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The league of frightened Philistines, and other papers / by James T. Farrell.
Van Pelt Library PS3511.A738 A16 1945
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- Books--Reviews.
- Books.
- Genre:
- Reviews.
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Henle, Marjorie (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Henle, James (donor) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Farrell, James T. (James Thomas) 1904-1979 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 210 pages ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : Manufactured in the U. S. A. by H. Wolff.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Vanguard Press, [1945]
- Contents:
- he league of frightened Philistines
- Revaluations: Dreiser's Sister Carrie
- Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises
- Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
- Ring Lardner's Roundup
- Dostoievsky's The brothers Karamazov
- Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man
- On the letters of Anton Chekhov
- Nonsense and the short story
- How Studs Lonigan was written
- Literature and ideology
- The faith of Lewis Mumford
- Mortimer J. Sadler: a provincial Torquemada
- The short story
- Thirty and under
- In search of the image
- Letter to a young writer
- The language of Hollywood
- More on Hollywood.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- Title printed within single-ruled border.
- "This book has been produced in full compliance with all government regulations for the conservation of paper, metal, and other essential materials."
- "The papers and essays appearing in this volume were selected from a heterogeneous collection of my critical and non-fictional writing of the past fifteen years. Thus it will be obvious to the reader that they were not written as integrated parts of a book, and that presenting them in book form I make no effort to impose any formal or artificial unity upon them."--Preface.
- Top edge stained red.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "To Marjorie and Jim. Affectionately. Jim Farrell. July 27 '45".
- OCLC:
- 284032
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