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Great Stories by Nobel Winners

ISBN 9780001000520 Rupa Pubs., ed. Leo Hamalian and Edmond L Volpe Copyright The Noonday Press 1959 The ones I found impressive were: Selma Lagerlof (The Outlaws) Henrik Pontoppidan (A Fisher Nest) [especially for its depiction of barbaric customs belonging to antiquity, in its opening pages] W B Yeats (The Crucifixion of the Outcast) Wladyslaw Reymont (Death) [the squabbling amongst relatives for the even meagre material possessions of those at final rest makes for grimacing reading] G B Shaw (The Miraculous Revenge) Grazia Deledda (The Sardinian Fox) Sinclair Lewis (What That Kind Of Mush Gets You) Johannes V Jensen (Lost Forests) Herman Hesse (Within And Without) Par Lagerkvist (The Lift That Went Down Into Hell) Haldor Laxness (Lily) [Nebuchadnezzar] Albert Camus (The Guest) Boris Pasternak (Ill Tratto de Apelle)