Sixteen Famous British Plays

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Bennett Cerf, Van Henry Cartmell
Modern Library, 1942 - English drama - 1000 pages
An anthology of twentieth-century drama. For contents, see Author Catalog.

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Contents

TANQUERAY Arthur Wing Pinero
5
BEING EARNEST Oscar Wilde
69
KNOWS J M Barrie
123
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About the author (1942)

Bennett Cerf was born in 1898, in Manhattan. He was educated at Columbia University. In 1925 he acquired the Modern Library with Donald Klopfer, providing the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. A major figure of American publishing for more than four decades, Cerf died in 1971.

Bibliographic information

TitleSixteen Famous British Plays
Modern Library giants
Modern library of the world's best books
Volume 63 of Modern library
Volume 663 of The modern library of the world's best books. Modern library giants
EditorsBennett Cerf, Van Henry Cartmell
Compiled byBennett Cerf, Van Henry Cartmell
PublisherModern Library, 1942
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedJan 16, 2009
ISBN0884112659, 9780884112655
Length1000 pages
  
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