Pause to wonder / edited by Marjorie Fischer and Rolfe Humphries.
| Other author | Fischer, Marjorie. |
| Other author | Humphries, Rolfe. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Garden City, N.Y. : Sun Dial Press, [1947] |
| Description | xix, 572 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: possibility of pleasure -- Reason / Ralph Hodgson -- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf -- The philosophy of relative existence / Frank R. Stockton -- Birth / Liam O'Flaherty -- The curious case of Benjamin Button / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Strong by quirky / Irwin Shapiro -- The man that stopped / Frank O'Connor -- A man and his boots / W. B. Yeats -- Off the ground / Walter De La Mare -- The time of true Thomas / John Buchan -- The haunted man / Ralph Bates -- A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce -- The bowmen / Arthur Machen -- Before the battle at Lake Trasimenus / Livy -- Private Martin Passy / William March -- Ballaf of the buried sword / Ernest Rhys -- The perfect game / G.K. Chesterton -- The Canterville ghost / Oscar Wilde -- The rival beauties / W.W. Jacobs -- The dong with the luminous nose / Edward Lear -- The transferred ghost / Frank R. Stockton -- A beautiful maiden / Charles Erskine Scott Wood -- An imperfect conflagaration / Ambrose Bierce -- The phanton fence rider of Sam Miguel / Henry Yelvington -- Old Christmas / Roy Helton -- The real right thing / Henry James -- The quick and the dead / Finley Peter Dunne -- Lady into fox / David Garnett -- Charley Lambert / J. M. Synge -- The bold dragon / Washington Irving -- The vixen / Wilifrid Wilson Gilbert -- A blazing starre seene in the west / D. H. Lawrence -- Dionysus and the pard / Georffrey Household -- Story og Pygmalion / Ovid --The casher / John Collier -- King Cheop's daughter / Herodotus -- Nelly trim / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- The story of the siren / E.M. Forster -- The unicorn in the garner / James Thurber -- Moung Shasta / Charles Erskine Scott Wood -- The wisdom of the king / W.B. Yeats -- Oprheus and Eurydice / Vigil -- A true account / Cotton Mather -- The witch of Coos / Robert Frost -- Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven / Mark Twain -- Colonel Sterett relates marvels / Alfred Henry Lewis -- A true story / Lucian -- Macavity: the mystery cat / T.S. Eliot -- Private Roger Jones / William March -- Tall tales of g.i.s / Sergeant Bill Davidson -- The elks / Julius Casear -- Sacre du Printemps / Ludwig Bemelmans -- The elf in Algiers / John Steinback -- Lord deliver us / Donald Cowie -- The voice of God / Winifred Holtby -- The judgement seat / W. Someset Maughan -- The sensitive goldfish / Christina Stead -- Panic / Orson Welles -- The soul of Laploshka / H. H. Munro ("Saki") -- "No trouble at all" / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Welsh incident / Robert Graves --The angry street: a bad dream / G.K. Chesterton -- Artist unknown / Heywood Broun -- The miracle of St. Scothinus -- The saint / Antonia White -- The silence of God / Osbert Sitwell -- A miracle of St. Goar -- Building the burch / J.M. Synge -- Private Edward Romano / William March -- Blessed Patrick of the bells / Lady Gregory -- How caedmon learned to sing / Bede -- King O'Toole and St. Kevin / Samuel Lover -- The man who could work miracles / H.G. Wells -- A shepherd and a shepherdess / Elizabeth Goudge -- The case of Prometheus / Max Beerbohm -- The road of Colonus / E.M. Forster -- Mr. Valiant summoned / John Bunyan -- Philemon and Bauvis / Ovid -- The fairy goose / Liam O'Flaherty -- The passing strange / John Masefield -- |
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| General note | At head of title: Stories of the marvelous, mysterious and strange. |
| General note | "Reprint edition." |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Schlobin copy Gift of Roger Schlobin, 2004 |
| LCCN | 47023360 |