STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT PREMIUM COLLECTION: 20 SHORT STORIES & NOVELS + 37 POEMS ("The Devil and Daniel Webster", "By the Waters of Babylon", "The King of ... many more...) (Timeless Wisdom Collection)

This volume is the most complete collection of works by Stephen Vincent Benét in the market.
We have included 20 stories, including his novel “Young People’s Pride”; and the very famous short stories “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, “By the Waters of Babylon”, “The King of the Cats” and “The Sobbin' Women,” made into a film under the title Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in 1954.
We have also included 35 individual poems, divided in two books; as well as the book of poems “John Brown’s Body”, one of his most famous works and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 (included in Life Magazine's list as one of the 100 outstanding books of 1924-1944).

This is the list of short stories included:


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PART ONE
SHORT STORIES

Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds
1. THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER
2. DANIEL WEBSTER AND THE SEA SERPENT
3. BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
4. THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS
5. THE KING OF THE CATS
6. A STORY BY ANGELA POE
7. THE TREASURE OF VASCO GOMEZ
8. THE CURFEW TOLLS
9. THE SOBBIN' WOMEN
10. GLAMOUR
11. EVERYBODY WAS VERY NICE
12. A DEATH IN THE COUNTRY
13. BLOSSOM AND FRUIT


TALES BEFORE MIDNIGHT (1939)
14. JOHNNY PYE AND THE FOOL-KILLER
15. O'HALLORAN'S LUCK
16. JACOB AND THE INDIANS
17. THE DIE-HARD
18. DOC MELLHORN AND THE PEARLY GATES
19. THE STORY ABOUT THE ANTEATER

The following is the list of poems included:

JOHN BROWN'S BODY

YOUNG ADVENTURE
A Book of Poems
1. The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun
2. Rain after a Vaudeville Show
3. The City Revisited
4. Going Back to School
5. Nos Immortales
6. Young Blood
7. The Quality of Courage
8. Campus Sonnets:
9. Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua
10. The Breaking Point
11. Lonely Burial
12. Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room
13. The Hemp
14. Poor Devil!
15. Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum
16. The White Peacock
17. Colors
18. A Minor Poet
19. The Lover in Hell
20. Winged Man
21. Music
22. The Innovator
23. Love in Twilight
24. The Fiddling Wood
25. Portrait of a Boy
26. Portrait of a Baby
27. The General Public
28. Road and Hills
29. Elegy for an Enemy

NIGHTMARE AT NOON & OTHER POEMS
1. Nightmare At Noon
2. The Song.
3. Drinking the yellow wine!
4. And dear, forgotten Spring.
5. The Growing of the Hemp.
6. The Using of the Hemp.
7. The Mountain Whippoorwill