Pause to wonder / edited by Marjorie Fischer and Rolfe Humphries.

Other author Fischer, Marjorie.
Other author Humphries, Rolfe.
Format Book
Publication InfoGarden City, N.Y. : Sun Dial Press, [1947]
Descriptionxix, 572 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: possibility of pleasure -- Reason / Ralph Hodgson -- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf -- The philosophy of relative existence / Frank R. Stockton -- Birth / Liam O'Flaherty -- The curious case of Benjamin Button / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Strong by quirky / Irwin Shapiro -- The man that stopped / Frank O'Connor -- A man and his boots / W. B. Yeats -- Off the ground / Walter De La Mare -- The time of true Thomas / John Buchan -- The haunted man / Ralph Bates -- A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- The bowmen / Arthur Machen -- Before the battle at Lake Trasimenus / Livy -- Private Martin Passy / William March -- Ballaf of the buried sword / Ernest Rhys -- The perfect game / G.K. Chesterton -- The Canterville ghost / Oscar Wilde -- The rival beauties / W.W. Jacobs -- The dong with the luminous nose / Edward Lear -- The transferred ghost / Frank R. Stockton -- A beautiful maiden / Charles Erskine Scott Wood -- An imperfect conflagaration / Ambrose Bierce -- The phanton fence rider of Sam Miguel / Henry Yelvington -- Old Christmas / Roy Helton -- The real right thing / Henry James -- The quick and the dead / Finley Peter Dunne -- Lady into fox / David Garnett -- Charley Lambert / J. M. Synge -- The bold dragon / Washington Irving -- The vixen / Wilifrid Wilson Gilbert -- A blazing starre seene in the west / D. H. Lawrence -- Dionysus and the pard / Georffrey Household -- Story og Pygmalion / Ovid --The casher / John Collier -- King Cheop's daughter / Herodotus -- Nelly trim / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- The story of the siren / E.M. Forster -- The unicorn in the garner / James Thurber -- Moung Shasta / Charles Erskine Scott Wood -- The wisdom of the king / W.B. Yeats -- Oprheus and Eurydice / Vigil -- A true account / Cotton Mather -- The witch of Coos / Robert Frost -- Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven / Mark Twain -- Colonel Sterett relates marvels / Alfred Henry Lewis -- A true story / Lucian -- Macavity: the mystery cat / T.S. Eliot -- Private Roger Jones / William March -- Tall tales of g.i.s / Sergeant Bill Davidson -- The elks / Julius Casear -- Sacre du Printemps / Ludwig Bemelmans -- The elf in Algiers / John Steinback -- Lord deliver us / Donald Cowie -- The voice of God / Winifred Holtby -- The judgement seat / W. Someset Maughan -- The sensitive goldfish / Christina Stead -- Panic / Orson Welles -- The soul of Laploshka / H. H. Munro ("Saki") -- "No trouble at all" / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Welsh incident / Robert Graves --The angry street: a bad dream / G.K. Chesterton -- Artist unknown / Heywood Broun -- The miracle of St. Scothinus -- The saint / Antonia White -- The silence of God / Osbert Sitwell -- A miracle of St. Goar -- Building the burch / J.M. Synge -- Private Edward Romano / William March -- Blessed Patrick of the bells / Lady Gregory -- How caedmon learned to sing / Bede -- King O'Toole and St. Kevin / Samuel Lover -- The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells -- A shepherd and a shepherdess / Elizabeth Goudge -- The case of Prometheus / Max Beerbohm -- The road of Colonus / E.M. Forster -- Mr. Valiant summoned / John Bunyan -- Philemon and Bauvis / Ovid -- The fairy goose / Liam O'Flaherty -- The passing strange / John Masefield --
Local noteJoyner-See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections.
General noteAt head of title: Stories of the marvelous, mysterious and strange.
General note"Reprint edition."
Acquisitions source Joyner Schlobin copy Gift of Roger Schlobin, 2004
LCCN 47023360

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner Schlobin Fantasy Collection PN6071.M25 F5 1947 ✔ Available Request Material