John Cournos (1881–1966)
Autor de A World of Great Stories
Sobre El Autor
Series
Obras de John Cournos
Modern Plutarch Being an Account of Some Great Lives in the Nineteenth Century, together with Some Comparisons between… (1928) 9 copias
The Wall 3 copias
The Best British Short Stories of 1933 — Editor — 2 copias
Grandmother Martin is Murdered 2 copias
The fifteen finest short stories 1 copia
Famous British poets 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Jewish caravan : great stories of twenty-five centuries (1935) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 129 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1932 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1932) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1923 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1924) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
Imagist anthology, 1930 : poems by Richard Aldington, John Cournos, H.D., John Gould Fletcher, F.S. Flint, Ford Madox… — Contribuidor — 4 copias
American Aphrodite a Quarterly For the Fancy-Free (Volume 1, Number 3)"'Venus and Tannhauser' by Aubrey Beardsley" -… (1951) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Cournos, John
- Nombre legal
- Korshun, Ivan Grigorievich
- Otros nombres
- Courtney, John (pseudonym)
Gorky (pseudonym) - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1881-03-06
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1966-08-27
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
Russian Empire (birth) - País (para mapa)
- Ukraine
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Zhitomir, Volhynian Gubernorate, Russian Empire
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
London, England, UK - Ocupaciones
- writer
translator - Relaciones
- Norton, Sybil (wife)
Satterthwaite, Alfred W. (stepson)
Sayers, Dorothy L (love affair) - Organizaciones
- The Imagists
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 33
- También por
- 25
- Miembros
- 400
- Popularidad
- #60,685
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 31
- Favorito
- 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.… (más)