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Anthologies
Take Along Treasury
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- First editions:
- Doubleday, 1963, USA.
- Edited by Bennett Cerf and Leonora Hornblow
- Contains:
Description
[Taken from a listing on eBay.com...]
"Good reading here! This is a nice fat volume, a Book Club edition, 678 pages of stories from the creme of literary society – back when you could write artistically and still turn in a good STORY to your readers. (Do I sound bitter?) Just SOME of the writers: Isak Dinesen, Aldous Huxley, Irwin Shaw, Lawrence Durrell, Dylan Thomas, Liam O'Flaherty, Willa Cather, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dickson Carr, Daphne du Maurier, Graham Greene, Roald Dahl, John Updike, Jean Kerr amd William Faulkner.
About the Editor: In 1927 Mr. Cerf, with his partner Donald Klopfer, founded Random House, a firm that has acquired an enviable list of authors and has been the sponsor of many talented newcomers in the field of writing. It was Bennett Cerf who contracted for the U.S. rights in James Joyce's "Ulysses", even though at that time the book was banned in this country. His concern for the reading available to young people resulted in establishing the Landmark Books and the World Landmark series. His conviction of the need for a new desk dictionary produced the American College Dictionary... Mr. Cerf is an indefatigable man who finds time and energy to be not only a publisher, but also a columnist ("The Cerf Board"), a TV panelist ("What's My Line?"), a lecturer, an author and anthologist (An Anthology of American Short Stories, Try and Stop Me, The Life of the Party, etc.). By his own admission books are his real love."
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