Benediction " in GREAT MODERN CATHOLIC SHORT STORIES

by GABLE, Mariella (Editor), F. Scott Fitzgerald

$40 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo; xviii, 372 pages, beige cloth, heavily soiled. Surprisingly Scarce. [ Unknown to Bruccoli's revised Fitzgerald bibliography ]. Note: each story preceded with a short Introduction by Gable, who was a Benedctine nun. Ten stories about nuns. The sacrifice of the maidens / Elizabeth Madox Roberts ; A nun's diary / Sister Mary Francis ; Fight for Sister Joe / Richard Coleman ; Sin / Agnes Repplier ; The surgeon and the nun / Paul Horgan ; A bountiful providence / A.W. Smith ; Taking the veil / Katherine Mansfield ; The gambler, the nun and the radio / Ernest Hemingway [ Hanneman E93 ] ; Jubilee at Baysweep / Richard Sullivan ; Thee saint / Antonia White -- Seven stories about monks. Brother Leo / Phyllis Bottome ; Benediction / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Reading in the refectory / Peter Whiffen ; Parish of cockroaches / Vincent McHugh ; Momento / John Conley ; Monks die good / Jack English ; The outsider / Phyllis Bottome -- Nine stories about priests. First confession / Frank O'Connor ; The young priest / Morley Callaghan ; The salvation of Pisco Gabar / Geoffrey Household ; Gala night / Winifred Williams ; A predicament / Morley Callaghan ; A broken world / Sean O'Faolain ; The English captain / L.A.G. Strong ; How still we see / Robert Buckner ; A sick call / Morley Callaghan.

• Publisher: Sheed & Ward
• Year: 1942
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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