Moochie the Soochie Visits the Peace People (1)
A two part book.
Part-1: Moochie is a childrens character that travels through human history to find people in times of peace.
Part-2: Moochie travels the world and learns greetings in several languages from every populated continent.
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Our Short Story Writers
This literary volume is from 1920.
Summary from the book?s Foreword:
At the risk of supererogation I desire to state
emphatically that these twenty authors are only
representative of our short story writers. I
labor under no delusion that they are all we have of
high rank, rather am I inclined to suspect that the first
prospective reader will find his favorite story teller
missing. Some of my own preferred stylists are con-
spicuously absent; and, although for the most part I
have included those whom within prescribed limits I
place first, I regretfully record the absentees. The
short story is the literary medium that supersedes all
others in America; one small volume is a container
too exiguous for even its chief authors.
According to the dominant principle working
throughout the series of which this book is a unit, the
writers discussed should be living or at least con-
temporary. If, by request of the publishers. Jack
London and ?O. Henry? were to be replevined from
the famous dead, I was of the opinion that Richard
Harding Davis should not be omitted. Henry James,
from a literary point of view, would precede any of
these three. For reasons later forthcoming, how-
ever, he is not among those present. The seventeen
living writers I have chosen on three counts: sig-
nificance of work in time or theme or other respect;
weight or actual value of work, and quantity of work
measured by the number of stories or story volumes.
It happens that certain significant writers may have
been left out because of their having turned, after one
momentous contribution to the short story, to the novel,
or for other reason having failed to produce a corpus
of short story material. George W. Cable?s place in
literature was established primarily through Old Creole
Days; but in the opinion of the present writer the
niche he occupies is that of novelist. ?Octave
Thanet? one might rightly expect to find here. But
only her first volume had been pubHshed when Ham-
lin Garland?s Main-Travelled Roads appeared, and
there were stronger arguments for his inclusion. Many
recent writers have published in leading periodicals
stories which have not yet found preservation between
the covers of a book. There are enough of these
writers alone to justify a volume of reviews.
Table of Contents:
CHAPTER I ? Alice Brown
CHAPTER II ? James Branch Cabell
CHAPTER III ? Dorothy Canfield
CHAPTER IV ? Robert W. Chambers
CHAPTER V ? Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
CHAPTER VI ? James Brendan Connolly
CHAPTER Vll ? Richard Harding Davis
CHAPTER VIII ? Margaret Wade Deland
CHAPTER IX ? EdnaFerber
CHAPTER X ? Mary Wilkins Freeman
CHAPTER XI ? Hamlin Garland
CHAPTER XII ? William Sidney Porter (?O. Henry?)
CHAPTER XIII ? Joseph Hergesheimer
CHAPTER XIV ? Fannie Hurst
CHAPTER XV ? Jack London
CHAPTER XVI ? James Brander Matthews
CHAPTER XVII ? Melville Davisson Post
CHAPTER XVIII ? Mary Roberts Rinehart
CHAPTER XIX ? Booth Tarkington
CHAPTER XX ? Edith Wharton
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