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American nights entertainment — Grant M. Overton

American nights entertainment

Grant M. Overton

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 317 pages

American Nights Entertainment is a 1923 collection of essays by Grant M. Overton about books and authors, written for readers and booksellers. It offers a warm, informed tour of the literary world and the people who make and sell books, appealing to anyone curious about early twentieth-century reading culture.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. American Nights Entertainment
  2. 2. The Magic Carpet
  3. 3. A Breathless Chapter
  4. 4. In the Kingdom of Conrad
  5. 5. The Documents in the Case of Arthur Train
  6. 6. The Lady of a Tradition, Miss Sackville-West
  7. 7. Harold Bell Wright
  8. 8. “Ah, Did You Once See Shelley Plain?”
  9. 9. Alice in Authorland and Penrod’s Five-Foot Shelf
  10. 10. The Man Called Ralph Connor
  11. II. Here, There and Everywhere
  12. 12. Totalling Mr. Tarkington
  13. 13. A Parody Outline of Stewart
  14. 14. Miss Zona Gale
  15. 15. For the Literary Investor
  16. 16. Naturalist vs. Novelist: Gene Stratton-Porter
  17. 17. Poetry and Plays
  18. 18. Lost Patterns
  19. 19. Joseph C. Lincoln Discovers Cape Cod
  20. 20. Edith Wharton and the Time Spirit
  21. 21. The Unclassified Case of Christopher Morley
  22. 22. The Prophecies of Lothrop Stoddard
  23. INDEX
  24. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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