Read With Me by Thomas B Costain

Description: just some of the stories included...1 The Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett - This is a film I had tangentially come across in articles featuring Sidney Poitier, books on film, and in snippets of old Oscars shows. 2 Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer by Stephen Vincent Benet - This Mr Smith Goes to Washington/The Seventh Seal hybrid appealed to generations of readers before me.3 A Portrait Reversed by George Bradshaw - A story after my own heart. Which palpitates and pines for the short stories of Somerset Maugham. The intimate, fly-on-the wall first person narrative, the locale, the eccentric subject artiste4 The King of Paris Dies by Guy Endore - A short, fictional bio on Alexander Dumas, pere. The man who gave us The Count of Monte Cristo. And sage aphorisms like this: "Oblivion is the shroud in which the dead are buried for the second time." 5 The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico - Set against the backdrop that was Dunkirk is this footnote of a story about a hermetic artist, a little girl, and a migratory goose. Broken in body and spirit, their need for healing is palpable. 6 Mooltiki by Rumer Godden - I've only read one of Rumer Godden's books, Black Narcissus, about English nuns stationed at a nunnery in the Himalayas; it was made into a movie which starred the always ethereal Deborah Kerr. Reading my old review of the book now, I see I gave it three stars plus an impertinent potshot, and one I'm likely to disagree with now: Rumer Godden is certainly no Pearl S. Buck. Mooltiki is written in the first person, which always gives me the impression the account is factual. Godden writes about a foray into the Assamese jungle on the borders of Bhutan and India, where she becomes fascinated with a young, headstrong elephant named Mooltiki. 7 Miracle of the Fifteen Murders by Ben Hecht - An intriguing tale with a very interesting premise involving a doctors' conference with an unlikely agenda. 8 Lobo by MacKinlay Kantor - Dog stories like Lobo should really come with warning labels: 9 Ask Me No Questions by Mary McCarthy - Sister to the actor Kevin McCarthy, Mary McCarthy writes about life in retrospect with the maternal grandmother who raised her--a complicated character more ideal for fiction. McCarthy writes with clarity and grit. 10 The Sun-Dodgers by John O'Hara - A short, engaging story about journalists, chorus girls, and upper and lower echelon gangsters in their watering holes. By the writer of BUtterfield 8.11 Clothe the Naked by Dorothy Parker - The only story which I have read before, and one of the most heart-wrenching in the batch. 12 They Trample on Your Heart by Katherine Anne Porter - The mechanics of a friendship between a slave owner-turned-employer and her lave-turned-employee. 13 The Other Place by J. B. Priestley - This story of a doorway into another dimension smacks of H.G. Wells. And Daphne du Maurier's The House on the Strand. 14 Johnny One-Eye by Damon Runyon - A tale of a hardened gangster with a heart for helpless kittens, children, and single mothers who shack up with hardened gangsters. 15 The Proud Old Name by C. E. Scoggins - A western tale about pardnerships--in business and amor. 16 Dawn by Eli Wiesel - A gripping, tense few hours in the life of a Jewish terrorist on his (first) mission to execute an English subject. 17 The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. Wodehouse - Wodehouse's take on the benefits of golf clubs over literary clubs.18 The Legacy by Virginia Woolf - Neat short storytelling. I've been collecting comics DVDs and books for over 30 yearsand it's time to clean out my attic! Please subscribe to my newsletter so you're aware of my new postings. My main goal is to clear out space so I can actually enjoy my collection and make a few bucks. I'm pretty flexible. I have a solid reputation on eBay and hope to continue to build upon it.The More you buy the more I'm willing to make a deal to get rid of my extra collection!Sorry, no international shipping. (Unless you have a USA shipping address)I ship Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays before workbought used $25.00

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