A Soldier’s Reader -1943
“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts."- Clarence Day
A Soldier's Reader, George Macy, Editor, The Heritage Press, 1943. 751 pages. Description: Book was written for soldiers to take with them and is a smaller format featuring olive-drab green cloth boards and gold lettering to spine only, green endpapers that carry a quotation by Clarence Day. 1
Features the first book appearances of
John Cheever's, Sargeant Limeburner,
James Thurber's, The Secret Life of Walter Mitt
H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds and stories by Jack London, O. Henry, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis and Walt Whitman.
Endpapers (quote by Clarence Day)
From Clarence Day (1920). “The story of the Yale University Press told by a friend”2
Table of Contents (partial)
Those old lunes! or, Which is the madman? / by William Gilmore Simms
Beneath the walls of Carthage / by Gustave Flaubert
The war of the worlds / by H.G. Wells
Madame Tellier's establishment / by Guy de Maupassant
The diamond lens / by Fitz-James O'Brien
The man without a country / by Edward Everett Hale
Sergeant Limeburner / by John Cheever
For the love of a man / by Jack London
The gift of the Magi / by O. Henry
Undertaker song / by Damon Runyon
Little Sir Hercules / by Aldous Huxley
A letter from the queen / by Sinclair Lewis
The secret life of Walter Mitty / by James Thurber
Doctor Abraham / by W. Somerset Maugham
If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg / by Winston Churchill
Torture / by T.E. Lawrence
The electrician / by Carl Van Doren
The United States are essentially the greatest poem / by Walt Whitman
Macy, George, and George Macy. A Soldier’s Reader : A Volume Containing Four Hundred Thousand Words of Select Literary Entertainment for the American Soldier on the Ground or in the Air. New York: Heritage Press, 1943.
The story of the Yale University Press told by a friend : Day, Clarence, 1874-1935. Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive