This is my best - over 150 self-chosen and complete masterpieces (Literature Art).pdf

The Dial press | Pdf | Eng | 1942 | 1208 Pages | 125 MB

Over 150 self-chosen and complete masterpieces, together with their reasons for their selections by America's 93 Greatest Living Authors.

IN THIS book ninety-three American authors have chosen the particular work of their own that is closest to their heart. Thus while This Is My Best is an anthology, it is more than the simple personal preference of any one man, which is the usual anthology —it is a book by the leading living authors in America, each one of whom has, in a sense, "edited" his entire lifetime output to select the one unit which in his own, uninfluenced opinion represents him at his best creative moment. It is a book without precedent in America: a book composed over many years, the focussing of many lifetime viewpoints, a public revelation of the private opinions of our best authors on how they look upon themselves, and what, in their writings, they most value