Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories Second Series

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

FOR those readers who have from early childhood been taught that the best things are the old things, it is oftentimes difficult to revert in imagination to the times when such classics as Paradise Lost, Pilgrims Progress, and Robinson Crusoe, new and unread, were just beginning to make their first tentative steps in the march toward the unknown and unseen goal of enduring fame. Yet the intrinsic literary worth of these classics was obviously just as firm in those far-off days of their initial appearance as in these present days of their acquired renown. But in these present days, with the improved printing-presses moving at high speed and pouring forth everywhere their improvident and unsifted store, the best is too liable to be lost within the swift current of a vast and turbid abundance. It is, therefore, worth while for usfor those of us who have an abiding love of literatureto endeavor to rescue and place in more permanent form the choicest bits of this modern efflux of writing, and make it easily available for a more leisurely and intelligent perusal. With this thought in mind, I have for several months been reading widely in the files of the Atlantic Monthly, with the idea of republishing the best of the recent stories in book form. A partial result of my labors is seen in Atlantic Narratives (First Series), published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in March of the current year. In selecting the twenty-three stories for that volume, I had the college student and the mature reader more definitely in mind. Some of these stories, accordingly, were perhaps a trifle too subtle and analytical for the younger student, though it is interesting to note that the volume immediately found an interested audience, not only among college students and the reading public, but also within the classrooms of some of our best schools and academies. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 40718
Author: Antin, Mary
Release Date: Sep 9, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Ashe, Elizabeth, Carman, Kathleen, Comer, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt), De la Roche, Mazo, 1879-1961, Donnell, Annie Hamilton, 1862-1943, Dunning, James Edmund, 1873-1931, Eastman, Rebecca Hooper, Ganoe, William Addleman, 1881-, Huffaker, Lucy, Husband, Joseph, 1885-1938, Kemper, S. H., Krysto, Christina, Mackubin, Ellen, -1915, Mirrielees, Edith Ronald, 1878-1962, Montague, Margaret Prescott, 1878-1955, Morlae, Edward, Nicholson, Meredith, 1866-1947, Norris, Kathleen Thompson, 1880-1966, Portor, Laura Spencer, Pratt, Lucy, Singmaster, Elsie, 1879-1958, Townsend, Charles Haskins, 1859-1944, Wyatt, Edith, 1873-1958
Editor: Thomas, Charles Swain, 1868-1943