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Leo Hamalian (1920–2003)

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Tekijän teokset

The Existential Imagination (1963) 152 kappaletta
Great Stories by Nobel Prize Winners (1959) — Toimittaja — 77 kappaletta
Seven Short Novel Masterpieces (1961) 60 kappaletta
Eleven Modern Short Novels (1970) — Editor & Commentaries — 49 kappaletta
Pulitzer Prize Reader (1961) — Toimittaja — 27 kappaletta
Ten Modern Short Novels (1958) — Editor & Commentaries — 26 kappaletta
Short fiction of the masters (1962) 22 kappaletta
Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance 1920-1940 (1996) — Toimittaja — 17 kappaletta
New writing from the Middle East (1978) 14 kappaletta
The shape of fiction; British and American short stories (1978) — Toimittaja — 13 kappaletta

Associated Works

Ajattelun ja toiminnan kieli (1939) — Avustaja, eräät painokset939 kappaletta
Madness in the Family (1988) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset47 kappaletta
Solo: Women on Woman Alone (1977) — Toimittaja — 23 kappaletta

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Collection of modern (at least as of 1973) literature is worth perusing, but, to me, doesn't have the same fascination as looking through collections of older authors.
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datrappert | Oct 22, 2016 |
Leo Hamalian has gathered the narratives of 17 18th and 19th Century Western Women as they traveled different parts of the globe - Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and Africa. Women like Mary Wollstonecraft as she discovered sauna baths in Finland, Margaret Fuller as she reported on a rebellion against the Pope in Rome, Isabella Bird as she discovered the little-known Ainu culture of Japan, and Mary Kingsley as she traveled through West Africa collecting specimens of fish, observing the flora and fauna, observing the peoples, and experiencing harrowing encounters with crocodiles, hippopotami, and leopards.

This is exactly the kind of travel writing that appeals to me. I am moved and inspired by the courageous, independent women who pushed back the restraints of societal boundaries, and I am awed by the reminder of a time when the world was so huge, thrilling, exotic so full of wonder, and yet so harsh and dangerous.

I LOVED this book so much! I have a couple of similar titles, and I'm going to be happily delving into them next!
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bookwoman247 | Sep 29, 2010 |
An excellent collection of short stories by 26 Nobel Prize Winners selected from among their finest work in this format. I found it a highly readable and enjoyable way to be introduced to the writings of some previously obscure (at least to me) literary greats such as Bjornsterne Bjornsen, Maurice Maeterlink, Gerhart Hauptmann, Wladyslaw Reymont, Roger Martin du Gard and Johannes V. Jensen. It was also my first time to read something by Anatole France, Grazia Deledda, Luigi Pirandello, and Par Lagerkvist. According to the editors, the stories were chosen to represent the literary style of the period in which the author wrote, and thus overall traces the shift in style over some 60-year period. Some featured stories are now not easily accessible.

It's interesting to note that the stories by the earlier winners (except Rudyard Kipling) had a dominantly religious theme to them -- of poor individuals or communities of people with simple yet profound faith, and an almost mystic quality attributed to nature. The mood is mostly melancholic, the struggle to live hard and sometimes futile or violent. The later writers wrote on more varied subjects, and humour starts to peep through some of the writing. I found most memorable the following stories: The Procurator of Judea by Anatole France, The Crucifixion of the Outcast by William Butler Yeats, The Massacre of the Innocents by Maurice Maeterlinck, and The Guest by Albert Camus. Highly recommended.
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deebee1 | Feb 9, 2010 |
These tend towards the bleak and existential, which isn't what I usually look for in novels, but I liked a good deal of these. I found Wright's "The Man who Lived Underground" the best of the lot (a very intense sensory experience addressing racial issues and those of humanity in general with manic intelligence and desperate fire), closely followed by Mann's "Mario and the Magician" (a smashing political allegory), Konrad's classic "Heart of Darkness" and Kafka's classic "Metamorphosis". Camus' "The Stranger" is the weakest (very unconvincing moral discussion). Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo's "Abel Sanchez" kicks itself, that is, fails to deliver the philosophical punch. One thinks, at the end, reading the commentary, "THAT's what he intended?!" Henry James' "Beast in the Jungle" has a very interesting premise to recommend it, but it's far from his best. "The Death of Ivan Illytch" was, I suspect, poorly translated here. It reads very blandly and the climax doesn't make much of a sound.… (lisätietoja)
 
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Edmond L. Volpe Editor & Commentaries, Editor
Thomas Mann Contributor
Albert Camus Contributor
William Faulkner Contributor
Leo Tolstoy Contributor
Henry James Contributor
Franz Kafka Contributor
Alberto Moravia Contributor
Joseph Conrad Contributor
Wladyslaw Reymont Contributor
Grazia Deledda Contributor
Henrik Pontoppidan Contributor
Johannes V. Jensen Contributor
Herman Hesse Contributor
Ivan Bunin Contributor
François Mauriac Contributor
Luigi Pirandello Contributor
Rudyard Kipling Contributor
Haldor Laxness Contributor
Sinclair Lewis Contributor
Knut Hamsun Contributor
Gerhart Hauptmann Contributor
Boris Pasternak Contributor
Anatole France Contributor
Pär Lagerkvist Contributor
Selma Lagerlof Contributor
Voltaire Contributor
D. H. Lawrence Contributor
Herman Melville Contributor
Ivan Turgenev Contributor
Richard Wright Contributor
André Gide Contributor
Joseph S Mitchell Contributor
Willis Richardson Contributor
Shirley Graham Contributor
André Gide Contributor
Leonid Andreyev Contributor
Miguel de Unamuno Contributor
Mercedes Gilbert Contributor
Ralf M. Coleman Contributor
Andrew M Burris Contributor
Alvira Hazzard Contributor
George S. Schuyler Contributor
Langston Hughes Contributor
John F. Matheus Contributor
Conrad Seiler Contributor
Robert J. Clements Introduction
Zora Neale Hurston Contributor
George A. Towns Contributor
Jodie Edwards Contributor
May Miller Contributor
Abram Hill Contributor
Mary P. Burrill Contributor
Susie Edwards Contributor

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600
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