| Description |
xi, 589 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Enlarged edition of Modern short biographies, published 1935. |
| Bibliography |
"For further reading in the modern short biography": pages 581-589. |
| Contents |
The modern gothic / Vincent Sheean -- Going to college / Lincoln Steffens -- These crude young men / Bliss Perry -- Father sends me to the world's fair / Clarence Day -- Almost thirty / John Reed -- After nineteen years / Louis Adamic -- Christmas / Floyd Dell -- Vocation / James Joyce -- Knowing Walt Whitman / Logan Pearsall Smith -- J.D. Marstock / Harold Nicolson -- Storm center in Brookline / Louis Untermeyer -- An adventure out of the west / Rollo Walter Brown -- The wife of Abraham Lincoln / Gamaliel Bradford -- Thorau at Walden / Van Wyck Brooks -- P.T. Barnum / R.F. Dibble -- Time...fortune...life...luce / Wolcott Gibbs -- Tin Lizzie / John Dos Passos -- Mr. Ambassador / Janet Flanner -- Woodrow Wilson / William Allen White -- The council of four / John Maynard Keynes -- Mussolini / Emil Ludwig -- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek / John Gunther -- The stepfather of the United States / Philip Guedalla -- Florence Nightingale / Lytton Strachey -- Miss Ormerod / Virginia Woolf -- The sorrows of the young werther / Andre ĚMaurois. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Biography as a literary form.
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Biography as a literary form. |
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