MODERN ENGLISH PROSE - Second Series (1946) - Edited by Guy Boas, M.A.

MODERN ENGLISH PROSE - Second Series - Edited by Guy Boas M.A.
A wonderful collection of 23 short prose pieces by authors of the likes of Aldous Huxley and W. Somerset Maugham and Winston Churchill amongst others in a 1946 MacMillan edition of THE SCHOLAR'S LIBRARY.
Year: 1946
Pages: 236
Dimensions: 17,5 cm X 11,6 cm
VERY GOOD CONDITION
Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine
CONTENTS
TRAVEL
Birth of a Cloud Sagittarius Risitig Cecil Lewis
Men and the Mountain The Times Anonymous  
The Country Rotunda Aldous Huxley
A Motor Drive in the U.S.A. A Visit to America A. G. Macdonell
Moscow First Russia, Then Tibet Robert Byron
At a Spanish Parador Marching Spain V. S. Pritchett
On the Mystical nature of the Passport Punch A. P. Herbert
 
FICTION
The Verger W. Somerset Maugham
The High Lama  James Hilton
Orpheus and Bones of Contention- Frank  O’Connor
Greater London They Walk in the City J. B. Priestley
A Gangster’s Funeral Juan in America Eric Linklater
The Tunnel' The Fomtain punch Charles Morgan
Example of Modern Science
 
ESSAYS AND STUDIES
A Modern Ballad Introduction to Modern Poetry Martin Gilkes
Caesar’s Death Julius Caesar John Buchan
New Ways of Stamp Collecting Stanley Phillips Collecting Stamps
Penguins The Polar Regions Frank Debenham
Sir Walter Scott Speeches of Lord Birkenhead Lord Birkenhead
Characteristics of Wagner’s music Richard Wagner Sir Henry Hadow
The President de Brosses Portraits in Miniature Lytton Strachey
Lawrence of Arabia Great Contempo- raries Winston Churchill
Einstein The harvest of victory Esme Wingfield-Stratford
 
Notes
 
Essay Questions