Best of
20th-Century

1918

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen


Wilfred Owen - 1918
    By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered to be the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owen's papers in the British Museum and other archives.

Hell Screen


Ryūnosuke Akutagawa - 1918
    Shaw

Indian Summer of a Forsyte


John Galsworthy - 1918
    This attachment gives Old Jolyon pleasure, but exhausts his strength. He leaves Irene money in his will with Young Jolyon, his son, as trustee. In the end Old Jolyon dies under an ancient oak tree in the garden of the Robin Hill house.

The Epistle to the Romans


Karl Barth - 1918
    Barth--who remains a powerful influence on European and American theology--argues that the modern Christian preacher and theologian face thesame basic problems that confronted Paul. Assessing the whole Protestant argument in relation to modern attitudes and problems, he focuses on topics such as Biblical exegesis; the interrelationship between theology, the Church, and religious experience; the relevance of the truth of the Bible toculture; and what preachers should preach.

The Spider's Thread


Ryūnosuke Akutagawa - 1918
    

Lone Bull's Mistake: A Lodge Pole Chief Story


James Willard Schultz - 1918
    Schultz's Indian stories. It is the story of an Indian "man without a country." It tells of the adventures of a rebellious Blackfoot Indian and his family after his punishment for a breach of the tribe's hunting laws. It is the account of the wanderings and misfortunes of a Blackfoot Indian who rebels at the tribal hunting laws and with his family leaves the camp of his people. The family wander homeless from tribe to tribe until the man's better nature asserts itself and he rejoins his people when an opportunity comes to save them from an enemy. The author is one of our most famous old-time frontiersmen and Indian fighters, and an Indian by adoption into the Blackfoot tribe.

The Last Days of Mankind


Karl Kraus - 1918
    Kraus began to write the play in 1915 and first published it as a series of special Fackel issues in 1919. Its epilogue, "Die letzte Nacht" ("The last night") had already been published in 1918 as a special issue.This edition was abridged and edited by Frederick Ungar. It contains an introduction by the editor and critical analysis by Franz H. Mautner.

Counter-Attack and Other Poems


Siegfried Sassoon - 1918
    The book has no illustrations or index.

Oh Money! Money!


Eleanor H. Porter - 1918
    Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Amazing Interlude


Mary Roberts Rinehart - 1918
    A sort of fairyland transformation takes place. Beyond the once solid wall strange figures move on -- a new mise en scene, with the old blotted out in darkness. The lady, whom we left knitting by the fire, becomes a fairy -- Sara Lee became a fairy, of a sort -- and meets the prince. Adventure, too; and love, of course. And then the lights go out, and it is the same old back drop again, and the lady is back by the fire -- but with a memory. This is the story of Sara Lee Kennedy's memory -- and of something more. . . .

The Penal Colony and Other Stories


Franz Kafka - 1918
    First published in 1948 by Schocken Books, this volume includes all the works Kafka intended for publication, and published during his lifetime (the only exception in The Stoker which serves as a first chapter for the novel Amerika). It also includes critical pieces by Kafka, "The First Long Train Journey" by Kafka and Brod (which was initially intended to be the first chapter of a book), and an Epilogue by Brod. This collection was translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.

The Fugitive


Rabindranath Tagore - 1918
    He developed a following for his work in Bengali, but he became a worldwide sensation after the English translation of his poem Gitanjali caught the attention of W.B. Yeats. He toured the world and became known for his spiritual and artistic presence and global views that bridged the East and West. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, the first non-Western writer to achieve such an honor. In addition to poetry, Tagore also wrote short stories, plays, novels, and essays, and many of his paintings hang in museums. He also founded a school, Visva Bharati, which combined Hindu and Western influences. Tagore loved music, and two of his songs became the national anthems for India and Bangladesh. The Fugitive is one example of his artistic powers: We came hither together, friend, and now at the cross-roads I stop to bid you farewell. Your path is wide and straight before you, but my call comes up by ways from the unknown. I shall follow wind and cloud; I shall follow the stars to where day breaks behind the hills; I shall follow lovers who, as they walk, twine their days into a wreath on a single thread of song, "I love."

Tenting To-Night


Mary Roberts Rinehart - 1918
    Tag along with Mary Roberts Rinehart on her camping trips through Glacier and the North Cascades national parks in 1916.

Black Opal


Katharine Susannah Prichard - 1918
    It has the magic of that most mysterious and beautiful of all gems which is a symbol of Australia. Sparks of fiery radiance, in humour, courage, passion and comradeship, are struck from a sombre background in which the love of Sophie and Potch survives with tender realism, and the gallant struggle of Michael for an ideal, lights the way to triumph over life's tragedies.

On the Hill of Roses


Stefan Grabiński - 1918
    Thankfully, with the publication of The Dark Domain in 1994, new blooms of acolytes have sprung up to champion his cause both in Poland and elsewhere.We at Hieroglyphic believe that his work forms an important thematic bridge between European Symbolists such De L'Isle-Adam and English language writers of metaphysical fiction such as Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen. As such we are very proud to announce what we hope to be the first in a series of translations.To begin this parade of letters we present On the Hill of Roses . Originally published in 1919 it was Grabinski's first collection under his own name and served as the official start of his arduous search for artistic recognition. Nearly a hundred years later these pieces stand as testament to their author's talent and on-going literary quest for the bizarre: in The Frenzied Farmhouse we witness the effect of a malignant anima mundi, Strabismus explores the conflict of beings over corporal identity while in the title story, On the Hill of Roses , the Decadents fascination with synthesia is used to unveil a tragic history.CONTENTS:Foreword by Mark SamuelsIntroduction by Miroslaw LipinskiOn the Hill of RosesThe Frenzied FarmhouseOn a TangentStrabismusShadowAt the Villa by the SeaProjections

Towards the Definition of Philosophy


Martin Heidegger - 1918
    The volume also includes a short glossary.

Skyrider


B.M. Bower - 1918
    It's an engrossing ranch story with a new note of interest woven into its breezy texture.The novel THE THUNDER BIRD follows this.