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Reading for pleasure / chosen with introduction and comment by Bennett Cerf.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--20th century.
- American prose literature.
- English prose literature--20th century.
- English prose literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lee, Ruth Sara (donor) (Lee Collection copy)
- Lee, Charles, 1913- (inscription) (Lee Collection copy)
- Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971 (autograph) (Lee Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 769 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper, [1957]
- Contents:
- The birth of an island / Rachel L. Carson
- In defense of octopuses / Gilbert C. Klingel
- To the south sea islands / Thor Heyerdahl
- The dreadful dragon of Hay Hill / Max Beerbohm
- Channeled whelk / Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benét
- A diversion played on a penny whistle / George Meredith
- Love in wartime / Irwin Shaw
- Faust and Helen / Thomas Wolfe
- Eugene / Aline Bernstein
- Indian summer of a Forsyte / John Galsworthy
- The bar sinister / Richard Harding Davis
- While the automobile ran down / Charles Battell Loomis
- The life and death of vaudeville / Fred Allen
- The climax of the ascent / Maurice Herzog
- Big game hunting in Africa / J.A. Hunter
- Fish are such liars / Roland Pertwee
- You can't do that / John P. Marquand
- Mr. Morgan / James A. Michener
- Mr. Know-All / W. Somerset Maugham
- Vanity / Frank O'Connor
- Revelations / Katherine Mansfield
- Eneas Africanus / Harry Stillwell Edwards
- They griind exceeding small / Ben Ames Williams
- The catbird seat / James Thurber
- Bread alone / John O'Hara
- A table at Ciro's / Budd Schulberg
- Race at morning / William Faulkner
- New Year's Day / Edith Wharton
- The old chevalier / Isak Dinesen
- The coming of Pan / James Stephens
- The sea change / Ernest Hemingway
- Sense of humour / V.S. Pritchett
- Barrow Street / Richard Sherman
- Charlotte's web (selection) / E.B. White
- Adam and Eve and pinch me / A.E. Coppard
- The fifty-first dragon / Heywood Broun
- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote
- What is a boy? ; What is a girl? / Alan Beck
- The Klobber System / Moss Hart
- Apology at bedtime / Harlan Miller
- Let the bridges fall down / Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- The great pancake record / Owen Johnson
- The freshest boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke
- Thus I refute Beelzy / John Collier
- Sredni Vashtar / Saki
- Coroner's inquest / Marc Connelly
- Treasure trove / F. Tennyson Jesse
- The most dangerous game / Richard Connell
- The world the children made / Ray Bradbury
- Dip in the pool / Roald Dahl
- The cream of the joust / T.H. White
- A corner in horses / Stewart Edward White
- Gertrude the governess: or simple seventeen / Stephen Leacock
- The venturers / O. Henry
- The pipe / S.J. Perelman
- The young immigrunts / Ring Lardner
- Pvt. Stockdale vs. classification / Mac Hyman
- The lacy battle flag / William Brinkley
- Auntie Mame and the southern belle / Patrick Dennis
- Crashing the sauna barrier ; Venice à la Hemingway / Art Buchwald
- Gamesmanship (excerpts) / Stephen Potter.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Lee Collection copy has inscription: "To Charles Lee from his friend. Bennett Cerf."
- Penn Libraries Lee Collection copy has dust jacket. Also has obituary laid in from the NY Times August 1971.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971. Reading for pleasure.
- OCLC:
- 964615
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