; The death of the hired man, by Robert Frost
- Anne Rutledge ; Daisy Fraser ; Fiddler Jones ; Lucinda Matlock, by Edgar Lee Masters
- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight ; John Brown ; The Chinese nightingale, by Vachel Lindsay
- Four preludes on playthings of the wind ; Cool tombs ; Haze ; The people will live on, by Carl Sandburg
- Pity me not ; What lips my lips have kissed ; Oh, my beloved, have you thought of this, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Canto I ; The river-merchant's wife: a letter, by Ezra Pound
- Apologia pro poemate meo ; Dulce et decorum est, by Wilfred Owen
- We are transmitters ; Snake ; Bavarian gentians, by D.H. Lawrence
- The wild swans at coole ; The lamentation of the old pensioner ; Leda and the swan ; A prayer for my daughter ; Sailing to Byzantium, by William Butler Yeats
- God's grandeur ; The windhover ; Felix Randal, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Morningsong of Senlin ; Samadhi, by Conrad Aiken
- Animula ; The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; The hollow men ; Gerontion ; Difficulties of a statesman, by T.S. Eliot
- O sweet spontaneous earth ; The hours rise up putting off stars ; Anyone lived in a pretty how town, by e.e. cummings
- Hurt hawks ; The bloody sire ; The purse-seine ; Shine, perishing republic, by Robinson Jeffers
- Gulls ; Tract, by William Carlos Williams
- The paltry nude starts on a spring voyage ; Anatomy of monotony ; Peter Quince at the clavier, by Wallace Stevens
- The river (from The bridge) ; At Melville's tomb ; The air plant ; The broken tower, by Hart Crane
- Ars poetica ; Memorial rain ; Landscape as a nude ; You, Andrew Marvell, by Archibald Macleish
- Ode to the Confederate dead, by Allen Tate
- Portrait ; Travelogue in a shooting-gallery ; American rhapsody (4) ; Requiem, by Kenneth Fearing
- Musée des Beaux Arts ; In memory of W.B. Yeats ; Casino ; Law like love ; The unknown citizen, by W.H. Auden
- Oh young men oh young comrades ; The express ; I think continually of those who were truly great ; Ultima ratio regum ; Not palaces, an era's crown, by Stephen Spender
- August is nearly over ; Now we are back to normal, by Louis MacNeice
- The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ; Among those killed in the dawn raid was a man aged one hundred ; In my craft or sullen art ; Poem in October ; Fern Hill, by Dylan Thomas.
- Factual prose. The chain of jungle life, by William Beebe
- Click, click ; The dint of pity ; Affectionate friend ; City rhythms, from The Talk of the Town
- Young writer remembering Chicago, by Albert Halper
- Death waits for my Uncle Yanez, by Louis Adamic
- The hallmarks of American, by H.L. Mencken
- What is evidence?, by Edmund Pearson
- The monastery and the clock, by Lewis Mumford
- The luxury of integrity, by Stuart Chase
- Pupils into students, by Jacques Barzun
- The door, by E.B. White
- Fear, by Alan Paton
- Free speech today, by Zechariah Chafee, Jr.
- Machinery, magic, and art, by Thomas King Whipple
- Pure and impure poetry, by Robert Penn Warren
- The new way of writing, by Bonamy Dobree
- On realism ; On crudity, by Sherwood Anderson
- A preface to dogs, by James Thurber
- Comfort, by Aldous Huxley
- Science and religion, by Julian Huxley
- Climates of opinion, by Carl L. Becker
- The criticism of morality, by DeWitt H. Parker
- I believe, by E.M. Forster.
- OCLC:
- 252311
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