Monday, October 23, 2006
Nobel Prize Library
This work on winners of the Nobel Prize in literature was published in 20 volumes by Alexis Gregory, New York, in 1971. At least, I think it's 20 volumes. It has tables of contents on for the individual volumes, and those lack volume numbers. When a search of the Library of Congress on-line catalog did not include all the volumes, I decided to prepare a list from my set and whatever information I could find. The print set includes, for each laureate, the presentation address, any acceptance speech, a work of the laureate significant to the judge's decision, bibliography, and a brief explanation of the reasons for the laureate's selection. For this post, I've linked to the Nobel Foundation's information on each one.
1. S. Y. Agnon, Ivo Andric
2. Miguel Angel Asturias, Jacinto Benavente, Henri Bergson
3. Samuel Beckett, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Pearl Buck, Ivan Bunin
4. Albert Camus, Winston Churchill
5. Giosue Carducci, Grazia Deledda, Jose Echegaray, T. S. Eliot
6. Rudolf Eucken, Anatole France, John Galsworthy
7. Andre Gide, Karl Gjellerup, Paul Heyse
8. Gerhaupt Hauptmann, Verner von Heidenstam, Johannes V. Jensen
9. Halldor Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann
10. Francois Mauriac, Frederic Mistral, Theodor Mommsen
11. Roger Martin du Gard, Gabriela Mistral, Boris Pasternak
12. Ladislas Reymont, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell
13. Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Rene Sully-Prudhomme
14. Giorgos Seferis, Mikhail Sholokhov, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Carl Spitteler
15. St.-John Perse, Liugi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo
16. William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck
17. Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse
18. Yasunari Kawabata, Rudyard Kipling, Sinclair Lewis
19. Juan Ramon Jimenez, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Par Lagerkvist, Selma Lagerlof
20. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset, William Butler Yeats
I'm posting the list now as part of a housecleaning. My study is overflowing with books and something has to go. I've decided it will be works that are substantially available for reference on line. Doing that with this set emptied a shelf, and I can get a stack or two of books off the floor. The set I'll donate to the local library Friends for their resale fundraising. ¶ 10/23/2006 05:16:00 PM
1. S. Y. Agnon, Ivo Andric
2. Miguel Angel Asturias, Jacinto Benavente, Henri Bergson
3. Samuel Beckett, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Pearl Buck, Ivan Bunin
4. Albert Camus, Winston Churchill
5. Giosue Carducci, Grazia Deledda, Jose Echegaray, T. S. Eliot
6. Rudolf Eucken, Anatole France, John Galsworthy
7. Andre Gide, Karl Gjellerup, Paul Heyse
8. Gerhaupt Hauptmann, Verner von Heidenstam, Johannes V. Jensen
9. Halldor Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann
10. Francois Mauriac, Frederic Mistral, Theodor Mommsen
11. Roger Martin du Gard, Gabriela Mistral, Boris Pasternak
12. Ladislas Reymont, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell
13. Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Rene Sully-Prudhomme
14. Giorgos Seferis, Mikhail Sholokhov, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Carl Spitteler
15. St.-John Perse, Liugi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo
16. William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck
17. Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse
18. Yasunari Kawabata, Rudyard Kipling, Sinclair Lewis
19. Juan Ramon Jimenez, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Par Lagerkvist, Selma Lagerlof
20. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset, William Butler Yeats
I'm posting the list now as part of a housecleaning. My study is overflowing with books and something has to go. I've decided it will be works that are substantially available for reference on line. Doing that with this set emptied a shelf, and I can get a stack or two of books off the floor. The set I'll donate to the local library Friends for their resale fundraising. ¶ 10/23/2006 05:16:00 PM
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Are these books still available? I have 7 volumes and I'd like to get the whole set.
My E-Mail address is as follows.
JoeyTheer@Bellsouth.net
Thank you.
Sincerely, Joe Theer
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My E-Mail address is as follows.
JoeyTheer@Bellsouth.net
Thank you.
Sincerely, Joe Theer
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