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A Solider's Christmas Reader
A Volume Containing Four Hundred Thousand Words of Select Literary Entertainment for the American Sailor on the Water or in the Air/Védőborítós példány
| Kiadó: | Heritage Press |
|---|---|
| Kiadás helye: | New York |
| Kiadás éve: | |
| Kötés típusa: | Vászon |
| Oldalszám: | 751 oldal |
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| Nyelv: | Angol |
| Méret: | 19 cm x 12 cm |
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| Megjegyzés: | További szerzők a kötetben. |
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The Editor Sticks His Neck Out [I.E.: PREFACE]
Next to the oft-repeated pleasures of eating and drinking, next to the repeated pleasure of making love, the compilation of this volume has... Tovább
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The Editor Sticks His Neck Out [I.E.: PREFACE]
Next to the oft-repeated pleasures of eating and drinking, next to the repeated pleasure of making love, the compilation of this volume has proved the most enjoyable act of my life. For I have had to go back over the voluminous reading of thirty years, to determine what words which I have read could now be read with enjoyment by a soldier.
This is a book which is to be given to a soldier, which is to find its way into the hands of a soldier, a soldier who may be in a training camp in Florida or Wisconsin or Texas or California, a soldier who may be fighting in Italy or New Guinea or the Aleutians, a soldier about whom I can safely pre-suppose only two things: that he is in uniform, and that he has learned how to read.
I had decided that I would not want to put together a "reader" which would contain such gems of literary discovery that other professional literary men would tell each other how clever I am; I decided that I did not want to put together a "reader" the contents-page of which would prove it to be a selection from the contents-pages of other people's anthologies; no, I decided that I would go back over everything I could remember reading in the past thirty years, and glean from all the chaff the kernels which it now seemed to me would prove enjoyable when read by a soldier; and then print, of course, the kernels and not the chaff!
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The Table of Contents
BOOKS & LONG STORIES Those Old Lunes! or, Which is the Madman?
BY WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS 14
Beneath the Walls of Carthage
BY GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 66
The War of the Worlds
BY H. G. WELLS 133
Madame Tellier's Establishment
BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT 271
The Amorous Duck
BY CHARLES G. FINNEY 497
A Visit to the Folks
BY IVAN TURGENEV 565
The Diamond Lens
BY FITZ-JAMES o'BRIEN 606
The Man without a Country
BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE 637
The Man Who Killed Goliath
BY ELMER DAVIS 699
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xii_the contents [Continued]
SHORT STORIES
Sergeant Limeburner
by john cheever j
For the Love of a Man
by jack london 54
The Gift of the Magi
by o. henry 305
Undertaker Song
by damon runyon 326
Little Sir Hercules
BY aldous huxley 359
A Letter from the Queen
by sinclair lewis 391
An African Day
by rene maran 436
Alibi Ike
by ring w. lardner 443
Rope Enough
by john collier 539
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
by james thurber 588
Doctor Abraham
by w. somerset maugham 695
GENERAL FEATURES Hands Across the Sea
by alexander woollcott 30
The Amateur in Spain
by alvah c. bessie 34
The Revolt of the Tartars
by thomas de quincey ^5
George W. and the Chemj Tree
by parson weems 104
the contents [Continued] xiii
What Makes a Man Unhappy
by thomas carlyle 296
The Rover Boys in Russia; or, It Happened to Adolf, Too
by clifton fadiman 311
The Magic Bullet
by paul de kruif 338
Three Letters on the English
by andre maurois 407
If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg
by winston churchill 421
Memories of Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman: The Death of the President, a speech; and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed . 478 What Liberty Is
by lord john russell 545
Torture
by t. e. lawrence 630
The Electrician
by carl van doren 661
On the Fear of Death
by william hazlitt 686
The United States are Essentially the Greatest
Poem by walt whitman 736
POETRY
Poems in Praise of the Ladies and the Soft Emotions They
Inspire 113
Poems in Praise of God, Country, Home and Nature . . 369
Poems in Praise of Friends Living and Dead 461
Poems in Praise of Battle, Courage and the Manly Virtues 518
Poems in Praise of a Man's Dreams and Similar
' Melancholia 594
Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing
by samuel hoffenstein 730
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