John Cournos (1881–1966)
Autore di A World of Great Stories
Sull'Autore
Serie
Opere di John Cournos
Modern Plutarch Being an Account of Some Great Lives in the Nineteenth Century, together with Some Comparisons between… (1928) 9 copie
The Wall 3 copie
The Best British Short Stories of 1933 — A cura di — 2 copie
Grandmother Martin is Murdered 2 copie
The fifteen finest short stories 1 copia
Famous British poets 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Jewish caravan : great stories of twenty-five centuries (1935) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 129 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1932 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1932) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1923 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1924) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Imagist anthology, 1930 : poems by Richard Aldington, John Cournos, H.D., John Gould Fletcher, F.S. Flint, Ford Madox… — Collaboratore — 4 copie
American Aphrodite a Quarterly For the Fancy-Free (Volume 1, Number 3)"'Venus and Tannhauser' by Aubrey Beardsley" -… (1951) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Cournos, John
- Nome legale
- Korshun, Ivan Grigorievich
- Altri nomi
- Courtney, John (pseudonym)
Gorky (pseudonym) - Data di nascita
- 1881-03-06
- Data di morte
- 1966-08-27
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
Russian Empire (birth) - Nazione (per mappa)
- Ukraine
- Luogo di nascita
- Zhitomir, Volhynian Gubernorate, Russian Empire
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
London, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- writer
translator - Relazioni
- Norton, Sybil (wife)
Satterthwaite, Alfred W. (stepson)
Sayers, Dorothy L (love affair) - Organizzazioni
- The Imagists
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 33
- Opere correlate
- 25
- Utenti
- 400
- Popolarità
- #60,685
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 31
- Preferito da
- 1
In reading these stories one is left with a sense of how bleak, primitive and hopeless humanity was in the first half of the 20th century. How different a world that was from what most of us living and reading today have experienced. Of course, the effects of the world wars between 1914 and 1945 created living horrors, personal and economic, that we can barely imagine today. A huge majority of the stories collected here reflect badly on humanity both collectively and individually. However, there are a few bright spots. Some of the stories actually leave the reader with at least an inner smile.
The editors state at the outset that most countries did not have a short story tradition, so it would have been impossible to create such an international collection of short fiction without resorting to excerpts from novels and even one play.
Altogether this is a significant collection of tales representing the period. I read the stories randomly, and as luck would have it, ended on a high note. I found some authors whose work interests me enough to look for more of their writing.… (altro)