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Fireside reader; an assortment of stories, nonfiction, and verses chosen especially for reading aloud. Cover Image Book Book

Fireside reader an assortment of stories, nonfiction, and verses chosen especially for reading aloud

Contents:

The television helps, but not very much / John McNulty
The death of Captain Waskow / Ernie Pyle
A work of art / Anton Chekhov
Pericles' funeral oration / Thucydides
Outer Baldonia vs. Soviet Russia / William Bancroft Mellor
The heart of a hunter / Robert C. Ruark
The secret of General Della Rovere / Indro Montanelli
The fifty-first dragon / Heywood Broun
The night before the longest day / Cornelius Ryan
The convict and the bishop / Victor Hugo
Small-town parade, Decoration Day / Phyllis McGinley
Pink ties / Alexander King
A love affair with life / Clifton Fadiman
Pale blue nightgown / Louis Golding
I admire the human race / Roger William Riis
The heroic ride of Caesar Rodney / Lester David
The wit of Oscar Wilde / Oscar Wilde
Why Verdun still stands / Jules Romains
The great grippe mystery / Shirley Jackson
The death of Socrates / Plato
Amazing lady / Cyril Hare
October has come again / Thomas Wolfe
Slurvian self-taught / John Davenport
"
Let the bridges fall down!"
/ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The monster / Deems Taylor
Private Hackleford's big toe / Edmund Love
American names / Stephen Vincent Benét
The halls of Montezuma / William H. Prescott
The treasurer's report / Robert Benchley
The spell / Arthur Gordon
F.D.R. and the great sprout crisis / Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt
Our lady's juggler / Anatole France
The whistle / Benjamin Franklin
Lincoln pardons a sleeping sentinel / L.E. Chittenden
Harpist on horseback / Hilda Cole Espy
An undesired rendezvous / Ernest K. Gann
Mr. Theodore Castwell / G.E.M. Skues
She did not know how to be famous / Clifton Fadiman
The pearl of love / H.G. Wells
The day Grant saluted Lee / General Horace Porter
The open window / Saki
Armina Evans Avery / George R. Leighton
Every day is Monday / Ogden Nash
The campers at Kitty Hawk / John Dos Passos
High pasture / Sandy Stuart
The lottery ticket / Anton Chekhov
The standard of living / Dorothy Parker
Vision of America / Through the eyes of its Presidents
The nightmare cannon / Victor Hugo
The last day of the Alamo / Lon Tinkle
"
Yes, your Honesty!"
/ George and Helen Papashvily
The very foreign ambassadors / Walter Bastian
The hack driver / Sinclair Lewis
For us, the living / Alexander Woollcott
The brass cannon / Robert Benchley
The chaser / John Collier
My financial career / Stephen Leacock.

Item details

  • Physical Description: 349 pages 22 cm
    print
  • Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster, 1961.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:
The television helps, but not very much / John McNulty
The death of Captain Waskow / Ernie Pyle
A work of art / Anton Chekhov
Pericles' funeral oration / Thucydides
Outer Baldonia vs. Soviet Russia / William Bancroft Mellor
The heart of a hunter / Robert C. Ruark
The secret of General Della Rovere / Indro Montanelli
The fifty-first dragon / Heywood Broun
The night before the longest day / Cornelius Ryan
The convict and the bishop / Victor Hugo
Small-town parade, Decoration Day / Phyllis McGinley
Pink ties / Alexander King
A love affair with life / Clifton Fadiman
Pale blue nightgown / Louis Golding
I admire the human race / Roger William Riis
The heroic ride of Caesar Rodney / Lester David
The wit of Oscar Wilde / Oscar Wilde
Why Verdun still stands / Jules Romains
The great grippe mystery / Shirley Jackson
The death of Socrates / Plato
Amazing lady / Cyril Hare
October has come again / Thomas Wolfe
Slurvian self-taught / John Davenport
"Let the bridges fall down!" / Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The monster / Deems Taylor
Private Hackleford's big toe / Edmund Love
American names / Stephen Vincent Benét
The halls of Montezuma / William H. Prescott
The treasurer's report / Robert Benchley
The spell / Arthur Gordon
F.D.R. and the great sprout crisis / Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt
Our lady's juggler / Anatole France
The whistle / Benjamin Franklin
Lincoln pardons a sleeping sentinel / L.E. Chittenden
Harpist on horseback / Hilda Cole Espy
An undesired rendezvous / Ernest K. Gann
Mr. Theodore Castwell / G.E.M. Skues
She did not know how to be famous / Clifton Fadiman
The pearl of love / H.G. Wells
The day Grant saluted Lee / General Horace Porter
The open window / Saki
Armina Evans Avery / George R. Leighton
Every day is Monday / Ogden Nash
The campers at Kitty Hawk / John Dos Passos
High pasture / Sandy Stuart
The lottery ticket / Anton Chekhov
The standard of living / Dorothy Parker
Vision of America / Through the eyes of its Presidents
The nightmare cannon / Victor Hugo
The last day of the Alamo / Lon Tinkle
"Yes, your Honesty!" / George and Helen Papashvily
The very foreign ambassadors / Walter Bastian
The hack driver / Sinclair Lewis
For us, the living / Alexander Woollcott
The brass cannon / Robert Benchley
The chaser / John Collier
My financial career / Stephen Leacock.
Subject: American literature
American literature

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