This is My Best

Fülszöveg

THIS
IS
MY BEST
L\ THE THIRD QUARTER
OF THE CENTURY
Edited by
WHIT BURNETT
Here, in the same unique format which
made This Is My Best the popular, many-
edition milestone of American writing of
its generation, is This Is My Best: In the
Third Quarter of the Century, a brilliant
assemblage of eighty-five of the greatest
living authors of America.
Thirteen groups of distinguished evalu-
ators nominated the authors for this book.
Sixty-three of the eighty-five authors have
come into prominence since 1942 when
the original This Is My Best was pub-
lished. And, here are twenty-two of Amer-
ica's all-time greats whose work appears
both in This Is My Best of 1942 and in
This Is My Best: In the Third Quarter
of the Century—Conrad Aiken, Pearl
Buck, Erskine Caldwell, John Dos Passos,
James T. Farrell, John Gunther, Joseph
(continued from front flap)
Wood Krutch, Archibald MacLeish, Mari-
anne Moore, Ogden Nash, Allan Nevins,
S. J. Perelman, Katherine Anne... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THIS
IS
MY BEST
L\ THE THIRD QUARTER
OF THE CENTURY
Edited by
WHIT BURNETT
Here, in the same unique format which
made This Is My Best the popular, many-
edition milestone of American writing of
its generation, is This Is My Best: In the
Third Quarter of the Century, a brilliant
assemblage of eighty-five of the greatest
living authors of America.
Thirteen groups of distinguished evalu-
ators nominated the authors for this book.
Sixty-three of the eighty-five authors have
come into prominence since 1942 when
the original This Is My Best was pub-
lished. And, here are twenty-two of Amer-
ica's all-time greats whose work appears
both in This Is My Best of 1942 and in
This Is My Best: In the Third Quarter
of the Century—Conrad Aiken, Pearl
Buck, Erskine Caldwell, John Dos Passos,
James T. Farrell, John Gunther, Joseph
(continued from front flap)
Wood Krutch, Archibald MacLeish, Mari-
anne Moore, Ogden Nash, Allan Nevins,
S. J. Perelman, Katherine Anne Porter,
Ezra Pound, William Saroyan, William L.
Shirer, John Steinbeck, Jesse Stuart, Mark
Van Dor en, Robert Penn Warren, E. B.
White, and Thornton Wilder.
What makes This Is My Best unique is
not only the months of balloting by which
the contributors were nominated but also
tire fact that each of these eighty-five
authors then made his own choice of what
he considers his best work, and for This
Is My Best he has written his reasons why
he chose it.
This Is My Best: In the Third Quarter
of the Century is a treasury of wide-rang-
ing reading pleasure and a reference book
for a permanent library, containing full
author biographies and complete bibliog-
raphies of all their published works. Vissza