Philip Van Doren Stern fu un autore e redattore americano, noto per il suo racconto "Il dono più grande", che ispirò il classico film "La vita è meravigliosa". Fu uno stimato storico della Guerra Civile, autore e curatore di oltre 40 libri che gli studiosi definirono "autorevoli". Come redattore, curò e annotò raccolte di racconti e gli scritti di figure come Abraham Lincoln, Edgar Allan Poe e Henry David Thoreau. Durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, gestì la produzione di libri tascabili per il personale militare.
"Historians typically regard the British Empire as a state project aided by corporations. Philip Stern turns this view on its head, arguing that corporations drove colonial expansion and governance, creating an overlap between sovereign and commercial power that continues to shape the relationship between nations and corporations to this day"-- Provided by publisher
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Kniha se zabývá osobními detaily a podrobnostmi toho, jaký byl Sinatra v každodenním životě. Lásky a zlomená srdce, nenucené sebevědomí a prudká elegance, kamarádství a vůdcovství, pijáctví a výtržnictví a především roztáčení večírků... Všechny tyto pojmy jsou cestou k pochopení jedinečného kouzla osobnosti Franka Sinatry. Vše je doplněno desítkami klasických černobílých fotografií, z nichž většina nebyla dříve zveřejněna.
This text includes all of Poe's best-known tales and poems, with representative articles, criticism, letters and opinions.
Contentsvii Introduction (A Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories) essay by Philip Van Doren Stern1 Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer (1937) novelette by Stephen Vincent Benét95 Champion (1929) novelette by Ring W. Lardner [as by Ring Lardner]141 Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1932) short story by Conrad Aiken183 The Night the Ghost Got In (1933) short story by James Thurber
