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...Scribner Treasury. A collection of 22 classic short stories written between 1881 and 1931; not recent but highly readable (TIME, July...
...Scribner Treasury. A collection of 22 classic short stories written between 1881 and 1931; not recent but highly readable (TIME, July...
...Scribner Treasury. A collection of 22 classic short stories written between 1881 and 1931: not recent but highly readable (TIME, July...
...year-old house of Scribner says that it has no special thesis in assembling them in one volume. Scribner simply searched through its files for classics and picked 22 written between 1881 and 1931. All the stories in the Scribner Treasury "won immediate public favor" when they first appeared, however, and the demand for them "has never ceased." Among the storytellers in the collection: Edith Wharton, John Galsworthy, Thomas Nelson Page, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Ring Lardner and Sir James Barrie. Among the other Scribner storytellers notably passed over: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemingway...
...Scribner denies thesis but admits that the stories show something about writers and readers, at least up to the '30s: "They . . . believed firmly in standards of behavior, in right and wrong, in law and its opposite, disorder. They might differ in particulars, but the great ends of living were common in their thinking; and they were assured that literature, to have meaning, must offer not only a slice of life but a criticism...