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1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 612 pages ; 23 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
"Biographical and bibliographical notes": pages 601-612. |
| Contents |
Young Olav and Ingunn, from "The master of Hestviken" / Sigrid Undset -- Why do we laugh? from "Laughter" / Henri Bergson -- The shoes / Grazia Deledda -- Death / Ladislas Reymont -- The land of heart's desire ; The wisdom of the king ; Down by the Salley Gardens ; The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- His widow's husband / Jacinto Benavente -- Lucifer ; Sylvestre Bonnard finds Jeanne, from "The crime of Sylvestre Bonnard" / Anatole France -- The call of life ; Isak and Inger, from "Growth of the soil" / Knut Hamsun -- Anniversary celebrations, from "Laughing truths" ; Hylas and Kaleidusa over hill and vale, from "Olympian spring" / Carl Spitteler -- A fisher nest / Henrik Pontoppidan -- Kamanita and Vasitthi, from "The pilgrim Kamanita" / Karl Gjellerup -- A clean white shirt, from "The Charles men" ; Invocation and promise / Verner Von Heidenstam. |
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Lightning strikes Christophe, from "Jean-Christophe" / Romain Rolland -- Eleven poems from "The crescent moon" / Rabindranath Tagore -- The sunken bell / Gerhart Hauptmann -- Interior / Maurice Maeterlinck -- L'Arrabiata / Paul Heyse -- The outlaws / Selma Lagerlof -- Back to religion / Rudolf Eucken -- The way through the woods ; The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling -- Levia gravia ; In the Arno Valley ; Carnival ; Homer ; By night / Giousue Carducci -- Bartek the conqueror / Henryk Sienkiewicz -- The street singer / Jose Echegaray -- The mares of the Camargue, from "Mireio" ; The cocooning, from "Mireio" / Frederic Mistral -- Synnove's song ; Between the battles ; Over the lofty mountains ; The father / Bjornstjerne Bjornson. |
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Caesar, from "The history of Rome" / Theodor Mommsen -- The struggle ; The appointment ; If you but knew ; The death agony ; The shadow / Rene Sully-Prudhomme. |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century.
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Nobel Prizes.
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Literature, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01000172
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Nobel Prizes. (OCoLC)fst01038249
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Added Author |
McClintock, Marshall, 1906-1967, editor.
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