THE NIGHTSTAND READER FOR MEN
Gilroy, Mark; Honea, Christina (editors) (Sir Walter Raleigh; Mark Twain; Bret Harte; Robert Louis Stevenson; Lou Gehrig; Kahlil Gibran; O. Henry; Emily Dickinson; James Joyce; H. G. Wells; Alexandre Dumas; John F. Kennedy; Anton Chekhov; Lord Byron)
Language: English
Published by Mark Gilroy Communications, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2002
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, CanadaWF Sandercombe
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382 pp. Bound in blue leather and decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; pasted-on pictorial on the front panel; blue endpapers; headband; ribbon marker. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings; as issued, no dustjacket. This anthology contains: What Is Life by Sir Walter Raleigh; Concerning the American Language by Mark Twain; The Luck of the Roaring Camp by Bret Harte; The Acolian Harp by Herman Melville; Odysseus Returns Home by Homer; Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson; Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer; The Luckiest Man by Lou Gehrig; On Self Knowledge by Kahlil Gibran; The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen; The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton; To Celia by Ben Jonson; When Icicles Hang By the Wall by William Shakespeare; Spades Are Spades by Frederick Nebel; The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry; Larry O'Toole by William Thackery; The Snake by Emily Dickinson; Flood by James Joyce; The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells; The Invisible Man by G. K. Chesterton; The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation by John Bunyan; The Old Stoic by Emily Bronte; The Child's Story by Charles Dickens; A Prodigal Son by Christina Rossetti; The Castaway by William Cowper; Break Break Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Escape from Chateau d'If by Alexandre Dumas; The Soldier by Rupert Brooke; Farewell Address to Congress by General Douglas MacArthur; In Flanders Fields by John McCrae; Patriotism by Sir Walter Scott; To Build a Fire by Jack London; Not Guilty by A. A. Milne; The Modern Major General by W. S. Gilbert; The Night Express by Willa Cather; Sir Galahad by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Young and Old by Charles Kingsley; A Lesson in Work by Mark Twain; Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy; The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather; Memorabilia by Robert Browning; A Noiseless Patient Spider by Wal Whitman; The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe; Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare; Before the Curtain by Bret Harte; For Lack of Gold by Adam Austin; A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov; The Dying Gladiator by Lord Byron; Prometheus by Lord Byron; Final Requiem by James Fenimore Cooper; The Adventure of the Abbey Grange by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Star by H. G. Wells; The Huntsman by Anton Chekhov; A Hunting Song by Henry Fielding; Rich and Poor by Thomas Love Peacock; Light Shining Out of Darkness by William Cooper; and The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte. Size: 8vo.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- THE NIGHTSTAND READER FOR MEN
- Author
- Gilroy, Mark; Honea, Christina (editors) (Sir Walter Raleigh; Mark Twain; Bret Harte; Robert Louis Stevenson; Lou Gehrig; Kahlil Gibran; O. Henry; Emily Dickinson; James Joyce; H. G. Wells; Alexandre Dumas; John F. Kennedy; Anton Chekhov; Lord Byron)
- Publisher
- Mark Gilroy Communications, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0972168222
- ISBN 13
- 9780972168229
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Literature
WF Sandercombe
Burlington, ON, Canada
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