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