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Robert Gorham Davis (1908–1998)

Author of Ten Modern Masters: An Anthology of the Short Story

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Works by Robert Gorham Davis

Ten Modern Masters: An Anthology of the Short Story (1953) — Editor — 75 copies

Ten masters of the modern essay: Forster, Lawrence, Huxley, Graves, White, Orwell, Auden, McCarthy, Baldwin [and] Gold (1966) 21 copies

C. P. Snow (1965) 5 copies

Short Stories Oscar Wilde Easton Press 100 Greatest Books 5 copies

John Dos Passos (1962) 4 copies

New York Times Book Review 1 copy

Ten Masters of The Modern Essay 1 copy

Associated Works

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) — Introduction, some editions — 40,939 copies, 639 reviews

A Clockwork Orange [Norton Critical Edition] (2010) — Contributor — 916 copies, 9 reviews

55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940 to 1950 (1949) — Contributor — 62 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Davis, Robert Gorham
Birthdate: 1908
Date of death: 1998-07-16
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Place of death: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Education: Harvard College
Occupations: professor emeritus (English)
literary critic
editor
short-story writer
Relationships: Davis, Hope Hale (wife)
Organizations: Columbia University
Smith College

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Thomas Mann Contributor

Sherwood Anderson Contributor

Katherine Mansfield Contributor

Frank O'Connor Contributor

Ernest Hemingway Contributor

James Joyce Contributor

Eudora Welty Contributor

Anton Chekhov Contributor

Statistics

Works: 7
Also by: 3
Members: 112
Popularity: #174,306
Rating: 4.0

ISBNs: 4

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