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On second thought. /

On Second Thought was first published in 1946. NOW book editor of the Chicago Daily News, James Gray has during the past two decades interpreted the literary scene for Midwest readers in entertaining daily columns for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch. ON SECOND THOUGHT rescues much of his bes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gray, James, 1899-1984
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, London, University of Minnesota Press; G. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press [1946]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Did I say that?
  • Gods by adoption: Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, Pearl Buck
  • Four rich uncles: Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw
  • Tenderly tolls the bell for three soldiers: Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway
  • "Very important personages:" Edith Wharton, John P. Marquand, Struthers Burt
  • Forever panting and forever young: Thomas Wolfe, William Saroyan
  • A local habitation: Erskine Caldwell, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, John Steinbeck
  • Aunts from Virginia: Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow
  • The catastrophe of competence: Edna Ferber, Louis Bromfield
  • Obituary for the human race: Aldous Huxley, Somerset Maugham
  • Dream of unfair women: Nancy Hale, Clare Boothe Luce, Dorothy Parker
  • Hypatia at the helm: Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain, Phyllis Bentley, Storm Jameson
  • We walk in anguish: Thomas Mann, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, André Malraux, Jules Romains, Erich Maria Remarque, Arthur Koestler, Mark Aldanov, Georges Duhamel
  • Half-gods on the threshold.