Modern Essays by Christopher Morley et al.

Modern Essays

Morley, Christopher — 2024-09-19T01:17:21Z

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Title: Modern Essays

Contents: American literature / John Macy -- Mary White / William Allen White -- Niagara Falls / Rupert Brooke -- The almost perfect state / Don Marquis -- "The man o' war's 'er 'usband" / David W. Bone -- The market / William McFee -- Holy Ireland / Joyce Kilmer -- A familiar preface / Joseph Conrad -- On drawing / A.P. Herbert -- O. Henry / O.W. Firkins -- The mowing of a field / Hilaire Belloc -- The student life / William Osler -- The decline of drama / Stephen Leacock -- America and the English tradition / Harry Morgan Ayres -- The Russian quarter / Thomas Burke -- A word for autumn / A.A. Milne -- "A clergyman" / Max Beerbohm -- Samuel Butler / Stuart P. Sherman -- Bed-books and night-lights / H.M. Tomlinson -- The precept of peace / Louise Imogen Guiney -- On lying awake at night / Stewart Edward White -- A woodland Valentine / Marian Storm -- The elements of poetry / George Santayana -- Nocturne / Simeon Strunsky -- Beer and cider / George Saintsbury -- A free man's worship / Bertrand Russell -- Some historians / Philip Guedalla -- Winter mist / Robert Palfrey Utter -- Trivia / Logan Pearsall Smith -- Beyond life / James Branch Cabell -- The fish reporter / Robert Costes Holliday -- Some nonsense about a dog / Harry Esty Dounce -- The fifty-first dragon / Heywood Broun.

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Contributor: Ayres, Harry Morgan, 1881-1948

Contributor: Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956

Contributor: Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953

Contributor: Bone, David W. (David William), 1874-1959

Contributor: Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915

Contributor: Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939

Contributor: Burke, Thomas, 1886-1945

Contributor: Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958

Contributor: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924

Contributor: Dounce, Harry Esty, 1889-

Contributor: Firkins, Oscar W., 1864-1932

Contributor: Guedalla, Philip, 1889-1944

Contributor: Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1861-1920

Contributor: Herbert, A. P. (Alan Patrick), 1890-1971

Contributor: Holliday, Robert Cortes, 1880-1947

Contributor: Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918

Contributor: Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944

Contributor: Macy, John Albert, 1877-1932

Contributor: Marquis, Don, 1878-1937

Contributor: McFee, William, 1881-1966

Contributor: Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956

Contributor: Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919

Contributor: Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

Contributor: Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933

Contributor: Santayana, George, 1863-1952

Contributor: Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926

Contributor: Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946

Contributor: Storm, Marian, 1892?-1975

Contributor: Strunsky, Simeon, 1879-1948

Contributor: Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major), 1873-1958

Contributor: Utter, Robert Palfrey, 1875-1936

Contributor: White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946

Contributor: White, William Allen, 1868-1944

Editor: Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957

EBook No.: 38280

Published: Dec 11, 2011

Downloads: 566

Language: English

Subject: English essays

Subject: American essays

LoCC: Language and Literatures: English literature

LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.