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Ο Ντάνιελ Γουέμπστερ κι ο διάβολος
Το ποτήρι ξεχείλισε για τον Τζέιμπς Στόουν. «Ορκίζομαι», είπε, και κοίταξε ολόγυρα απελπισμένος, «ορκίζομαι ότι όλα αυτά φτάνουν για να σε κάνουν να θες να πουλήσεις την ψυχή σου στον Διάβολο! Κι εγώ θα την πουλούσα ευχαρίστως, για δυο δεκάρες!»
Το διήγημα δημοσιεύτηκε για πρώτη φορά στην εφημερίδα The Saturday Evening Post (24 Οκτωβρίου, 1936), κυκλοφόρησε σε μορφή βιβλίου την επόμενη χρονιά από τον εκδοτικό οίκο Farrar & Rinehart και απέσπασε το βραβείο O. Henry Award (βραβείο με το οποίο έχουν τιμηθεί επίσης οι Γουίλιαμ Φώκνερ, Τζον Τσίβερ, Ρέιμοντ Κάρβερ και άλλοι σπουδαίοι συγγραφείς).
Το 1941 μεταφέρθηκε στη μεγάλη οθόνη σε σκηνοθεσία του βραβευμένου με όσκαρ William Dieterle, με πρωταγωνιστές τους Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, James Craig, και Simone Simon.
Το διήγημα δημοσιεύτηκε για πρώτη φορά στην εφημερίδα The Saturday Evening Post (24 Οκτωβρίου, 1936), κυκλοφόρησε σε μορφή βιβλίου την επόμενη χρονιά από τον εκδοτικό οίκο Farrar & Rinehart και απέσπασε το βραβείο O. Henry Award (βραβείο με το οποίο έχουν τιμηθεί επίσης οι Γουίλιαμ Φώκνερ, Τζον Τσίβερ, Ρέιμοντ Κάρβερ και άλλοι σπουδαίοι συγγραφείς).
Το 1941 μεταφέρθηκε στη μεγάλη οθόνη σε σκηνοθεσία του βραβευμένου με όσκαρ William Dieterle, με πρωταγωνιστές τους Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, James Craig, και Simone Simon.
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About the author
Stephen Vincent Benét
291 books79 followersStephen Vincent Benét, best known brother of William Rose Benét, also wrote
John Brown's Body
, his narrative poem of Civil War, in 1928. See John Brown.
A mother bore Stephen Vincent Benét into a military family. His father and Laura Benét, his sibling, also widely appreciated literature.
Benét attended Yale University and published Five Men and Pompey in 1915 and The Drug-Shop , collection, in 1917. A year of military service interrupted his studies; he worked as a cipher clerk in the same department as James Grover Thurber. He submitted his third volume of in place of a thesis, and Yale graduated him in 1919.
Stephen Vincent Benét published The Beginning of Wisdom , his first novel, in 1921. Benét then moved to France to continue his studies at the Sorbonne and returned to the United States in 1923 with the Rosemary Carr, his new wife.
Benét succeeded in many different literary forms, which included novels, short stories, screenplays, radio broadcasts, and a libretto for an opera, which Douglas Moore based on "The Devil and Daniel Webster." For his most famous long work, which interweaves historical and fictional characters to relate important events, from the raid on Harper's Ferry to surrender of Robert Edward Lee at Appomattox, he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1929.
During lifetime, Benét received the story prize of O. Henry, the Roosevelt Medal, and a second Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for the posthumously-published Western Star, the first part of an epic, based on American history. At the age of 44 years, Benét suffered a heart attack and died in New York City.
A mother bore Stephen Vincent Benét into a military family. His father and Laura Benét, his sibling, also widely appreciated literature.
Benét attended Yale University and published Five Men and Pompey in 1915 and The Drug-Shop , collection, in 1917. A year of military service interrupted his studies; he worked as a cipher clerk in the same department as James Grover Thurber. He submitted his third volume of in place of a thesis, and Yale graduated him in 1919.
Stephen Vincent Benét published The Beginning of Wisdom , his first novel, in 1921. Benét then moved to France to continue his studies at the Sorbonne and returned to the United States in 1923 with the Rosemary Carr, his new wife.
Benét succeeded in many different literary forms, which included novels, short stories, screenplays, radio broadcasts, and a libretto for an opera, which Douglas Moore based on "The Devil and Daniel Webster." For his most famous long work, which interweaves historical and fictional characters to relate important events, from the raid on Harper's Ferry to surrender of Robert Edward Lee at Appomattox, he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1929.
During lifetime, Benét received the story prize of O. Henry, the Roosevelt Medal, and a second Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for the posthumously-published Western Star, the first part of an epic, based on American history. At the age of 44 years, Benét suffered a heart attack and died in New York City.
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