John Cournos (1881–1966)
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Modern Plutarch Being an Account of Some Great Lives in the Nineteenth Century, together with Some Comparisons between… (1928) 9 exemplaren
The Wall 3 exemplaren
The Best British Short Stories of 1933 — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren
Grandmother Martin is Murdered 2 exemplaren
The fifteen finest short stories 1 exemplaar
With hey, ho...and The man with the spats 1 exemplaar
Famous British poets 1 exemplaar
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The Jewish caravan : great stories of twenty-five centuries (1935) — Medewerker, sommige edities — 129 exemplaren
The Best Short Stories of 1932 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1932) — Medewerker — 13 exemplaren
The Best Short Stories of 1923 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1924) — Medewerker — 9 exemplaren
Imagist anthology, 1930 : poems by Richard Aldington, John Cournos, H.D., John Gould Fletcher, F.S. Flint, Ford Madox… — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
American Aphrodite a Quarterly For the Fancy-Free (Volume 1, Number 3)"'Venus and Tannhauser' by Aubrey Beardsley" -… (1951) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Cournos, John
- Officiële naam
- Korshun, Ivan Grigorievich
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Courtney, John (pseudonym)
Gorky (pseudonym) - Geboortedatum
- 1881-03-06
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1966-08-27
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
Russian Empire (birth) - Land (voor op de kaart)
- Ukraine
- Geboorteplaats
- Zhitomir, Volhynian Gubernorate, Russian Empire
- Plaats van overlijden
- New York, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
London, England, UK - Beroepen
- writer
translator - Relaties
- Norton, Sybil (wife)
Satterthwaite, Alfred W. (stepson)
Sayers, Dorothy L (love affair) - Organisaties
- The Imagists
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- 400
- Populariteit
- #60,685
- Waardering
- 3.8
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- 4
- ISBNs
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In reading these stories one is left with a sense of how bleak, primitive and hopeless humanity was in the first half of the 20th century. How different a world that was from what most of us living and reading today have experienced. Of course, the effects of the world wars between 1914 and 1945 created living horrors, personal and economic, that we can barely imagine today. A huge majority of the stories collected here reflect badly on humanity both collectively and individually. However, there are a few bright spots. Some of the stories actually leave the reader with at least an inner smile.
The editors state at the outset that most countries did not have a short story tradition, so it would have been impossible to create such an international collection of short fiction without resorting to excerpts from novels and even one play.
Altogether this is a significant collection of tales representing the period. I read the stories randomly, and as luck would have it, ended on a high note. I found some authors whose work interests me enough to look for more of their writing.… (meer)