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105 greatest living authors present the world's best stories : humor, drama, biography, history, essays, poetry /

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Dial Press, 1950.Description: xxv, 1186 pOther title:
  • world's best stories
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN6014 .O544
  • PN6014 .B8
Contents:
Foreword by Whit Burnett. I. The Americas: UNITED STATES : The Hunted: Act Four (drama) / Eugene O?Neill -- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story) / Ernest Hemingway -- An Assemblage of Husbands and Wives (novel units) / Sinclair Lewis -- Six New England Poems (poetry) [The need to be versed in country things; The mountain; The road not taken; The grindstone; The gift outright; One step backward taken} / Robert Frost -- Easter Sunday: Sea of Cortez (essay) / John Steinbeck -- Abraham Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg (biography) / Carl Sandburg -- Twelve Sonnets (poetry) [On hearing a symphony of Beethoven; The second of two sonnets in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti] / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- From a Journal-Letter of Julius Caesar (novel unit) / Thornton Wilder -- The Unity of the Human Being (philosophy) / John Dewey -- Art and Isadora (biography) / John dos Passos -- Fighting Angel (biography) / Pearl Buck -- Edwin Arlington Robinson (criticism) / Van Wyck Brooks -- The Poetry of Christianity (essay) / H. L. Mencken -- Sunday Morning at the Compsons (novel unit) / William Faulkner -- A Faith in the Theater (essay) / Maxwell Anderson -- Five from Spoon River / (poetry) [Fiddler Jones; Lucinda Matlock; Emily Sparks; Howard Lamson; Cleanthus Trilling} / Edgar Lee Masters -- Poems (poetry) [Epistle to be left in the Earth; The cat in the wood; Years of the dog; Poem in prose; You, Andrew Marvell; The flesh that once sang] /Archibald MacLeish -- The Hog Squeal of the Universe (novel unit) / Upton Sinclair -- The Titans Meet at Teheran (history) / Robert Sherwood -- Death be Not Proud: The Graduation (biography) / John Gunther -- Four Poems / (poetry) [Fire and glass; Where all is glacier; Wound in secret] / William Rose Benet -- Franklin and French Ladies (biography) / Carl Van Doren -- Yellow Girl (short story) / Erskine Caldwell -- Three poems (poetry) [Life from the lifeless; Cassandra; Their beauty has more meaning] / Robinson Jeffers -- More Alarms at Night (short story) / James Thurber -- A Drop in the Bucket (short story) / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Is of Southern Ladies (biography) / James Branch Cabell -- Yoicks ? and Away (novel unit) / John P. Marquand -- Moment of Judgment (novel unit) / John Hersey -- American Hunger (autobiography) / Richard Wright -- Valediction to Churchill (essay) / Vincent Sheean -- The Prisoners of Nuremberg (history) / William L. Shirer. CANADA : Death of a Centenarian (novel unit) / Mazo de la Roche -- Rigmarole short story) / Morley Callaghan. MEXICO : The Under Dogs (novel units) / Mariano Azuela. SOUTH AMERICA : Three Poems [first English translations] (poetry) [Intimate; The footprint; Poem of the son] / Gabriela Mistral -- Summits of Macchu Picchu [first English translations] (poetry) / Pablo Neruda -- Pillars of Society (novel unit) / Eduardo Mallea.
II. The British Isles: ENGLAND : Burnt Norton (poetry) / T. S. Eliot -- The Tillotson Banquet (short story) / Aldous Huxley -- Truth, Beauty and Goodness (autobiography) / W. Somerset Maugham -- Three Poems (poetry) [The rider at the gate; Sea fever; On growing old] / John Masefield -- The Trial (novel unit) / E. M. Forster -- Education (essay) / Bertrand Russell -- Two Poems (poetry) [Dreams; Fare well] / Walter de la Mare -- The Duchess Dresses for Dinner (novel unit) / Vita Sackville-West -- Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (poetry) / Hilaire Belloc -- The Massacre of the Innocents (poetry) / W. H. Auden -- The Uniqueness of Man (essay) / Julian Huxley -- Five Poems (poetry) [Still falls the rain; Heart and mind; The bee oracles; The coat of fire; The canticle of the rose] / Edith Sitwell -- Hands Across the Sea (drama) / Noel Coward -- The Weald of Youth (autobiography) / Siegfried Sassoon -- The Grand Canyon (essay) / J. B. Priestley -- Dunkirk: The Miracle of the Evacuation (history) / Winston Churchill -- The Meaning of Treason (essay) / Rebecca West -- Decadence (philosophy) / C. E. M. Joad -- The Hint of an Explanation (short story) / Graham Greene -- Civilization on Trial (essay) / Arnold J. Toynbee. SCOTLAND : Birth (novel unit) / A. J. Cronin. IRELAND : Business in Ireland (essay) / Lord Dunsany -- The Plough and the Stars (drama) / Sean O?Casey -- Five Poems (poetry) [What the shuiler said as she lay by the fire in the farmer?s house; Scanderbeg; Folding hour; I shall not die for thee; The seer] / Padraic Colum -- The Easter Egg Party (short story) / Elizabeth Bowen -- The Challenge (short story) / Liam O?Flaherty.
III. Europe: FRANCE : Fruits of the Earth and New Fruits (essay) / Andre Gide -- On the College Roof (novel unit) / Jules Romains -- The Kingdom of God (autobiography), and The Essential Problems (novel unit) / Andre Malraux -- Art and Beauty (essay) / Jacques Maritain -- Therese and the Doctor (novel unit) / Francois Mauriac -- Proust and Laughter (essay) / Jean Cocteau -- The East I Know: Here and There (essay) / Paul Claudel -- The Art of Prose (criticism) / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The Snows (poetry) / St. John Perse -- Sentence of Death (novel unit) / Albert Camus -- Reading and Writing (autobiography) / Colette -- Poems in Wartime (poetry) [The lilacs and the roses; Song for a barrel organ; Night at Dunkerque; Christmas roses] / Louis Aragon. GERMANY : The Masters of Buddenbrooks (novel unit) / Thomas Mann -- Darkness in Paris (novel unit) / Erich Remarque -- Out of My Life and Thought (autobiography) / Albert Schweitzer -- Science and Life (essays) / Albert Einstein. SWITZERLAND : Within and Without [first English translation] (short story) / Hermann Hesse. NORWAY : The Loss and the Healing (novel unit) / Sigrid Undset -- The Wonderful New Machine (novel unit) / Knut Hamsun. DENMARK : The Pearls (short story) / Isak Dinesen -- Columbus in the Trade Wind (novel unit) / Johannes V. Jensen. FINLAND : The Night of the Harvest Festival (novel unit) / Frans Eemil Sillanpaa. ICELAND : An Icelandic Pioneer (novel unit) / Halldor Laxness. ITALY : Soliloquy of an Old Philosopher (essay) / Benedetto Croce -- The Seed Beneath the Snow [first English translation] (novel unit) / Ignazio Silone. SPAIN : Normal Madness (essay) /George Santayana -- The Coming of the Masses (essay) / Jose Ortega y Gasset -- Dedicated to Women (essay) / Salvador de Madariaga -- Youth and Egolatry (autobiography) / Pio Baraja. HOLLAND : Uncle Kees Protests (biography) / Pierre van Paassen. GREECE : Two poems (poetry) [March of the spirit; The sacred way] / Angelos Sikelianos. HUNGARY: Apage Satanas (novel unit) / Arthur Koestler -- Liliom?s Return (drama) / Ferenc Molnar. RUSSIA: The Gentleman from San Francisco (short story) / Ivan Bunn -? Civil War (novel unit) / Mikhail Sholokhov -- The Storm (novel units) / Ilya Ehrenburg.
IV. Asia : CHINA: The End of Living Is Living Itself (essay) / Lin Yutang -- The Civilizations of the East and West (essay) / Hu Shih. INDIA: Time in Prison (autobiography) / Jawaharlal Nehru -- The Life Divine: The Present Evolutionary Crisis (essay) / Sri Aurobindo.

Cover title: The world's best.

Includes index.

"Biographies and bibliographies": p. 1109-1159.

Foreword by Whit Burnett. I. The Americas: UNITED STATES : The Hunted: Act Four (drama) / Eugene O?Neill -- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story) / Ernest Hemingway -- An Assemblage of Husbands and Wives (novel units) / Sinclair Lewis -- Six New England Poems (poetry) [The need to be versed in country things; The mountain; The road not taken; The grindstone; The gift outright; One step backward taken} / Robert Frost -- Easter Sunday: Sea of Cortez (essay) / John Steinbeck -- Abraham Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg (biography) / Carl Sandburg -- Twelve Sonnets (poetry) [On hearing a symphony of Beethoven; The second of two sonnets in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti] / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- From a Journal-Letter of Julius Caesar (novel unit) / Thornton Wilder -- The Unity of the Human Being (philosophy) / John Dewey -- Art and Isadora (biography) / John dos Passos -- Fighting Angel (biography) / Pearl Buck -- Edwin Arlington Robinson (criticism) / Van Wyck Brooks -- The Poetry of Christianity (essay) / H. L. Mencken -- Sunday Morning at the Compsons (novel unit) / William Faulkner -- A Faith in the Theater (essay) / Maxwell Anderson -- Five from Spoon River / (poetry) [Fiddler Jones; Lucinda Matlock; Emily Sparks; Howard Lamson; Cleanthus Trilling} / Edgar Lee Masters -- Poems (poetry) [Epistle to be left in the Earth; The cat in the wood; Years of the dog; Poem in prose; You, Andrew Marvell; The flesh that once sang] /Archibald MacLeish -- The Hog Squeal of the Universe (novel unit) / Upton Sinclair -- The Titans Meet at Teheran (history) / Robert Sherwood -- Death be Not Proud: The Graduation (biography) / John Gunther -- Four Poems / (poetry) [Fire and glass; Where all is glacier; Wound in secret] / William Rose Benet -- Franklin and French Ladies (biography) / Carl Van Doren -- Yellow Girl (short story) / Erskine Caldwell -- Three poems (poetry) [Life from the lifeless; Cassandra; Their beauty has more meaning] / Robinson Jeffers -- More Alarms at Night (short story) / James Thurber -- A Drop in the Bucket (short story) / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Is of Southern Ladies (biography) / James Branch Cabell -- Yoicks ? and Away (novel unit) / John P. Marquand -- Moment of Judgment (novel unit) / John Hersey -- American Hunger (autobiography) / Richard Wright -- Valediction to Churchill (essay) / Vincent Sheean -- The Prisoners of Nuremberg (history) / William L. Shirer. CANADA : Death of a Centenarian (novel unit) / Mazo de la Roche -- Rigmarole short story) / Morley Callaghan. MEXICO : The Under Dogs (novel units) / Mariano Azuela. SOUTH AMERICA : Three Poems [first English translations] (poetry) [Intimate; The footprint; Poem of the son] / Gabriela Mistral -- Summits of Macchu Picchu [first English translations] (poetry) / Pablo Neruda -- Pillars of Society (novel unit) / Eduardo Mallea.

II. The British Isles: ENGLAND : Burnt Norton (poetry) / T. S. Eliot -- The Tillotson Banquet (short story) / Aldous Huxley -- Truth, Beauty and Goodness (autobiography) / W. Somerset Maugham -- Three Poems (poetry) [The rider at the gate; Sea fever; On growing old] / John Masefield -- The Trial (novel unit) / E. M. Forster -- Education (essay) / Bertrand Russell -- Two Poems (poetry) [Dreams; Fare well] / Walter de la Mare -- The Duchess Dresses for Dinner (novel unit) / Vita Sackville-West -- Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (poetry) / Hilaire Belloc -- The Massacre of the Innocents (poetry) / W. H. Auden -- The Uniqueness of Man (essay) / Julian Huxley -- Five Poems (poetry) [Still falls the rain; Heart and mind; The bee oracles; The coat of fire; The canticle of the rose] / Edith Sitwell -- Hands Across the Sea (drama) / Noel Coward -- The Weald of Youth (autobiography) / Siegfried Sassoon -- The Grand Canyon (essay) / J. B. Priestley -- Dunkirk: The Miracle of the Evacuation (history) / Winston Churchill -- The Meaning of Treason (essay) / Rebecca West -- Decadence (philosophy) / C. E. M. Joad -- The Hint of an Explanation (short story) / Graham Greene -- Civilization on Trial (essay) / Arnold J. Toynbee. SCOTLAND : Birth (novel unit) / A. J. Cronin. IRELAND : Business in Ireland (essay) / Lord Dunsany -- The Plough and the Stars (drama) / Sean O?Casey -- Five Poems (poetry) [What the shuiler said as she lay by the fire in the farmer?s house; Scanderbeg; Folding hour; I shall not die for thee; The seer] / Padraic Colum -- The Easter Egg Party (short story) / Elizabeth Bowen -- The Challenge (short story) / Liam O?Flaherty.

III. Europe: FRANCE : Fruits of the Earth and New Fruits (essay) / Andre Gide -- On the College Roof (novel unit) / Jules Romains -- The Kingdom of God (autobiography), and The Essential Problems (novel unit) / Andre Malraux -- Art and Beauty (essay) / Jacques Maritain -- Therese and the Doctor (novel unit) / Francois Mauriac -- Proust and Laughter (essay) / Jean Cocteau -- The East I Know: Here and There (essay) / Paul Claudel -- The Art of Prose (criticism) / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The Snows (poetry) / St. John Perse -- Sentence of Death (novel unit) / Albert Camus -- Reading and Writing (autobiography) / Colette -- Poems in Wartime (poetry) [The lilacs and the roses; Song for a barrel organ; Night at Dunkerque; Christmas roses] / Louis Aragon. GERMANY : The Masters of Buddenbrooks (novel unit) / Thomas Mann -- Darkness in Paris (novel unit) / Erich Remarque -- Out of My Life and Thought (autobiography) / Albert Schweitzer -- Science and Life (essays) / Albert Einstein. SWITZERLAND : Within and Without [first English translation] (short story) / Hermann Hesse. NORWAY : The Loss and the Healing (novel unit) / Sigrid Undset -- The Wonderful New Machine (novel unit) / Knut Hamsun. DENMARK : The Pearls (short story) / Isak Dinesen -- Columbus in the Trade Wind (novel unit) / Johannes V. Jensen. FINLAND : The Night of the Harvest Festival (novel unit) / Frans Eemil Sillanpaa. ICELAND : An Icelandic Pioneer (novel unit) / Halldor Laxness. ITALY : Soliloquy of an Old Philosopher (essay) / Benedetto Croce -- The Seed Beneath the Snow [first English translation] (novel unit) / Ignazio Silone. SPAIN : Normal Madness (essay) /George Santayana -- The Coming of the Masses (essay) / Jose Ortega y Gasset -- Dedicated to Women (essay) / Salvador de Madariaga -- Youth and Egolatry (autobiography) / Pio Baraja. HOLLAND : Uncle Kees Protests (biography) / Pierre van Paassen. GREECE : Two poems (poetry) [March of the spirit; The sacred way] / Angelos Sikelianos. HUNGARY: Apage Satanas (novel unit) / Arthur Koestler -- Liliom?s Return (drama) / Ferenc Molnar. RUSSIA: The Gentleman from San Francisco (short story) / Ivan Bunn -? Civil War (novel unit) / Mikhail Sholokhov -- The Storm (novel units) / Ilya Ehrenburg.

IV. Asia : CHINA: The End of Living Is Living Itself (essay) / Lin Yutang -- The Civilizations of the East and West (essay) / Hu Shih. INDIA: Time in Prison (autobiography) / Jawaharlal Nehru -- The Life Divine: The Present Evolutionary Crisis (essay) / Sri Aurobindo.

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