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THOMAS B.COSTAIN
From a lifetime of perceptive and voluminous reading, as a distinguished editor of the Saturday Evening Fost and later as a masterful novelist in his own right, Thomas B. Costain has as-sembled an outstanding collection of stories by many of the leading and most popular authors of our time. The works selected for this anthology rangé from William E. Barrett's unforgettable növel, The Lilies of the Field, which was made into an Academy Award win-ning movie, to Gilbert Chesterton's classic Father Brown story, The Queer Feet, and to Paul Gallico's most popular novelette, The Snow Goose. Alsó in-cluded are stories by such important writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Mary McCarthy, Kather-ine Anne Porter, and Virginia Woolf.
Here is a marvelous off-beat story by Brendan Behan, called The Confirma-tion Suit; a little gem from Dorothy Parker; and humorous pieces by two very funny men, P. G. Wodehouse and Stephen Leacock. And here are stories... Tovább

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READ WITHME
THOMAS B.COSTAIN
From a lifetime of perceptive and voluminous reading, as a distinguished editor of the Saturday Evening Fost and later as a masterful novelist in his own right, Thomas B. Costain has as-sembled an outstanding collection of stories by many of the leading and most popular authors of our time. The works selected for this anthology rangé from William E. Barrett's unforgettable növel, The Lilies of the Field, which was made into an Academy Award win-ning movie, to Gilbert Chesterton's classic Father Brown story, The Queer Feet, and to Paul Gallico's most popular novelette, The Snow Goose. Alsó in-cluded are stories by such important writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Mary McCarthy, Kather-ine Anne Porter, and Virginia Woolf.
Here is a marvelous off-beat story by Brendan Behan, called The Confirma-tion Suit; a little gem from Dorothy Parker; and humorous pieces by two very funny men, P. G. Wodehouse and Stephen Leacock. And here are stories by Stephen Vincent Benét, Agatha (Continued on back flap)
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Christie, Ben Hecht, MacKinlay Kantor, Rudyard Kipling, John O'Hara, J. B. Priestley, and Dámon Runyon. In all, Mr. Costain has chosen memorable works from thirty-one distinguished authors.
Mr. Costain has written an introduction to each story for the collection, properly setting the mood and scene and providing a number of personal observations and comments. Many of the stories are recently published; all are brilliant, imaginative, and different.
Thomas B. Costain read thousands of short stories during his years as an editor of the Saturday Evening Post. He later beeame an editor at Double-day and Company, and began his brilliant career as a novelist and histórián. He is the author of the four-volume narrative history of the Plantagenets and of such widely read novels as The Silver Chalice and The Last Love. Mr. Costain was born in Canada and now lives in New York City. Vissza