Some American Storytellers
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118
1911
English
- Preface
- Ch. 1 Francis Marion Crawford
- Ch. 2 Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Ch. 3 Winston Churchill
- Ch. 4 Robert W. Chambers
- Ch. 5 Ellen Glasgow
- Ch. 6 David Graham Phillips
- Ch. 7 Robert Herrick
- Ch. 8 Edith Wharton
- Ch. 9 Newton Booth Tarkington
- Ch. 10 O.Henry
- Ch. 11 Gertrude Atherton
- Ch. 12 Owen Wister
- Ch. 13 Frank Norris
- Ch. 14 Ambrose Bierce
Frederic Taber Cooper, who was an editor and author, provides a superb insight into the works of some of the most popular authors of the turn of the century decade.
Excerpt: The subjects of the essays included in this volume differ widely in aim and in accomplishment; but all of them possess, to a considerable extent, the gift that makes them next of kin to the minstrel and troubadour, to the ancient fabulist, and to the forgotten spinner of the world s first nursery tales, the gift of holding the attention by the spell of the spoken word.
- Summary by Celine Major
Excerpt: The subjects of the essays included in this volume differ widely in aim and in accomplishment; but all of them possess, to a considerable extent, the gift that makes them next of kin to the minstrel and troubadour, to the ancient fabulist, and to the forgotten spinner of the world s first nursery tales, the gift of holding the attention by the spell of the spoken word.
- Summary by Celine Major
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