John Cournos (1881–1966)
Auteur de A World of Great Stories
A propos de l'auteur
Séries
Œuvres de John Cournos
Modern Plutarch Being an Account of Some Great Lives in the Nineteenth Century, together with Some Comparisons between… (1928) 9 exemplaires
The Wall 3 exemplaires
The Best British Short Stories of 1933 — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
The Best British Short Stories of 1926: With an Irish Supplement (1926) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
Grandmother Martin is Murdered 2 exemplaires
The fifteen finest short stories 1 exemplaire
Pilgrimage to Freedom, the story of Roger Williams 1 exemplaire
With hey, ho...and The man with the spats 1 exemplaire
Famous British poets 1 exemplaire
The Best British Short Stories of 1927: With an Irish Supplement (1927) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Jewish caravan : great stories of twenty-five centuries (1935) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 129 exemplaires
The Best Short Stories of 1932 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1932) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
The Best Short Stories of 1923 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1924) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Bachelor's Quarters: Stories from Two Worlds (1944) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 7 exemplaires
Imagist anthology, 1930 : poems by Richard Aldington, John Cournos, H.D., John Gould Fletcher, F.S. Flint, Ford Madox… — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
American Aphrodite a Quarterly For the Fancy-Free (Volume 1, Number 3)"'Venus and Tannhauser' by Aubrey Beardsley" -… (1951) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Cournos, John
- Nom légal
- Korshun, Ivan Grigorievich
- Autres noms
- Courtney, John (pseudonym)
Gorky (pseudonym) - Date de naissance
- 1881-03-06
- Date de décès
- 1966-08-27
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
Russian Empire (birth) - Pays (pour la carte)
- Ukraine
- Lieu de naissance
- Zhitomir, Volhynian Gubernorate, Russian Empire
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
London, England, UK - Professions
- writer
translator - Relations
- Norton, Sybil (wife)
Satterthwaite, Alfred W. (stepson)
Sayers, Dorothy L (love affair) - Organisations
- The Imagists
Membres
Critiques
Listes
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 33
- Aussi par
- 25
- Membres
- 400
- Popularité
- #60,685
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 31
- Favoris
- 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.… (plus d'informations)