Benediction " in GREAT MODERN CATHOLIC SHORT STORIES
by GABLE, Mariella (Editor), F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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About This Item
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo; xviii, 372 pages, beige cloth, heavily soiled. Surprisingly Scarce.
[ Unknown to Bruccoli's revised Fitzgerald bibliography ]. Note: each story preceded with a short Introduction by Gable, who was a Benedctine nun. Ten stories about nuns. The sacrifice of the maidens / Elizabeth Madox Roberts ; A nun's diary / Sister Mary Francis ; Fight for Sister Joe / Richard Coleman ; Sin / Agnes Repplier ; The surgeon and the nun / Paul Horgan ; A bountiful providence / A.W. Smith ; Taking the veil / Katherine Mansfield ; The gambler, the nun and the radio / Ernest Hemingway [ Hanneman E93 ] ; Jubilee at Baysweep / Richard Sullivan ; Thee saint / Antonia White -- Seven stories about monks. Brother Leo / Phyllis Bottome ; Benediction / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Reading in the refectory / Peter Whiffen ; Parish of cockroaches / Vincent McHugh ; Momento / John Conley ; Monks die good / Jack English ; The outsider / Phyllis Bottome --
Nine stories about priests. First confession / Frank O'Connor ; The young priest / Morley Callaghan ; The salvation of Pisco Gabar / Geoffrey Household ; Gala night / Winifred Williams ; A predicament / Morley Callaghan ; A broken world / Sean O'Faolain ; The English captain / L.A.G. Strong ; How still we see / Robert Buckner ; A sick call / Morley Callaghan.
[ Unknown to Bruccoli's revised Fitzgerald bibliography ]. Note: each story preceded with a short Introduction by Gable, who was a Benedctine nun. Ten stories about nuns. The sacrifice of the maidens / Elizabeth Madox Roberts ; A nun's diary / Sister Mary Francis ; Fight for Sister Joe / Richard Coleman ; Sin / Agnes Repplier ; The surgeon and the nun / Paul Horgan ; A bountiful providence / A.W. Smith ; Taking the veil / Katherine Mansfield ; The gambler, the nun and the radio / Ernest Hemingway [ Hanneman E93 ] ; Jubilee at Baysweep / Richard Sullivan ; Thee saint / Antonia White -- Seven stories about monks. Brother Leo / Phyllis Bottome ; Benediction / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Reading in the refectory / Peter Whiffen ; Parish of cockroaches / Vincent McHugh ; Momento / John Conley ; Monks die good / Jack English ; The outsider / Phyllis Bottome --
Nine stories about priests. First confession / Frank O'Connor ; The young priest / Morley Callaghan ; The salvation of Pisco Gabar / Geoffrey Household ; Gala night / Winifred Williams ; A predicament / Morley Callaghan ; A broken world / Sean O'Faolain ; The English captain / L.A.G. Strong ; How still we see / Robert Buckner ; A sick call / Morley Callaghan.
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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2021799
- Title
- Benediction " in GREAT MODERN CATHOLIC SHORT STORIES
- Author
- GABLE, Mariella (Editor), F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sheed & Ward
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- f. scott fitzgerald roman catholics short stories nuns ernest hemingway
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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