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Pause to wonder / edited by Marjorie Fischer and Rolfe Humphries.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fischer, Marjorie, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Literature--Collections.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Collections.
- Science fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (autograph, June 1973) (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix, 572 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Sun Dial Press, 1947.
- Contents:
- Introduction: possibility of pleasure
- Reason / Ralph Hodgson
- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf
- The philosophy of relative existence / Frank R. Stockton
- Birth / Liam O'Flaherty
- The curious case of Benjamin Button / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Strong by quirky / Irwin Shapiro
- The man that stopped / Frank O'Connor
- A man and his boots / W.B. Yeats
- Off the ground / Walter De La Mare
- The time of true Thomas / John Buchan
- The haunted man / Ralph Bates
- A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce
- The bowmen / Arthur Machen
- Before the battle at Lake Trasimenus / Livy
- Private Martin Passy / William March
- Ballaf of the buried sword / Ernest Rhys
- The perfect game / G.K. Chesterton
- The Canterville ghost / Oscar Wilde
- The rival beauties / W.W. Jacobs
- The dong with the luminous nose / Edward Lear
- The transferred ghost / Frank R. Stockton
- A beautiful maiden / Charles Erskine Scott Wood
- An imperfect conflagaration / Ambrose Bierce
- The phanton fence rider of Sam Miguel / Henry Yelvington
- Old Christmas / Roy Helton
- The real right thing / Henry James
- The quick and the dead / Finley Peter Dunne
- Lady into fox / David Garnett
- Charley Lambert / J.M. Synge
- The bold dragon / Washington Irving
- The vixen / Wilifrid Wilson Gilbert
- A blazing starre seene in the west / D.H. Lawrence
- Dionysus and the pard / Georffrey Household
- Story og Pygmalion / Ovid
- The casher / John Collier
- King Cheop's daughter / Herodotus
- Nelly trim / Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The story of the siren / E.M. Forster
- The unicorn in the garner / James Thurber
- Moung Shasta / Charles Erskine Scott Wood
- The wisdom of the king / W.B. Yeats
- Oprheus and Eurydice / Vigil
- A true account / Cotton Mather
- The witch of Coos / Robert Frost
- Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven / Mark Twain
- Colonel Sterett relates marvels / Alfred Henry Lewis
- A true story / Lucian
- Macavity: the mystery cat / T.S. Eliot
- Private Roger Jones / William March
- Tall tales of g.i.s / Sergeant Bill Davidson
- The elks / Julius Casear
- Sacre du Printemps / Ludwig Bemelmans
- The elf in Algiers / John Steinback
- Lord deliver us / Donald Cowie
- The voice of God / Winifred Holtby
- The judgement seat / W. Someset Maughan
- The sensitive goldfish / Christina Stead
- Panic / Orson Welles
- The soul of Laploshka / H.H. Munro ("Saki")
- "No trouble at all" / Ludwig Bemelmans
- Welsh incident / Robert Graves
- The angry street: a bad dream / G.K. Chesterton
- Artist unknown / Heywood Broun
- The miracle of St. Scothinus
- The saint / Antonia White
- The silence of God / Osbert Sitwell
- A miracle of St. Goar
- Building the burch / J.M. Synge
- Private Edward Romano / William March
- Blessed Patrick of the bells / Lady Gregory
- How caedmon learned to sing / Bede
- King O'Toole and St. Kevin / Samuel Lover
- The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells
- A shepherd and a shepherdess / Elizabeth Goudge
- The case of Prometheus / Max Beerbohm
- The road of Colonus / E.M. Forster
- Mr. Valiant summoned / John Bunyan
- Philemon and Bauvis / Ovid
- The fairy goose / Liam O'Flaherty
- The passing strange / John Masefield.
- Notes:
- At head of title: Stories of the marvelous, mysterious and strange.
- "Reprint edition."
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy without dustjacket.
- OCLC:
- 1291652
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