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STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT PREMIUM COLLECTION: 20 SHORT STORIES & NOVELS + 37 POEMS ("The Devil and Daniel Webster”, “By the Waters of Babylon”, “The King of ... many more...)
This volume is the most complete collection of works by Stephen Vincent Benét in the market.
We have included 20 stories, including his novel “Young People’s Pride”; and the very famous short stories “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, “By the Waters of Babylon”, “The King of the Cats” and “The Sobbin' Women,” made into a film under the title Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in 1954.
We have also included 35 individual poems, divided in two books; as well as the book of poems “John Brown’s Body”, one of his most famous works and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 (included in Life Magazine's list as one of the 100 outstanding books of 1924-1944).
This is the list of short stories
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PART ONE
SHORT STORIES
Thirteen O' Stories of Several Worlds
1. THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER
2. DANIEL WEBSTER AND THE SEA SERPENT
3. BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
4. THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS
5. THE KING OF THE CATS
6. A STORY BY ANGELA POE
7. THE TREASURE OF VASCO GOMEZ
8. THE CURFEW TOLLS
9. THE SOBBIN' WOMEN
10. GLAMOUR
11. EVERYBODY WAS VERY NICE
12. A DEATH IN THE COUNTRY
13. BLOSSOM AND FRUIT
TALES BEFORE MIDNIGHT (1939)
14. JOHNNY PYE AND THE FOOL-KILLER
15. O'HALLORAN'S LUCK
16. JACOB AND THE INDIANS
17. THE DIE-HARD
18. DOC MELLHORN AND THE PEARLY GATES
19. THE STORY ABOUT THE ANTEATER
The following is the list of poems
JOHN BROWN'S BODY
YOUNG ADVENTURE
A Book of Poems
1. The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun
2. Rain after a Vaudeville Show
3. The City Revisited
4. Going Back to School
5. Nos Immortales
6. Young Blood
7. The Quality of Courage
8. Campus
9. Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua
10. The Breaking Point
11. Lonely Burial
12. Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room
13. The Hemp
14. Poor Devil!
15. Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum
16. The White Peacock
17. Colors
18. A Minor Poet
19. The Lover in Hell
20. Winged Man
21. Music
22. The Innovator
23. Love in Twilight
24. The Fiddling Wood
25. Portrait of a Boy
26. Portrait of a Baby
27. The General Public
28. Road and Hills
29. Elegy for an Enemy
NIGHTMARE AT NOON & OTHER POEMS
1. Nightmare At Noon
2. The Song.
3. Drinking the yellow wine!
4. And dear, forgotten Spring.
5. The Growing of the Hemp.
6. The Using of the Hemp.
7. The Mountain Whippoorwill
We have included 20 stories, including his novel “Young People’s Pride”; and the very famous short stories “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, “By the Waters of Babylon”, “The King of the Cats” and “The Sobbin' Women,” made into a film under the title Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in 1954.
We have also included 35 individual poems, divided in two books; as well as the book of poems “John Brown’s Body”, one of his most famous works and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 (included in Life Magazine's list as one of the 100 outstanding books of 1924-1944).
This is the list of short stories
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PART ONE
SHORT STORIES
Thirteen O' Stories of Several Worlds
1. THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER
2. DANIEL WEBSTER AND THE SEA SERPENT
3. BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
4. THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS
5. THE KING OF THE CATS
6. A STORY BY ANGELA POE
7. THE TREASURE OF VASCO GOMEZ
8. THE CURFEW TOLLS
9. THE SOBBIN' WOMEN
10. GLAMOUR
11. EVERYBODY WAS VERY NICE
12. A DEATH IN THE COUNTRY
13. BLOSSOM AND FRUIT
TALES BEFORE MIDNIGHT (1939)
14. JOHNNY PYE AND THE FOOL-KILLER
15. O'HALLORAN'S LUCK
16. JACOB AND THE INDIANS
17. THE DIE-HARD
18. DOC MELLHORN AND THE PEARLY GATES
19. THE STORY ABOUT THE ANTEATER
The following is the list of poems
JOHN BROWN'S BODY
YOUNG ADVENTURE
A Book of Poems
1. The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun
2. Rain after a Vaudeville Show
3. The City Revisited
4. Going Back to School
5. Nos Immortales
6. Young Blood
7. The Quality of Courage
8. Campus
9. Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua
10. The Breaking Point
11. Lonely Burial
12. Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room
13. The Hemp
14. Poor Devil!
15. Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum
16. The White Peacock
17. Colors
18. A Minor Poet
19. The Lover in Hell
20. Winged Man
21. Music
22. The Innovator
23. Love in Twilight
24. The Fiddling Wood
25. Portrait of a Boy
26. Portrait of a Baby
27. The General Public
28. Road and Hills
29. Elegy for an Enemy
NIGHTMARE AT NOON & OTHER POEMS
1. Nightmare At Noon
2. The Song.
3. Drinking the yellow wine!
4. And dear, forgotten Spring.
5. The Growing of the Hemp.
6. The Using of the Hemp.
7. The Mountain Whippoorwill
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First published November 8, 2014
About the author
Stephen Vincent Benét
335 books81 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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