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The Golden Argosy
''The Golden Argosy: The Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language'' is an anthology edited by Charles Grayson and Van H. Cartmell, and published by Dial Press in 1955. It is famous for being the favorite book of novelist Stephen King. Stories • "I'm a Fool" by Sherwood Anderson • "The Happy Hypocrite" by Max Beerbohm • "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benét • "The Damned Thing" by Ambrose Bierce • "The Chink and the Child" by Thomas Burke • "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather • "Back for Christmas" by John Collier • "Youth" by Joseph Conrad • "The Bar Sinister" by Richard Harding Davis • "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle • "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner • "Old Man Minick" by Edna Ferber • "The Rich Boy" by F. Scott Fitzgerald • "The Celestial Omnibus" by E.M. Forster • "The Three Strangers" by Thomas Hardy • "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte • "The Killers" by Ernest Hem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dial Press
The Dial Press was a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh. The Dial Press shared a building with ''The Dial'' and Scofield Thayer worked with both. The first imprint was issued in 1924. Authors included Elizabeth Bowen, W. R. Burnett and Glenway Wescott, Frank Yerby, James Baldwin, Roy Campbell, Susan Berman, Herbert Gold, Thomas Berger, Vance Bourjaily, Judith Rossner, and Norman Mailer. In 1963, Dell Publishing Company acquired 60% of the Dial Press stock but the Press remained an independent subsidiary. It was jointly owned by Richard Baron and Dell Publishing; E. L. Doctorow was editor-in-chief. In 1969 the Dial Press became wholly owned by Dell Publishing Company. In 1976 Doubleday bought Dell Publishing and the children's division of Dial Press (Dial Books for Young Readers) was sold to E. P. Dutton. The children's division of Dial Press published books under the Pied Piper imprint. Dutton would be bought by New American Library, which in turn beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Harding Davis
Richard Harding Davis (April 18, 1864 – April 11, 1916) was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt. He also played a major role in the evolution of the American magazine. His influence extended to the world of fashion, and he is credited with making the clean-shaven look popular among men at the turn of the 20th century. Biography Davis was born on April 18, 1864 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.''Encyclopedia of World Biography'', 2nd ed. (1998) His mother Rebecca Harding Davis was a prominent writer in her day. His father, Lemuel Clarke Davis, was himself a journalist and edited the ''Philadelphia Public Ledger''. As a young man, Davis attended the Episcopal Academy. In 1882, after an unhappy year at Swarthmore College, Davis transferred to Lehigh Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Killers (Hemingway Short Story)
"The Killers" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, published in ''Scribner's Magazine'' in 1927. After its appearance in ''Scribner's'', the story was published in '' Men Without Women,'' '' Snows of Kilimanjaro'', and '' The Nick Adams Stories''. The writer's depiction of the human experience, his use of satire, and the everlasting themes of death, friendship, and the purpose of life have contributed to make "The Killers" one of Hemingway's most famous and frequently anthologized short stories. The story features Nick Adams, a famous Hemingway character from his short stories. In this story, Hemingway shows Adams crossing over from teenager to adult. The basic plot of the story involves two hitmen who enter a restaurant seeking to kill a boxer, a Swede named Ole Andreson, who is hiding out for reasons unknown, possibly for winning a fight. Historians have some documents showing that the working title of the piece was "The Matadors". How much Hemingway received for the literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bret Harte
Bret Harte (; born Francis Brett Hart; August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials and magazine sketches. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. and later to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been those most often reprinted, adapted and admired. Biography Early life Harte was born in 1836 in New York's capital city of Albany. He was named after his great-grandfather, Francis Brett. When he was young, his father, Henry, changed the spelling of the family name from Hart to Harte. Henry's father was Bernard Hart, an Orthodox Jewish immigrant who flourished as a merchant, becoming one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange. Bret's mother, Eliza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outcasts Of Poker Flat
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1869) is a short story written by writer of the American West Bret Harte. An example of naturalism and local color of California during the first half of the nineteenth century. The story was first published in January 1869 in the magazine ''Overland Monthly''. It was one of two short stories which brought the author national attention. Plot summary The story takes place in a Californian community known as Poker Flat, near the town of La Porte. Following the loss of several thousand dollars and two horses, and the death of a notable resident, the town has formed a secret committee to rid itself of any "improper" people, hanging two and banishing others. On November 23, 1850, four such individuals are exiled from Poker Flat and warned not to return on pain of death. The first of them is a professional poker player, John Oakhurst, who has won large amounts from those on the secret committee. On his way out of town, he is joined by two women, the Duches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as '' Far from the Madding Crowd'' (1874), ''The Mayor of Casterbridge'' (1886), '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' (1891), and ''Jude the Obscure'' (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin. Many of his novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Strangers
"The Three Strangers" is a short story by Thomas Hardy from 1883. Background The story is a pastoral history told by an omniscient narrator more than 50 years after the event. The sheep-stealer is a kind of folk hero who stole to survive and escaped by outsmarting his hangman. Casterbridge was the name for Dorchester in Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Publication "The Three Strangers" was published in ''Longman's Magazine'' and ''Harper's Weekly'' in March 1883. Five years later it became the first of five stories in Hardy's ''Wessex Tales ''Wessex Tales'' is an 1888 collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840. In the various short stories, Hardy writes of the true nature of nineteenth-century marria ...''. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Three Strangers Works by Thomas Hardy 1883 short stories Works originally published in Harper's Magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Celestial Omnibus
''The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories'' is the title of a collection of short stories by English writer E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly ''A Room with a View'' (1908), ''Howards End'' (1910), and ''A Passage to India'' (1924). He also wrote numerous short stori ..., first published in 1911. It contains stories written over the previous ten years, and together with the collection '' The Eternal Moment'' (1928) forms part of Forster's ''Collected Short Stories'' (1947). Contents ''The Celestial Omnibus'' contains: * "The Story of a Panic" * " The Other Side of the Hedge" * "The Celestial Omnibus" * "Other Kingdom" * "The Curate's Friend" * "The Road from Colonus" External links * * 1911 short story collections Short story collections by E. M. Forster Fantasy short story collections 20th-century short stories British short story collections Sidgwick & Jackson boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rich Boy
"The Rich Boy" is a short story by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was included in his 1926 collection ''All the Sad Young Men''. "The Rich Boy" originally appeared in two parts, in the January and February 1926 issues of ''Redbook''. In the January installment, the story is described on the front cover as: "A great story of today's youth by F. Scott Fitzgerald". Plot summary F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Rich Boy" is a short story about Anson Hunter, a very affluent young man. Anson was born rich and has always enjoyed a life of privilege, including being tutored by a British nanny in the hopes that her accent and manner of speaking might rub off... Background and composition Fitzgerald wrote "The Rich Boy" in 1924, in Capri, while awaiting publication of ''The Great Gatsby''. He revised it in his apartment at 14 Rue de Tilsitt in Paris the following spring, during what he described as a period of "1000 parties and no work." By May 28, 1925, he wrote his literary agent, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning '' So Big'' (1924), ''Show Boat'' (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), '' Cimarron'' (1930; adapted into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), ''Giant'' (1952; made into the 1956 film of the same name) and ''Ice Palace'' (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960. Life and career Early years Ferber was born August 15, 1885, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to a Hungarian-born Jewish storekeeper, Jacob Charles Ferber, and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Julia (Neumann) Ferber, who was of German Jewish descent. The Ferbers had moved to Kalamazoo from Chicago, Illinois in order to open a dry goods store, and her older sister Fannie was born there three years earlier. Ferber's father was not adept at business, and the family moved often during Ferber's childhood. From Kalamazoo, they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Man Minick
''Old Man Minick'' is a short story by American author Edna Ferber first published in 1922. It was adapted into ''Minick'', a Broadway play staged in 1924, as well as the 1925 silent film '' Welcome Home'', the 1932 film '' The Expert'', and the 1939 film '' No Place to Go''. Background In the 1910s and 1920s, women's magazines published fiction by well-known writers, including Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, and Edna Ferber. During this era, the short story "Old Man Minick" was one of a variety of works first published serially in women's periodicals and then developed into plays and film. Ferber was inspired to write the story after listening to three old men on a park bench in Washington Park in Chicago as they talked about life. Plot The story is set in Chicago in the early 20th century, where a seventy year widower, Jo Minick, has to learn how to live, after the unexpected death of his wife, with whom he had been married to for forty years. Following her death he goes to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel Prize laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature. Born in New Albany, Mississippi, Faulkner's family moved to Oxford, Mississippi when he was a young child. With the outbreak of World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel '' Soldiers' Pay'' (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote '' Sartoris'' (1927), his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published ''The Sound and the Fury''. The following year, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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