Isbn: 9781440151514 - the lost algonquin round table: humor, fiction, journalism, criticism and poetry from america's most famous literary circle (3 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Legendary Writers of the Vicious Circle Collected Together For the First Time The Algonquin was a refuge for the brightest authors, editors, critics, columnists, artists, financiers, composers, directors, producers and actors of the times. The dining-room corner was a hot bed of raconteurs and conversationalists. -Harpo Marx In Jazz Age New York City, no literary lights burned more brightly than those of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. Now between covers for the first time is a collection of writing by 16 members of the group, an all-star gathering that took 90 years to come together. Many of these pieces have never been published before; plucked from private family collections and lost pieces from obscure periodicals. ● Humor pieces by Robert Benchley, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun, Frank Sullivan and Donald Ogden Stewart. ● Criticism from Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman and Robert E. Sherwood. ● Short fiction by Laurence Stallings and Pulitzer Prize-winners Edna Ferber and Margaret Leech. ● Journalism from Alexander Woollcott, Ruth Hale and Deems Taylor. ● Poetry by Adams, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker and John V. A. Weaver. With a foreword by Nat Benchley.…

Zustand: New. In English.