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The Great Modern English Stories

O'Brien, Edward J.
The Great Modern English Stories
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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White Fountains

O'Brien, Edward J.
White Fountains
Excerpt from White Fountains: Odes and LyricsA word is necessary as to the metrical form of the two Odes in this volume. This form is 'based on the rhythms Of Gregorian plain chant, with cer tain modifications required by the genius Of English speech. Caesural pauses are indicated by commas, following the tradition of Mr. Bridges, Mr. Doughty, and other English poets. The metre may be ao celerated or retarded in this form as the emotional expr...

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The Best Short Stories of 1920

O'Brien, Edward J.
The Best Short Stories of 1920
Excerpt from The Best Short Stories of 1920: And the Yearbook of the American Short StoryA writer of good stories is really a man who risks tell ing the same story to many thousand people. Did you ever take such a risk? Did you ever start to tell a story to a stranger, and try to make your point without know ing what sort of a man he was? If you did, what was your experience? You decided, didn't you, that story telling was an art, and you wond...

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The Masque of Poets

O'Brien, Edward J.
The Masque of Poets
Excerpt from The Masque of Poets: A Collection of New Poems by Contemporary American PoetsI do not claim completeness for this series of poems, but I do claim that it is representative. I regret the absence Of several contributors whose contributions to the spiritual life Of our day have been notable, but the war has had a numbing effect on many minds, and in other cases poets have recently published volumes containing every manuscript that th...

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The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the Am...

O'Brien, Edward J.
The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short StoryWe are also in some danger of seeking romantic escape from the machine by creating a mysticism of the machine, and by regarding the machine as something transcendental. This is sincere enough, because it is the result of action on the part of those who have suffered from the machine. We know how deeply rooted is the instinct to lay propitiatory offerings be...

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Distant Music (Classic Reprint)

O'Brien, Edward J.
Distant Music (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Distant MusicFor permission to reprint certain poems in this collection grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of The Century, Harper's Magazine, The North American Review, The B'ookman, The Smart Set. The Poetry Journal, Contemporary Verse, The Liberator, The Midland, The Little Review, The Pagan, The Stratford Journal, Pearson's Magazine, and The Boston Evening Transcript' and to the editors of the following English peri...

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